It’s blatantly a money making scheme wrapped inside an environmental agenda. My wagon is Euro 5 so there is a charge of £100 per day to enter London. If it was genuinely about lowering emissions and caring for the environment, then why not just simply ban Euro 5 and below from entering full stop?
So no it has nothing to do with emissions and all to do with raising income.
Carryfast:
The ULEZ argument is more about the principle of London’s local government being imposed where it doesn’t belong.Khans remit should be pushed back to the previous LCC boundary line.He has no mandate in the affected Boroughs.
Sorry, I should have been clearer: As a born-and-bred northerner, my only interest in London involves getting to gigs, the Natural History Museum, National War Museum and other events.
Having lived through the era of the Thatcherite-junta, seeing the North getting commercially anally-raped while those Darn Sarf thought the sun shined out of her pudenda and she could do no wrong…
It’s not such a laughing matter when the boot is on the other foot is it?
GOT was right, The North does remember.
msgyorkie:
It’s blatantly a money making scheme wrapped inside an environmental agenda. My wagon is Euro 5 so there is a charge of £100 per day to enter London. If it was genuinely about lowering emissions and caring for the environment, then why not just simply ban Euro 5 and below from entering full stop?
So no it has nothing to do with emissions and all to do with raising income.
Totally agree if you don’t meet the standards should not be allowed in.
That’s the only way to clear the air.
Not pay us and you can pollute the air as much as you like
Zac_A:
Carryfast:
The ULEZ argument is more about the principle of London’s local government being imposed where it doesn’t belong.Khans remit should be pushed back to the previous LCC boundary line.He has no mandate in the affected Boroughs.Sorry, I should have been clearer: As a born-and-bred northerner, my only interest in London involves getting to gigs, the Natural History Museum, National War Museum and other events.
Having lived through the era of the Thatcherite-junta, seeing the North getting commercially anally-raped while those Darn Sarf thought the sun shined out of her pudenda and she could do no wrong…
It’s not such a laughing matter when the boot is on the other foot is it?
GOT was right, The North does remember.
You seem to miss the irony that Khan’s power, like Livingstone’s before him, is the result of a Tory coup over the local government process of the Home Counties.Which no Tory administration has ever chosen to reverse.
As for Thatcher she didn’t get where she was without the help of Northern votes and actions like those of the Notts miners v their Kent counterparts.
Zac_A:
There’s no point complaining about this, except to vent frustration, these schemes are coming in all over the place, Newcastle’s Clean Air Zone kicked in at the end of January. It doesn’t affect cars but truck operators need to run their registrations through the online check site to avoid surprise fines of £50 per day.
Sheffield’s CAZ starts next Monday 27th Feb & from what I’ve read 83 of Sheffield councils vehicles aren’t compliant & will be charged daily. 
lancpudn:
Zac_A:
There’s no point complaining about this, except to vent frustration, these schemes are coming in all over the place, Newcastle’s Clean Air Zone kicked in at the end of January. It doesn’t affect cars but truck operators need to run their registrations through the online check site to avoid surprise fines of £50 per day.Sheffield’s CAZ starts next Monday 27th Feb & from what I’ve read 83 of Sheffield councils vehicles aren’t compliant & will be charged daily.
Yep seem the signs when up and down the M1 near Sheffield. I live just down the road in Nottingham, I’m sure it won’t be long before we have it as our local council loves to rob us blind with pointless money making schemes!
Carryfast:
TruckerRossy:
I got to buy a new car because of that total Pratt!!
To be fair a 2007 > petrol motor isn’t exactly new or expensive to buy.Probably cheaper to buy and maintain than a < 2015 diesel.
While the populations of Kahns stolen London Boroughs seem only too happy to be Londoners rather than campaign for repeal of the London Government Act.
I live in Langley one junction away from the M25 just of the M4 in Berkshire but travel to Ealing for work. But even if I didn’t have to travel within the M25 for work I’d still have to get a new car due to living quite slide to the new expansion.
I went for a white ‘13’ plate Smart car in the end 
TruckerRossy:
Carryfast:
TruckerRossy:
I got to buy a new car because of that total Pratt!!
To be fair a 2007 > petrol motor isn’t exactly new or expensive to buy.Probably cheaper to buy and maintain than a < 2015 diesel.
While the populations of Kahns stolen London Boroughs seem only too happy to be Londoners rather than campaign for repeal of the London Government Act.I live in Langley one junction away from the M25 just of the M4 in Berkshire but travel to Ealing for work. But even if I didn’t have to travel within the M25 for work I’d still have to get a new car due to living quite slide to the new expansion.
I went for a white ‘13’ plate Smart car in the end
A 2007 3.0 litre BMW meets the regs for ULEZ.
If anyone doesn’t need to travel within Greater London ( not the M25 ) what’s the problem anyway.
Zac_A:
There’s no point complaining about this, except to vent frustration, these schemes are coming in all over the place, Newcastle’s Clean Air Zone kicked in at the end of January. It doesn’t affect cars but truck operators need to run their registrations through the online check site to avoid surprise fines of £50 per day.
They come in because people didn’t bother to object,and the vocal minority get their way, Hackney is going to block 75% of roads to cars in '25…thanks to a very vocal minority group
Kinda ridiculous how they work out what is compliant where.
3L diesel BMW 330 estate. Not allowed in London, Bristol, Birmingham.
Allowed in Bath, Bradford, Manchester, Portsmouth, Sheffield and Newcastle.
At least agree on a countrywide standard
Also bearing in mind that the Tories could remove Khan’s powers in the affected Boroughs by repealing the London Government Act and returning them to the counties they were stolen from.
Instead of which they are calling for an even greater London, including their solution to Khan’s transit tax being let’s expand zone 6 outside London’s already illegitimate boundary.Which effectively means that they are then London Boroughs.
The slimy Tories are up to their necks in backing Khan in this control freak rip off which will be continuously ramped up in numerous other ways.
lynchy:
Zac_A:
There’s no point complaining about this, except to vent frustration, these schemes are coming in all over the place, Newcastle’s Clean Air Zone kicked in at the end of January. It doesn’t affect cars but truck operators need to run their registrations through the online check site to avoid surprise fines of £50 per day.They come in because people didn’t bother to object,and the vocal minority get their way, Hackney is going to block 75% of roads to cars in '25…thanks to a very vocal minority group
They do object to the point of residents of Bexley and Bromley raising a petition to return to Kent.Partly because everyone there knows that Comrade Khan won’t stop at this.Which has been closed down for ‘breaching guidelines’.
Obviously the Tory government guidelines that created Khan’s ‘Greater London’ and that now wants to add even more to it.