Sadiq Khan hails ‘huge progress’ as progress report finds more than 95% of vehicles are now compliant
The cars have just moved to other areas of the UK. Dealers are using forecourts up north to sell second hand vehicles sold due to ULEZ expansion.
Ulez expansion: 45% fewer ‘dirty’ vehicles now on London’s roads, says TfL
Submitted 1 year ago by HeartyBeast@kbin.social to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/31/ulez-expansion-london-roads-tfl-sadiq-khan
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dnnybrks@lemmy.world 1 year ago
lmaydev@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Surely that’s the plan? To reduce pollution in London.
HeartyBeast@kbin.social 1 year ago
Other cities with similar pollution problems know what to do then. However London's particulate concentrations are pretty unique, from what I recall.
kokesh@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This is 🐂 💩. Poor Alex had to sell his X5.
luves2spooge@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah, but now he’s got big Pete
kokesh@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Baaa, he got Cayenne because of that first. And that one was 💩.
bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Are those vehicles off the road though? Or have they just moved?
lmaydev@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It says off London roads. Which they indeed are.
London has an awful pollution problem because of its density.
The idea is to get them away from London which is what’s happening.
bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Me neither
The TfL director of strategy and policy, Christina Calderato, said the figures showed that the Ulez was “highly effective in taking the oldest, most polluting vehicles off the roads”.
Problem moved, not problem solved. Nimbyism.
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 1 year ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The number of the most polluting vehicles driven in London has fallen by almost half since the capital’s ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) was expanded, taking almost 80,000 older cars off the roads.
About 77,000, or 45%, fewer non-compliant cars and vans were detected on average a day in September, the first month of operation of the expanded zone – compared with June 2023.
TfL and Khan have said any net revenue raised through the Ulez will be reinvested into public transport, including the expansion of bus services in outer London.
Rishi Sunak’s government has used the expansion of Ulez to attack political opponents over what it has called “Labour’s war on motorists”, part of a battle against green policies it hopes could prove popular with voters.
The TfL director of strategy and policy, Christina Calderato, said the figures showed that the Ulez was “highly effective in taking the oldest, most polluting vehicles off the roads”.
Analysis of how much the expanded Ulez has affected air pollution in the capital is due to be published after six months of operation, with the data collected from 150 monitoring stations over a longer term to allow for factors such as weather.
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seacocker@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Surely everyone knew it would cut pollution, just many people don’t give a shite about it.