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Ulez expansion: 45% fewer ‘dirty’ vehicles now on London’s roads, says TfL

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Sadiq Khan hails ‘huge progress’ as progress report finds more than 95% of vehicles are now compliant

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Surely everyone knew it would cut pollution, just many people don't give a shite about it.
Are those vehicles off the road though? Or have they just moved?
- It says off London roads. Which they indeed are.
  London has an awful pollution problem because of its density.
  The idea is to get them away from London which is what's happening.
  I don't know how anyone can expect these zones to reduce them elsewhere in the country.
  
  Me neither
  The TfL director of strategy and policy, Christina Calderato, said the figures showed that the Ulez was “highly effective in taking the oldest, most polluting vehicles off the roads”.
  Problem moved, not problem solved.
The cars have just moved to other areas of the UK. Dealers are using forecourts up north to sell second hand vehicles sold due to ULEZ expansion.
- Surely that's the plan? To reduce pollution in London.
- Other cities with similar pollution problems know what to do then. However London's particulate concentrations are pretty unique, from what I recall.
- A scrappage scheme is not a redistribution scheme.
This is 🐂 💩. Poor Alex had to sell his X5.
- Yeah, but now he's got Big Pete
  
  Baaa, he got Cayenne because of that first. And that one was 💩.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The number of the most polluting vehicles driven in London has fallen by almost half since the capital’s ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) was expanded, taking almost 80,000 older cars off the roads.
About 77,000, or 45%, fewer non-compliant cars and vans were detected on average a day in September, the first month of operation of the expanded zone – compared with June 2023.
TfL and Khan have said any net revenue raised through the Ulez will be reinvested into public transport, including the expansion of bus services in outer London.
Rishi Sunak’s government has used the expansion of Ulez to attack political opponents over what it has called “Labour’s war on motorists”, part of a battle against green policies it hopes could prove popular with voters.
The TfL director of strategy and policy, Christina Calderato, said the figures showed that the Ulez was “highly effective in taking the oldest, most polluting vehicles off the roads”.
Analysis of how much the expanded Ulez has affected air pollution in the capital is due to be published after six months of operation, with the data collected from 150 monitoring stations over a longer term to allow for factors such as weather.
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