Expanded ULEZ

[carmanmemoranda]

you are driving an HGV at 45mph on a single carriage way with no street lights and no speed limit signs. You are in Scotland. Speeding or not speeding?

So you accept you were very ambiguous before?

Give up.

 

[securespark]

Regardless. There is always a speed limit in force.

Not when the A555 was built there wasn't.

There may have been signs up, but no-one had completed the basic paperwork to say what that limit should be, hence there wasn't one.

 

[Roy Bloom]

My point is that it IS a tax if it is a charge without providing a service. Otherwise it's a charge/fee.

The 1999 Transport Act gave LA the authority to charge for road use.

 

[Roy Bloom]

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Anyway back on topic - that is a hell of a lot of broken cameras (black)

And one person has been bailed to appear in court next year.
I suspect there will be more before long.

 

[Brigadier]

Will any of it, ULEZ in general, actually improve the air quality in London?

It could have lung nectar for air, and still not be as sweet as sunny Staffs.

Nuff said.

 

[motorbiking]

So you accept you were very ambiguous before?

Give up.

There was nothing ambiguous- you just keep dodging the fact that you were wrong to say the Highway Code is law.

Which is nonsense of course.

 

[carmanmemoranda]

There was nothing ambiguous- you just keep dodging the fact that you were wrong to say the Highway Code is law.

Which is nonsense of course.

Hmm, for a supposed legal bod your wording and interpretation is poor.

Would you like to point out where I said it is law?

 

[Ihavenojob]

Don't worry, the Essex knuckle draggers will get in on the act...

Probably already at it, just don't want to sh1t on their own doorstep.

 

[Roy Bloom]

Will any of it, ULEZ in general, actually improve the air quality in London?

The published evidence shows clearly that concentrations of air pollution have declined across London due to the ULEZ, but remain above the safe limits set by the World Health Organization.

The truth about London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment

As London prepares for the expansion next week of the Ultra Low Emission Zone, Bob Ward dispels the myths around this policy, explaining its origins, the thinking behind the expansion and the links between air pollution and health.

www.lse.ac.uk

Which indicates that Khan is correct in taking additional measures.
Something else needs to be done.
The discussion should be about what else can be done, not dismissing that which is being done because some disagree with it.

 

[Trazor]

The UK produces 2% of the worlds pollution.

We will pay through the nose for gesture policies, whilst the rest of the world will carry on destroying the planet.

 

[Roy Bloom]

The UK produces 2% of the worlds pollution.

We will pay through the nose for gesture policies, whilst the rest of the world will carry on destroying the planet.

And that pollution kills about 40,000 peo[;e each year.

So what, let's do nothing.

 

[ellal]

Probably already at it, just don't want to sh1t on their own doorstep.

They will spaff on their own home ground though...

TOWIE - Those Obnoxious W*nkers In Essex!

 

[ellal]

And that pollution kills about 40,000 peo[;e each year.

So what, let's do nothing.

Except it's ok to jail ordinary people for years who simply point out the absurdity of the claim that the UK is a 'green country' whilst the UK issues new oil/gas drilling licences...

And then penalises other ordinary (mainly poorer) people for using those fossil fuels that have been licensed!

So who is doing nothing, and who is paying for it?

 

[motorbiking]

And that pollution kills about 40,000 peo[;e each year.

So what, let's do nothing.

So the Ulez expansion will stop those deaths will it? All that’s happening is cameras are removed, old cars are sold up north and people drive elsewhere. Business suffers and net emissions probably stay the same after accounting for the drop that was happening anyway. The only reason khan has done it now is because the opportunity will be gone in a few years.

 

[ellal]

Business suffers and net emissions probably stay the same after accounting for the drop that was happening anyway.

Small businesses will suffer...

Big business will then step in!

And how come whilst this is happening there is airport expansion?