Chappers
Friday 1st September 2023 11:02pm
Surrey
35,726 posts
Quote: billwill @ 31st August 2023, 7:14 PM
It affects far more than 10% of the cars registered as being kept in London, that 10% figure is the dodgy data of the mayor's men, data recorded by just 160 cameras placed ONLY on the main roads in & out of London. I.e it didn't really account for all the inter-area visits where the outer occupants use car for things like local shopping & taking kids to school etc, which are probably the bulk of the actual real trips in outer London and which occur because the bus services in outer London are far more sparse than inner London and many routes were cut recently.
The £2000 assistance is only available to those on benefits, but existing owners of non-compliant vehicles, probably have old cars which are worth around £500 whereas the (in short supply) compliant second hand cars typically cost over £8000. They can't afford their gas & electricity, rent & food bills, let alone find another £6000 to buy a compliant vehicle.
I don't know what pollution scale Khan uses but I daily look at the MET OFFICE daily forcasts and I've never seen their pollution tag read obove L for Low.
Read the court cases: for more info on the ULEZ situation, see these BBC articles.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=ULEZ+Court&d=news_ps&seqId=fee6ef20-4705-11ee-ac80-f39600994dad
Or going to the Royal Marsden Cancer Hospital in Belmont.