Sadiq Khan’s Ulez expansion to outer London failed to lower pollution levels, a report has found. The Telegraph has the story.
Bromley Council measured no “overall lowering in pollution” in the months after the Mayor expanded his £12.50 daily charge zone to cover the whole city last year.
The partly rural borough, which is the largest in London, saw pollutants emitted by vehicles increase after the charge was imposed on August 29th 2023, a report by the council’s environment committee said in June.
It found that in November last year, three months after the Ulez expansion, levels of pollutant nitrogen dioxide were higher across all the borough’s 32 air quality monitoring locations than they were in the preceding August.
The increase was blamed on “seasonal weather and temperature variations” and only eight of the locations saw more nitrogen dioxide in December 2023 than in August that year.
However, when comparing the data with 2022, the report concluded: “What cannot be seen at present is an overall lowering in pollution levels that can be directly attributed to the implementation of Ulez in outer London.”
The report added that the pollution levels in 2022 it compared its recent data with may have been artificially suppressed by the after-effects of Covid restrictions. The last major pandemic restrictions on travel were removed in July 2021.
It comes as City Hall maintains its own research, released in July measuring the success of the Ulez expansion in reducing air pollution, proves the scheme is working “even better than expected”.
The report measuring pollution across the capital released by the mayor’s office claimed that exhaust emissions from cars in outer London were estimated to be 22% lower than without last year’s expansion.
Worth reading in full.
In other news, Transport for London (TfL) has been forced to issue an apology after using “made-up” data inflated tenfold to justify a multi-million pound upgrade to a major roundabout.
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Quelle surprise!
But, of course, this is the lesser problem. This rampant child abuse has created massive problems in terms of the deprivation of social contact and induction of mental illness.
A friend’s son is repeating his second year of a computer science degree because he couldn’t cope with the on-line aspects (and he is a computer specialist).
On line teaching doesn’t suit everyone. I agree there is too much computer in our lives. However, I do think the classroom has been a hotbed of group think too, which is highly dangerous, as we have seen.
Interestingly my four year old grandsons phoneticswent up 3 levels in the eight weeks his mum and I were homeschooling him. We’re thinking of making it permanent
I totally agree. My granddaughter was really struggling with understanding numbers. An hour a day for a couple of weeks and she is now flying. She is also asking many questions about everyday situations that require number skills. My daughter has already talked to other mums locally a out home schooling.
Lock ’em up.
Politicians, headmasters et.al.
Indulging in generalized fantasy doesn’t actually help credibility.
All part of the plan to make Western economies non-competitive going forward.
“China’s Belt and Road Initiative, in seeking to connect China to Central Asia, and eventually to Europe, will have the practical significance of shifting the world centre of gravity from the Atlantic (ie the USA and he might mean the UK as well) to the Pacific (ie China)
…….and will involve the cultures of Eurasia, each of who will have to decide what relationship to this region they will seek, and so will the United States. This is why many of us urged the United States to join the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank when it was proposed by China”
Henry Kissinger, Banking Conference, China, 2017
So the final stages of power shifting to China are underway. Russia is part of this. Australia and NZ are in the region too, hence all the ultra draconian programming there, to get people accustomed to the new world which will be fronted by a dominant Communist China but behind the scenes the existing power network will maintain its position. Israel is also a player in this via its dominant role in the tech sector and ‘smart cities’ agenda and its close relationship with Russia and China. Who knows which direction the UK will go in but they obviously have plans for the UK. It looks like the UK’s role will be as some kind of test-bed for the latest gadgets and methods of tyranny.
There is certainly an argument to be made that China, with globalist help, has already fought and won World War 3.
Depends what you mean by learning. Children will have learned a hell of a lot by default from this past year, not least the stupidity of mankind, the frailty of politics, of science and of society in general. That’s some footing upon which to build their futures. Forewarned is forearmed!
Let’s hope they have learned not to trust institutions too. We need a complete dusting down of the woke, group think, revolving door of upper middle class badly educated globalist bag carriers.
What do the government or teaching profession call learning? Indoctrination against their future??
In my small experience of families I live close too, the teenagers actually say hello in the morning instead of grunting, they seem lost but not angry too.
I think many smaller children have enjoyed the reconnection with family life and small pleasures like gardening, walking and even cooking. I do not count cycling in this as I notice in my very mixed community only the wealthier have cycles. The rest have legs with feet on the end.
Education is reading, writing, politeness, manners, respecting those around you, understanding the environment you live in and most of all critical thinking. All of which is not learned at school but by being involved with family and community.