Sadiq Khan has boasted about the “incredible difference” made by the expansion of London’s Ultra-Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) last October, in spite of the fact that data from Transport for London shows it made almost no impact on emissions in the capital. MailOnline has more.
The expansion of the London Ultra-Low Emission Zone last October has failed to dramatically accelerate a reduction in harmful emissions in the capital, an official report from Transport for London has shown.
It shows that extending the zone from the most central part of the capital all the way to the North and South Circular roads last year has not had an impact on nitrogen dioxide or particulate matter emissions across London, when comparing data for the second quarter of this year and the same period in 2021.
Despite the revelation, Mayor Sadiq Khan said the expansion of the ULEZ had made an “incredible difference” in the capital as he continues to press ahead with plans for a further extension next year.
He cited its success on Transport for London figures claiming that around 124,000 driven within the North and South Circular roads before October were not compliant with ULEZ but by the end of June this year that average had fallen to 67,000.
London’s ULEZ was extended on 25 October to 18 times its original size.
The boundary for the zone grew from the same coverage area of central London (the smaller section outlined in red in the image about) where the Congestion Charge Zone is enforced to – though not including – the North and South Circular roads – referred to as inner London (the larger red boundary on the map above).
The move created a far larger catchment area where many ordinary households live compared to the centre’s more limited and highly-expensive residential zones, as part of Mr Khan’s efforts to reduce air pollution levels in the capital.
Drivers are charged £12.50-a-day to use non-compliant older cars at any time of day or night, 364 days per year (Christmas Day is the only exception). There is no residents’ discount.
In the ULEZ expansion six-month report published this week, TfL said that more vehicles driven within the zone are compliant with the emission rules than before the extension was put in place.
Before October, 85% of vehicles driven within the North and South Circular roads were compliant with ULEZ requirements.
Once the extension was enforced from 25 October, that figure has grown to 94%, it said.
TfL reported that traffic volumes had also declined by two per cent, with around 21,000 fewer motors on the capital’s road on an average day.
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Now watch the North & South Circulars clog up, and INCREASE real pollution.
Also, in one fell swoop, and in the midst of a cost-of-living crisis, he’s added £62.50/week (£250/month) to workers’ who have to travel by car and tradesmens’ costs.
Somebody tell Sadiq that Global Warming ended three days ago.
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It has been successful in increasing his revenue – a transfer of wealth from probably the poorer sections of the people who live and work in the area to his coffers.
And it might support the second hand value of some cars.
I was chatting to a friend recently about the war on cars – she’s a typical ex-BBC employee now in ‘PR and communications’ so that automatically puts her in the ‘climate crisis’ cult and she loftily announced “We don’t need car ownership anyway, people can just rent them if they need them.”
I asked her how someone like my friend who lives in a village with no buses and has to commute to the local city hospital to be an A&E nurse is going to be able to get to work so she can earn a living and feed her family. I asked her how it’s financially viable for some of my freelance musician friends to do a gig for £120 but lose most of that in car hire charges. She didn’t have an answer. The bourgeoise cognitive dissonance was deafening and bordering on brain damaged. What was most depressing of all was this is precisely how nearly all of our politicians think now, either through naked corruption and lies like our robber baron Sadiq here or just bovine virtue signalling imbecility.
So only the wealthy get to drive and earn a living basically. Until they’re not of course and we’re all equally bankrupt and reduced to collecting our digital ‘living wage’ from a WEF led centralised global political cartel of billionaire looters.
Excellent post.
Don’t forget:
You will own nothing and be happy.
Wherever Sadiq Khan is in the ULEZ, he and his cronies are never far from Barking…
I’m surprised Khan hasn’t announced the creation of a safe space for illegal dinghy folk. Fill up your city with useful idiots who’ll vote for you and Roberts your dad’s brother.
Remind yourself of the story about the scorpion and the frog.
Londoners have got what they voted for.
The rest of the country needs to wake up and stop voting for Socialist-Eco Loons. And that includes the ones who pretend to be Conservatives.
ULEZ is a joke. A friend of mine had to give up his car when the new zone was introduced, which he occasionally used to take his elderly mother shopping. It took green fuel but did not meet the EU specification on which the threshold for charging is based. With ULEZ expansion I might have been in the same boat but my own vehicle is just within the regulations. Khan is an idiot who has proven time and again his unfitness for the job of Mayor of London. I am not being partisan here, there are good and bad Mayors of all parties. Without the Labour label in an election Khan standing on his record and “achievements” would surely lose his deposit.
Wow!! Labour politician lies in the face of contrary evidence. There must be a y in the day.