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London’s latest effort to clear bad air is contested but necessary: The scheme obliges drivers of the most polluting vehicles inside the ultra-low emission zones to pay £12.50 ($16) a day. (www.economist.com)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

For context, virtually all petrol cars built after 2006 comply with the new rules. There was a scrappage scheme that paid you to get rid of your polluting vehicle.

In Haringey- one of the outer London boroughs affected by the ULEZ expansion 60% of families don’t have cars.

It’s not the poor who are driving around the borough