As ULEZ areas expand, more and more people will pay the cost. With the geographic scope of the Ultra Low Emission Zone scheme set to grow at the end of August, business owners in places like Essex are worried about the economic impact.
In a bid to limit pollution, non-conforming cars are subject to a £12.50 daily charge to enter ULEZ zones. Residents and business owners are sharply divided on the costs and benefits of the policy championed by London Mayor Sadiq Khan.
The BBC has the story.
The current zone runs inside the north and south circular but on 29 August London Mayor Sadiq Khan is set to expand its borders out to the M25.
It means vehicles which do not meet the standard – usually petrol cars and vans registered before 2006 – will have to pay the charge if they drive anywhere within the zone. …
Michael Pegler, of Pegler Removals of Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, said: “The impact of us of ULEZ is going to be pretty large. Retention of staff is a massive problem.
“We have staff [that live in the zone] who cannot afford to upgrade their vehicles. There’s a good chance of us losing three or four staff who have been with us for years.”
He said if the scheme was phased in over two years “it wouldn’t be a problem”. …
Jon Fuller, of south east Essex Friends of the Earth and lives in Southend, said ULEZ was vital in the fight for cleaner air.
“There is a major health crisis and we have to tackle it. Tackling climate change and toxic air are not going to be easy, but we have to do this for the young,” he said.
“We have to do it because people are dying. We have to get on with it and we also have to do it outside London in areas like Southend, Chelmsford, Colchester and Harlow.”
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I wonder if Jon Fuller appreciates that people die every day from a many and varied causes, but it is not the job of the government, local or central, to try and impose poorly planned and thought out solutions to save anyone. Haven’t we just done this for three years and found it sadly wanting.?
Jon Fuller presumable lives and works in Southend, with buses cycle tracks and footpaths. good for him. For us who have to travel as a matter of necessity, ULEZ’s are going to be an extra hurdle to bridge. I am very fed up of people exclaiming that people are dying because of this or that, we are all going to die some day regardless of the proclamations to the contrary if you do AB & C you will avoid a preventable death, the truth is far from it.
Death is unavoidable, get used to the idea and live a bit before you do actually die naturally, not slowly suffocating underneath mountains of virtuous slurry.
“virtuous slurry” is a very apt description.
The implication seems to be from activists that for want of human activity, people would live forever. Everybody likes clean air, but the claimed crises from particulate emissions have never materialised in mortality and life expectancy figures, which have steadily decreased and increased respectively since before the beginning of the industrial age.
Do we need any further proof that the US travel ban has nothing to do with a virus? And do we also need further proof that the HHS secretary thinks everyone has sh*t for brains so they’ll believe one iota of BS that he spouts? Beyond ludicrous this..
”The truth is the US has not lifted the travel ban. It is still in place without expiration, and will only be terminated by President Biden upon recommendation by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Hope in that respect is grim for both citizens and noncitizens harmed and kept apart from loved ones by the restriction.
HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra testified before the House of Representatives on March 28th that “the actions that our Administration is taking with regard to American citizens is to protect them as best possible against covid. The actions we take with regard to those trying to enter the country are somewhat similar, but there are some differences because these are folks who are asking for permission to come into the U.S.” Representative Claudia Tenney (R-NY) asked if the decision to not lift vaccine mandates was political, to which Secretary Becerra responded that the mandates, including the travel restrictions, are “based on science and the evidence.”
To make this abundantly clear for the public: Presidential Proclamation 10294 requiring non-citizen non-immigrants be vaccinated to enter the US will only end if President Biden rescinds it, Congress repeals it, or the Judiciary strikes it down. To date, no lawsuits have been filed challenging the ban on foreign visitors.”
https://brownstone.org/articles/us-travel-restrictions-remain-in-place/
All I can say is that I hope the day Biden finally goes, of natural causes of course, he does so in a pile of his own excrement, terrified and full of regrets over his life.
He is using the awesome power of the office of the president to do the bidding of a pharma crime cartel. He’s a truly evil human being.
Ulez is awful. It’s more environmentaly friendly to keep an old car going than to scrap and replace, but ULEZ prioritises replacement.
“Friends of the Earth” have no expertise in climatology. They should also be forced to account for the damage resulting from a mass shift to zero carbon, or else acknowledge their bias.
Activist opinions are already compromised, and we already know the Beeb are uncritical of anything they already agree with.
Perhaps a new organisation “Enemies of Friends of the Earth”…
He said if the scheme was phased in over two years “it wouldn’t be a problem”. …
Bo****ks – It is a problem when ever it is “phased in”.
“No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated. Neither may a government determine the aesthetic value of artistic creations, nor limit the forms of literacy or artistic expression. Nor should it pronounce on the validity of economic, historic, religious, or philosophical doctrines. Instead it has a duty to its citizens to maintain the freedom, to let those citizens contribute to the further adventure and the development of the human race.” – R. Feynman
“ULEZ is expanding.”
Could we not have a bit more outrage, a touch more vitriol? Ghettoisation moves closer still and the most negative phrase is…
” business owners in places like Essex are worried about the economic impact.”
We are in the fight of our lives and DS quotes the BBC and an F o E idiot who tells us “people are dying,” – Oh F. Off.
The air in this country is cleaner than it has ever been and yet we have to tackle “climate change.”
Breaking news – climate change goes with the planet.
Climate Crisis is an impossibility.
Once again can we stick to our own vocabulary and stop ceding the language to the oppressors?
I think, Huxley, that the reason the vitriol hasn’t kicked in, like the Yellow Jackets in France, is that there isn’t a focal point, a flag for us to rally round. People are seeing this stuff as individuals, being concerned as individuals, not as a group. The level of propaganda is making people feel like THEY are the outcast with the weird thoughts when they are not. The time will come when people everywhere will become the resistance, but they need to know they are not alone.
If you want to see a real commerce contraction, wait until business owners realise their market will shrunk dramatically as a result of the 15 minute city lunacy.
There is a major health crisis and we have to tackle it. Tackling climate change and toxic air are not going to be easy, but we have to do this for the young,
Bullshit alert. We have to do this for some people who didn’t ask for it because … well … they haven’t really been born yet but if they had been born, they would doubtlessly agree!
Plain English version: I’m really afraid of toxic air. Something must be urgently done about it! And remember: I don’t believe in chemtrails. That’s a Conspiracy Theory!!
I wonder if Jon Fuller understands that charging poorer people a daily tax to drive their cars won’t do anything to clean up the air …. unless it forces them to give up their jobs and live poorer lives as a result, which will impact not just the individual but also their families, the local economy and wider society.
And that all the studies show that poverty reduces life expectancy and kills.
Or is that all a bit too much for the Eco Nutter to comprehend?
Expanded ULEZ is just a money-making scam for TfL.
“The BBC has the story.”
I had to literally force myself to read on past that point. What I got was pretty much as anticipated.
Exactly!
Climate change actions are always extreme and their forecasts end of the world. This has been the case for over 50 years. This extremism will ultimately doom these extreme policies as they are more damaging than any pollution problems.