Cleaning up London’s toxic air

How is scrapping perfectly usable cars good for the environment? the environmental cost of building replacement cars far outweighs the damage that would be caused by leaving the older cars on the road. this plan was devised in the EU to bolster the car industry.
A tax on those that can least afford it. We are coming out of the EU
large companies can afford to run new compliant vehicles. many small struggling companies cannot. the middle class can afford newer vehicles. the individual resident already driving an older car is likely doing so because they can't afford a newer vehicle, and now face their family car being banned with now no resale value locally.
The Congestion Charge, Low Emission Zone and Ultra Low Emission Zone were introduced to bring London in line with EU targets for major cities within Europe. Now since the EU referendum and Brexit outcome we stand on the precipice of deep recession, yet the mayor in a quest for soundbites seeks to drive even more van reliant small businesses out of business, as happened with the introduction of the Low Emission Zone several years ago. In addition diesel car owners with older cars are those which can least afford to replace their banned vehicles. Financial suicide for London and hardship for it's residents bowing to the EU which will have shunned us by 2020. Why the rush to push for economic ruin? and why now, amidst such uncertainty?

How is scrapping perfectly usable cars good for the environment? the environmental cost of building replacement cars far outweighs the damage that would be caused by leaving the older cars on the road. this plan was devised in the EU to bolster the car industry.
A tax on those that can least afford it. We are coming out of the EU
large companies can afford to run new compliant vehicles. many small struggling companies cannot. the middle class can afford newer vehicles. the individual resident already driving an older car is likely doing so because they can't afford a newer vehicle, and now face their family car being banned with now no resale value locally.
The Congestion Charge, Low Emission Zone and Ultra Low Emission Zone were introduced to bring London in line with EU targets for major cities within Europe. Now since the EU referendum and Brexit outcome we stand on the precipice of deep recession, yet the mayor in a quest for soundbites seeks to drive even more van reliant small businesses out of business, as happened with the introduction of the Low Emission Zone several years ago. In addition diesel car owners with older cars are those which can least afford to replace their banned vehicles. Financial suicide for London and hardship for it's residents bowing to the EU which will have shunned us by 2020. Why the rush to push for economic ruin? and why now, amidst such uncertainty?

Another tax on those that can least afford it.
large companies can afford to run new compliant vehicles. many small struggling companies cannot. the middle class can afford newer vehicles. the individual resident already driving an older car is likely doing so because they can't afford a newer vehicle, and now face their family car being banned with now no resale value locally.
The Congestion Charge, Low Emission Zone and Ultra Low Emission Zone were introduced to bring London in line with EU targets for major cities within Europe. Now since the EU referendum and Brexit outcome we stand on the precipice of deep recession, yet the mayor in a quest for soundbites seeks to drive even more van reliant small businesses out of business, as happened with the introduction of the Low Emission Zone several years ago. In addition diesel car owners with older cars are those which can least afford to replace their banned vehicles. Financial suicide for London and hardship for it's residents bowing to the EU which will have shunned us by 2020. Why the rush to push for economic ruin? and why now, amidst such uncertainty?

The Congestion Charge, Low Emission Zone and Ultra Low Emission Zone were introduced to bring London in line with EU targets for major cities within Europe. Now since the EU referendum and Brexit outcome we stand on the precipice of deep recession, yet the mayor in a quest for soundbites seeks to drive even more van reliant small businesses out of business, as happened with the introduction of the Low Emission Zone several years ago. In addition diesel car owners with older cars are those which can least afford to replace their banned vehicles. Financial suicide for London and hardship for it's residents bowing to the EU which will have shunned us by 2020. Why the rush to push for economic ruin? and why now, amidst such uncertainty?

These zones have been proven NOT to make any difference to pollution or congestion. The Mayor should start with transport he is directly responsible namely buses, cabs and private hire vehicles. The ULEZ is another cynical attack on drivers who already pay taxes based on pollution.

90% of all goods are delivered by road - how do you suggest we deliver goods without commercial vehicles?

Lots of small businesses will go to the wall who cannot deliver beyond the north circular, your prices will rise and pollution will fall as all the people made unemployed cannot travel anywhere in there 2005 or older cars and vans - madness

Pollution does respect a line on a map, better integrated transport systems, extension to the tube system, freely moving traffic, better integrated and planned road works, reduced number of private cabs, road improvements A40 Park Royal, road crossing of the Thames to the east, less planes flying over the city will all help

The government/ city already introduced the Lez zone with older vehicles paying up to £5000 for the exhaust system!

Larger vehicles/ buses and coaches reduce emissions not increase them

The plan to extend the area of the Ultra Low Emission Zone to the North and South Circular must put these two roads inside the Zone. If they aren't inside the zone they will be used by polluting vehicles to skirt around the zone. This would make the situation much worse for the residents living along those roads. And so you would have a situation where you would improve the lives of the people inside the zone at the cost of the health of the people living along these two already busy and highly polluted roads. I would also like the Mayor and TFL to re-introduce restrictions on HGV traffic along the South Circular which Boris Johnson scrapped when he was Mayor. Currently HGVs have no restrictions along the Exluded Road Network which the North and South Circular are a part of.

This is a typical political attempt to target business and ultimately consumers with increased costs under the policy banner of pollution rather than actually deal with the issue itself.

London is a vast city that needs servicing on a daily basis from suppliers ranging from construction, utility companies to food deliveries. Introducing a surcharge is purely a way of raising revenue its not addressing the issue of pollution. All a surcharge will succeed in doing is increasing the costs to consumers.
Whilst agreeing an age limit has to be place on vehicles that are less efficient that regulation is already in place and has had little impact on overall pollution levels.
As most commercial service vehicles are diesel in reality the mayor is targeting business which already has to carry the burden of the congestion charge on a daily basis already along with the extortionate parking charges.
The problem with central London and surrounding boroughs is there are a vast number of private vehicles driving in to London everyday including people on the school run. If we improve public transport and the frequency of services, reduce fares and deter the use of private vehicles we will make significant impact on pollution. In addition delivery vehicles should be encourage to deliver through the night. I agree this will increase costs but it will ease the congestion issues thereby reducing the time spent in making deliveries and by association their emissions.

Whats the point of continually expanding the zones and penalising car owners without at same promting the uptake of non polluting electric cars. One policy alone cant work in isolation we may have to accept cars are a part of london- we dont have to accept their emission pollution- why hasnt past Mayoral offices , or this one - aggressively pushed for take up of electric cars?? new electric cars are expensive but things can be donw ie allow free parking accross all boroughs, use of bus lanes for them like other world cities have, then youll see more people buying them - and we all benefit from cleaner air -its not rocket science

I'm a bit concerned about the environmental costs of scrapping usable cars and also I feel the congestion caused by the number of cars on the road is a concern, as well as emissions. Is there no way older cars can be retrofitted to be less polluting? I would be especially in favour of car rationing for all (maybe three days a week) except people who can demonstrate a particular need. Also, why are there so many cars on the school run? Surely most kids live in walking distance?