Apologies if this has been posted before.
As most of you will know, there is a proposal to extend the London ULEZ zone outward towards the M25 Boundary in 2023.
Below is a link to the not-well-publicised, TFL consultation, ending on 29 July. This will take about 5 minutes to complete:
https://haveyoursay.tfl.gov.uk/cleanair?cid=clean-air
... and here is a link to a petition, which will take 5 seconds to register your disapproval (if you disapprove).
https://www.change.org/p/stop-sadiq-khan-expanding-the-ulez-to-all-the-london-borough-2023
In many European countries, a vehicle 25 years or older counts as a classic. Here, in the UK, the rolling system stalled between 1997 and 2014 and so now requires a car 40 years or older to be a 'classic' and these don't pay road-tax or ULEZ. I have a couple of vehicles that are around 25 years old and which are used infrequently. However, I don't really want to pay £12.50 every time I come out of the front drive and I imagine there are probably many others with similarly old, well-maintained vehicles, that would be affected by this ULEZ expansion. It doesn't make sense to scrap such vehicles and even according to TFL's own estimates the 50,000 affected vehicles will have a very minor impact on CO2 and NOx. In fact, domestic central heating boilers in the London area account for more NOx than road transport (GLA report 2018). Even if you don't live in London, the outcome of the expansion will mean it will spread further to other towns and cities near you. Electric vehicles may have low tail-pipe emissions, but they are not green in manufacture, in their eventual disposal (LiON batteries), and not all the power they consume comes from green sources. This is probably a path towards Road Pricing, according to where you are driving, the time of day and distance, since the government revenue from Fuel Duty will decline significantly this decade, and they will need to find alternatives to fill the gap.
Anyway, please use the above links and have your say.
As most of you will know, there is a proposal to extend the London ULEZ zone outward towards the M25 Boundary in 2023.
Below is a link to the not-well-publicised, TFL consultation, ending on 29 July. This will take about 5 minutes to complete:
https://haveyoursay.tfl.gov.uk/cleanair?cid=clean-air
... and here is a link to a petition, which will take 5 seconds to register your disapproval (if you disapprove).
https://www.change.org/p/stop-sadiq-khan-expanding-the-ulez-to-all-the-london-borough-2023
In many European countries, a vehicle 25 years or older counts as a classic. Here, in the UK, the rolling system stalled between 1997 and 2014 and so now requires a car 40 years or older to be a 'classic' and these don't pay road-tax or ULEZ. I have a couple of vehicles that are around 25 years old and which are used infrequently. However, I don't really want to pay £12.50 every time I come out of the front drive and I imagine there are probably many others with similarly old, well-maintained vehicles, that would be affected by this ULEZ expansion. It doesn't make sense to scrap such vehicles and even according to TFL's own estimates the 50,000 affected vehicles will have a very minor impact on CO2 and NOx. In fact, domestic central heating boilers in the London area account for more NOx than road transport (GLA report 2018). Even if you don't live in London, the outcome of the expansion will mean it will spread further to other towns and cities near you. Electric vehicles may have low tail-pipe emissions, but they are not green in manufacture, in their eventual disposal (LiON batteries), and not all the power they consume comes from green sources. This is probably a path towards Road Pricing, according to where you are driving, the time of day and distance, since the government revenue from Fuel Duty will decline significantly this decade, and they will need to find alternatives to fill the gap.
Anyway, please use the above links and have your say.
