I don't want to open the usual hornets nest on motorists v cyclists etc but apparently this starts on 4 February and affects areas like Sidcup and Bexley which I pass on my way to work.
Is it a congestion charge by stealth because I've seen or heard nothing about it at all other than signs on the A2 and A20 saying you are now in the Low emission area.
I'm just a decent, honest, working man, whose wages are only ever increased with extreme reluctance by his employer, trying to support my family. Am I about to incur another stealth tax? I've not budgeted for this because I've heard nothing.
I'm worried I'm going to be screwed £8 plus a day or whatever the congestion charge is and on my wages and present personal circumstances I simply cannot afford it.
Can anyone please help and explain what this is all about?
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It's a phased-in thing starting with large vehicles.
Basically, the new vehicles should be compliant and won't have to pay - it's aimed at older vehicles with high emissions.
I'll find the link in a sec...
Vehicles affected:
The Low Emission Zone (LEZ) will affect older, diesel-engined lorries, buses, coaches, minibuses and large vans (exceeding 1.205 tonnes unladen weight).
It will also affect other specialist vehicles that are derived from lorries and vans, including motorised horse boxes, breakdown and recovery vehicles, refuse collection vehicles, gritters, sweepers, concrete mixers, tippers, removals lorries, fire appliances, motor caravans, ambulances and large hearses (over 2.5 tonnes).
There will be a phased introduction of the LEZ from 4 February 2008 through to January 2012. Different vehicles will be affected over time and increasingly tougher emissions standards will apply.
That's a big relief I was panicking there. Thanks S!
Read in the london lite the other day, this scheme does not affect normal cars, just buses or lorries, so the bus companies will have to have more checks on their buses to make sure they are not producing too much co2, if they are found to be emiting too much co2 they will be hit with big fines.
just turned no two 100W none energy saving lamps in protest !! and await a knock on door from Eco warrior in raindow aliance uniform !
You can tell he's a bit worried by the fact he's extended the OAP's free bus/train/tube passes into the morning peak. OAPs are much more likely to vote than any other age group.
Livingstone wouldn't do that - it would guarantee he didn't win the election.
You can tell he's a bit worried by the fact he's extended the OAP's free bus/train/tube passes into the morning peak. OAPs are much more likely to vote than any other age group.[/quote]
He's been trying to do that for ages.
Eco warriors, blimey
But the best thing about it is that to ensure we are all now greener we have an extra refuse collection van plodding up and down our street spewing out sh*t every week...
Or how about the government setting a new car company that researches petrol alternatives instead of giving china and india 100 million !!!!
me and my pals had fun baiting the council asking what you do with certain items - i wont go into since it is lunchtime.
one question - where do egg shells go - into the caddy or the black sack???
Welcome to the Socialist Republic of London run by Comrade Ken.
his advisors are members of Socialist Action (formery Red Action) once paid by Moscow and now paid by the Tax payer. Formery members of the IRA /Troups Out etc etc etc, and no i didnt write this weeks Dispatches program(on the newt lovingwanker) but i could have.
I've had a moan at them about where I store my black sacks for 2 weeks between collections too - not surprisingly I haven't had a response.
Yes Livingstone raises taxes, gives away travel on public transport for all and is only doing it to get re-elected. But he's about as socialist these days as Tony ****ing Blair.
Yes the council rubbish collections are crap, becoming increasingly unreliable and moving inevitably towards a collection every fortnight. But this is largely because the Tories cut all their ****ing funding so badly in the nineties that they haven't ever recovered from it.
Every week we get an argument about cycling/buses/train fares/insert-cause-du-semaine here. There is precisely **** all anyone can do about it.
Greenwich do a good job ob the rrecycling thing on the whole this latest is a bit hit and miss though.
Drove round old Deptford other day . From The Hoy boozer (long gone) all along the water front area and up to the teacher training place is posh apartments ! So they have built on a scap metal yard that was there when Peeps was a kid and on the site of the old Power Station mmmmmmmmmmm nice hope they dont grow their own veg!
As a resident of one of those quiet little roads this ghas got to be a joke. I now obviously am not allowed to move as the removal company won't fancy incurring a charge, have the roads swept, call the fire brigade or an ambulance or even fecking die in my own home, coz if I do the missus will just have to leave my rotting carcass out with the bins which won't be collected.
As for gritters if anyone can remember seing a grit lorry around Joydens Wood at any time since the last ice age, they should stick to the normal tobacco