Cleaning up London’s toxic air

Ridiculous tax on the least well off. There could be an argument re diesels but many low polluting petrol cars are dragged into this for political posing by the now hated mayor. When this is extended to the ULEZ this will become a major crisis for hundreds of thousands. Rich london mayor wants london roads just for the rich people like himself. Subjugate the masses mr mayor.......constantly despairing of the political elite!

This is a great step forward, and we must continue with the momentum and move towards all electric by 2040. I still don't understand why motorcycles aren't included - they are terrible polluters in London (and not just the air, but noise too!! It has become loud and deafening on the streets and in our homes. This madness has to stop)

Whilst I agree in principle to cutting pollution, it is an attack on the poor. How can I afford to replace my 2004 car when my family income is £9500/year? Reading the reports, even a new car is polluting (Nissan Qashqai is 18 times over the limit).
If Sadiq Khan is so concerned about pollution, lets hear him stopping the expansion of Heathrow which results in thousands of tonnes of fuel being burnt in the atmosphere daily. Using the old Midland Great Central line track bed instead of building HS2 would cut pollution. It won't happen because these are for the wealthy and not under Theresa May's all words and no action fairness policy.

ALL TRAFFIC LIGHTS MUST BE INTELLIGENT
wHAT i MEAN IF THERE IS NO TRAFFIC ON THE GREEN SIDE IT CHANGES TO RED AND OPEN TO THE OTHER SIDE
ALL WALK LIGHTS MUST BE EQUIPPED LIKEWISE.
AT INTERSECTIONS TRY NOT TO HAVE A 4 WAY WALK LIGHT TO SPEED TRAFFIC
TRY LEFT TURNS ON RED AFTER STOPPING WHICH HAS BEEN THE LAW IN THE USA SINCE 1973 EXCEPT IN NEW YORK CITY.
THIS WILL CUT TRAFFIC AND THUS POLLUTION
TOO MANY BIKE LANES. DON'T NEED BIKE LANES ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ROAD
TRY TO HAVE WIDEN AREAS FOR BUS STOPS
TRY NOT TO HAVE BUS STOPS OPPOSITE EACH OTHER AND THUS CAUSING TRAFFIC.
BUS CAN ONLY STOP FOR THE NUMBER OF BUSES AVAILABLE. THUS IF THERE IS 3 SPACES ONLY 3 BUSES MAY STOP NOT 4 OR 5 WHICH CAUSES CONGESTION. BUSES SHOULD BE PROHIBITED FROM BLOCK ANY INTERSECTION WHEN STOP
TRY TO GET FAIR AND BALANCE PEOPLE INVOLVED IN TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT

REALLY INTERESTED IN POLLUTION
CUT THE NUMBER OF BUS LANES AND TIME . NO MORE BUS LANES OPERATING 4 HOURS AT A TIME
NO 24 HOURS BUS LANES
20MPH ONLY AFTER 7 AM AND TIL 7PM. dURING AT 20 MPH IS CREATING TOO MUCH TRAFFIC
All traffic lights must be in a renew study every 2 years
Shut off must traffic lights after 11PM to 6 or 7AM
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I support this policy and wish it had been done years ago. But, as I live just outside the congestion zone close to the A501 Inner Ring Road, I'm worried that we could we affected badly by more people driving along the Inner Ring Road to avoid the congestion charge zone. Heavy traffic is already using the back streets in our area as a rat run. I would like to see the congestion charge zone and the T-zone expanded, especially Northwards, to protect our lungs too.

A great start to cleaning up the air that we breathe all day, every day. This will help to reduce respiratory problems for sufferers, plus we know that the toxic pollution is increasing Alzheimers.

But why aren't Black Cabs being charged? 30% of pollution in Central London comes from Black Cabs

Presumably the revenue raised will go to into increasing the charging points infrastructure, in order to increase the take up of EV/Hybrid vehicles?

With special emphasis on increasing these points near social housing, where many residents will not have access to off-road charging ability.

I was in support of increasing charges on polluting vehicles, however feedback I have provided was not included (I am not surprised). The charge is nothing else, but trying to tackle real problem whilst sitting at your office desk. First of all, one need to drive on the London's streets to understand what is wrong - merely charging cars on the "paper" pollution figures solves nothing. It does remove some bad cars from the streets more by an accident rather than as active measure against pollution. Majority, of pollution is not caused by individual driving their cars, by far the biggest polluters are London buses and HGVs - what is done about them? Nothing. What is done about black cambs? Nothing! What is done to improve streets and traffic flow, to reduce congestion... Nothing!! Only today on my 35 min drive I have seem like 4 cars with "smoke screens fitted" and they all were fairly new cars with diesel engines. What is done about these obvious polluters - they allowed to drive, because they have MOT's and on paper their cars are road worthy. You not going to win this battle by improving public transport because there are people like me who will never use it, or by promoting cycling, because there are again people who will reasonably never cycle because it is madness. London is not Amsterdam and not Copenhagen - go quickly and check they are like 10 times smaller than London, so what works there will never work here.

In summary:
Charge is in right direction, but it targets blindly
Worst polluters left unaffected
Road improvements are insufficient
40 years lack of investment and project cancellation cannot be covered but 800 million

There are many more effective measures:
Ban HGV's between 8AM and 8PM (Olympic style)
Only allow electric or PHEV taxis and private hire
Promote electric and PHEVs, by providing free parking and charging
... even ban all non hybrid vehicles from CC zone between 8AM and 6PM
... and many more

Comes from motorist driving petrol car...

Unfortunately all motoring charges affect the poorest worst, BUT this is a really serious issue with people suffering impaired lives or even early death because of air pollution. It's not the whole answer but it is a step in the right direction.
Richard Morse

What about those of us who have a car that is now 21years old, which CANNOT BE REPLACED WITH A NEW ONE, because they don't exist.
In my case a new car that:
1: I can do 90% + of my own maintenance.
2. Will seat up to 10 (other) people
3. Will (at a different time) carry 15 + bags of horse-manure
4. Is inherently safe because of its' high driver's view-point
5. Doesn't really need tarmac
( Yes, it's a "proper" Land-Rover ) I only do between 1500 & 3000 miles every year, but when I need it, I NEED IT - & I live (just) inside the North circular road.
Now what?

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2016/03/24/chronic-…
we ought to be reducing all negatave espects of car use.
its a shame that Lord Beeching worked for the roads lobby and never considered that most people would drive and thus need cars and parking and roads to do it all in. So undermined the rails provision for an unachievable goal, that of having all transport on roads:
it cant and never could have worked but it did sell cars and get roads built.(loads-a-money)
http://sensiblepolitics.beep.com/carfreenetwork.htm