ULEZ Letter

[bluethrunthru]

And of the remaining 7%, over a third are exempt for other reasons.

I do think a lot of folk also don't appreciate that a lot of the older petrol cars will be classics - used for dry weekends only so if its over 40 years old its exempt. That leaves a group of petrol cars built between 1983 and 2006 used on a daily basis in the ULEZ area would be impacted. There can't be many of them left tbh

 

[Kippax Street 1880]

What a selfish ****.

You wouldn't say that to my face my friend so don't say it from behind your keyboard.

 

[Blue Mist]

As this has, predictably, been moved to the politics thread I'm out.

 

[metalblue]

I do think a lot of folk also don't appreciate that a lot of the older petrol cars will be classics - used for dry weekends only so if its over 40 years old its exempt. That leaves a group of petrol cars built between 1983 and 2006 used on a daily basis in the ULEZ area would be impacted. There can't be many of them left tbh

Petrol cars older than 2006 are probably driven by the less well off. Who can’t afford £12.50 and can’t afford to replace as these cars are going to be in the worthless bracket.

A tax on societies poor, such a modern Labour policy

 

[Scottyboi]

As this has, predictably, been moved to the politics thread I'm out.

Thanks for letting us know.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

Petrol cars older than 2006 are probably driven by the less well off. Who can’t afford £12.50 and can’t afford to replace as these cars are going to be in the worthless bracket.

A tax on societies poor, such a modern Labour policy

Who introduced the ULEZ zone and then made a wider rollout a condition of the TFL funding agreement?

 

[Scottyboi]

Petrol cars older than 2006 are probably driven by the less well off. Who can’t afford £12.50 and can’t afford to replace as these cars are going to be in the worthless bracket.

A tax on societies poor, such a modern Labour policy

The repair bills to keep that on the road each year must mount up.

 

[pace89]

Extension of ULEZ was pretty much mandated by the UK Government in the financial support package provided to London during Covid. Not that the Tories (Chris Skidmore aside) ever mention that.

 

[bluethrunthru]

Petrol cars older than 2006 are probably driven by the less well off. Who can’t afford £12.50 and can’t afford to replace as these cars are going to be in the worthless bracket.

A tax on societies poor, such a modern Labour policy

How many daily drivers built pre-2006 do you think are in use in Greater London - quick look on Gumtree reveals there are a number of pre-2006 Ford Focus cars for sale for less than a grand. Its a bogus argument you put up.

 

[domalino]

I do think a lot of folk also don't appreciate that a lot of the older petrol cars will be classics - used for dry weekends only so if its over 40 years old its exempt. That leaves a group of petrol cars built between 1983 and 2006 used on a daily basis in the ULEZ area would be impacted. There can't be many of them left tbh

Almost none. It's a PR thing more than anything. I live down South and frequently drive to Bristol, Bath, Oxford, Birmingham and you see all the signs and think you're going to get charged, but the ticket never arrives because like 93% of people my car is exempt from almost all Clear Air Zone restrictions.

They haven't made it clear enough just how few cars are not compliant.

The problem is that the tories (aided by newspapers who desperately want to import Armerican climate change denial as a potential wedge issue in our politics) successfully managed to convince the media that ULEZ is why they just about held onto Uxbridge by 400 votes (after a 24% swing), when in fact it was more likely Starmer/Labour suddenly opposing ULEZ that lead to 2,000 people voting green parties who were completely for ULEZ.

If ULEZ was that important, there wouldn't have been a 20,000 vote swing in favour of the party supporting ULEZ.