What is London’s controversial Ulez expansion? - BBC News 

If 90% of the cars are passable already, why even pass this law? How is this a solution? Let’s tax the poorest people, the ones who can’t afford newer cars more for “air quality”.

it's a tax on poor people, typical labour, tax and spend

Politicians caring about people's health. 😂

According to the ULEZ vehicle checker, my 2002 model year Volvo V70, producing 229g of CO2 /km is exempt from the ULEZ charge. In contrast, my 2014 model year VW Golf TDI, producing a mere 106g of CO2 / km does not meet ULEZ standards and incurs the £12.50 per day charge. Pure irony.

There’s nothing more respectable than someone who is willing to stand up to social pressure and say no

Why doesn't Khan clear off to India and clean up the air there, where it's needed!! 🤔

Basically, he is ripping off millions of people.

Criminals. Being forced in under the pretence of 'Clean Air', but guess what every car on the road could be electric and the charges won't go away.

ULEZ isn't going to improve air quality. It's just going to make people have to pay even more money for their commutes. At a time when UK food & housing prices are at an all time high, no less. Sounds like a terrible idea overall, that will do little more than shore up the government's coffers.

Just to clarify, This is NOT to save you from pollution, it's to drain you from pockets! If they'd care they would GO GREEN! (Electric scooters, Electric bikes -incl. throttle or bigged motor - and would fit charging stations). They're just hiding behind stealing your pockets and making it look "Good". Wake-up sleepers!

Sad,sad day for democracy where the state can cause misery and pain on its people.

Breaking news: Totalitarian state restricts citizens movements.

Governments have gotta stop placing responsibility for air pollution on the working class and start going for the manufacturers. All we workers can do is try and make it to next paycheck, making that more difficult wont do much.

Why anyone would live in London anyway is beyond me.

how £12.50 fee will clean our air??

As long as the poorer people of London pay £12.50a day to drive there car around It's ok to pollute Let that sink in

You are the carbon they want to reduce.

I think the foreign cities comparison part is just utterly ridiculous, as they all have cheap and effective public transport, something we don't have here in Britain. People in the media of this country and the establishment always make a fine art of talking about how "they're doing it, why aren't WE", they're deluded. We should craft solutions that tailor to our people, not copy and pasting from others. Making driving more expensive BEFORE any hefty investments into public transport is such a stupid thing to do. First invest into public transport to make it wide-ranging and cheap, only then should people be talking about charging £12.80 per day to drive your own car.

Not going to pay any charges

What has happened to impartiality at the BBC ? You've quoted the figures of a discredited poll. If Khan wants to know what Londoners think call the Mayoral election NOW

Sadiq khan doing what's he told to do. The front man!.

I will pay the fines by a CORPORATION on my legal vehicle if you provide me proof of service, ak how are you cleaning the air sirs??

If it requires a massive expansion of the surveillance state maybe it's not a good idea.

the original ULEZ gave 5 years for people to change cars, Khan gave 8 months

Living in the US....why cant we have news broadcasting more informational like this?

Pollution in the underground is 18 times worse than London roadside air according to research. If you're bothered about air pollution, fix that first.

😂ULEZ is completely unlawful. It's not even a law. It's not a statute or act of Parliament which also can be challenged in higher courts under the law. When you establish a law in a court you cannot retrospectively apply it to the past it can only be applied to that day forward. So all cars purchased before ULEZ was introduced, are lawfully exempt. I will repeat it it cannot be lawful to apply any Rule or law retrospectively

Funny how Boris is complaining about the financial situation of TfL. Last time I checked, he was the one who increased their debt by more than anyone in recent history.

When the EU revise imission regulations on ICE vehicles ALL ICE will be paying the ULEZ charge because London will impose it too. Further more, this is just the beginning, it will be rolled out to all cities, towns and villages. Traveling through these areas as you cross the country will cost you a fortune. But am I conspiracy theorist.

FYI. The camera for ULEZ alone use 0.025 kWh. Once all 2750 of them are on line, that small amount will equate to 250,000 Kg of coal burned a year just to power these oppressive cameras. In the name of lowering emissions. What a joke. Would it not be easier to require an annual emissions check of one’s vehicle and place a passing sticker on once a year?!?

Seriously!!! Toxic air from cars? How was London before catalytic converters were put on cars? What a load of political dystopian dribble...

The scheme is so farcical, that I have received a fine for driving my 2021 registered car in the zone, simply because it is on dateless Northern Ireland number plates. The system only seems to recognise number plates in the two letters, two numbers, three letters format. Anything else and a fine will be sent out. Shocking.

Its not our fault the cars don't meet the emissions standards its the fault of the manufacturers and now we have to pay the price.

Where's the evidence of 4000 birds, animals & insects dying annually, in previous years from unclean air?

Dont pay fines to servants.

Its a cash grab by khant

If they are not allowed to drive in these areas , maybe they shouldn`t have to pay road tax that repairs the roads in those areas

I think this air quality thing is stupid.

U: Unwelcomed L: Loathed E: Extraordinary Z: Zone

One of Labour's weapons of mass dissatisfaction!

Thats just fobbing off the responsibility of clean air management on the people while squeezing money out of people who cant afford new cars.

Force people to go electric but still ban e scooters

defundthebbc lies and say sorry to nigel

All these people trying to fix the air pollution and yet they don’t even speak a word about China.

12.59 A DAY?! I can understand why they're cutting those cameras down. It's essentially a poverty tax.

Air tax. 1984.

End all food & drink deliveries into the Borough of Westminster. See how many parties they can hold in a lockdown.

So all those diesel cars built before 2016 having to be scrapped and replaced when they could have been used for 20 more years and saved thousands of new ones being produced. What a tragedy for the climate, not to mention the economic disaster it is for London with millions of people choosing to avoid going there now.

Did we ever meet th scientific death figures during covid?😂

So everyone with a compliant vehicle is unaffected. Everyone with a non-compliant vehicle is forced to pay £12.50 - even with a £2000 scrappage scheme, those who can pay will pay, because having your flexibility taken away is absurd. So in the end the CO² emissions stay the same because the same vehicles are still driving. So how does this help the environment, other than to burden people with an extra living expense in a time where living expenses are going up. So dumb.

Let's be clear: Sadiq Khan's concern for children's health is questionable, given that he has his own kids living in the city with him and drives his heavy Range Rover a short distance for a dog walk. If pollution truly had such severe consequences, causing illnesses like stunted lungs, asthma, and Alzheimer's, and if it were irrefutably established as the cause, we would expect a more substantial response from actual parents demonstrating outside number 10 and emotional pleas on the news. It's worth noting that few healthy kids died from the flu, yet many were medicated en masse not too long ago £$€. We're aware that one of Khan's toughest decisions involved buying cameras first and then proceeding with the lucrative ULEZ poor tax despite significant opposition during public consultation, and then implementing it regardless, without alienating the majority and downplaying the minority by influencing the BBC to curtail truthful reporting. This was achieved by categorizing vehicles into "good/new/ who are wealthy people's cars" and "bad/old/who are poor people's cars." The most vulnerable and voiceless individuals, trapped in car debt and ineligible for the impractical scrapping scheme, are the first to bear the burden. London's congestion issue persists, enabling those who can afford it to continue driving their ULEZ-compliant Range Rover V8s and 31 mpg 2-liter Jaguars to school because walking is deemed too perilous for the rich peoples kids. Meanwhile, carers, nurses, shift workers, joiners, and plumbers who rely on older, more fuel-efficient 55+ mpg vehicles face penalties due to their "old and bad" classification. Interestingly, the London Tube contains toxic particles - dust, metal, skin, and clothing fibers - stirred up by passing trains, and air quality inside carriages is 18 times worse than even the most polluted high streets. Despite this, the mayor and TFL maintain that it's safe, withholding studies on air quality that they commissioned themselves. Why not address the dire state of social housing in London, which detrimentally affects children's physical and mental health? Damp, molds, and poor air quality within inadequately insulated housing owned by neglectful landlords and councils leave them unable to afford proper heating. An estimated 3.6 million children bear this burden. If the yearly spike in lung conditions is to be believed, perhaps the real causes are closer to home than his ULEZ poor tax on the vulnerable. The mayor can't profit from issues he ignores, which could very well be the underlying reasons for these illnesses.

12.50 x 30 days =375 pound from pour people bigger scam ever and nice money for TFL The poorest car owners will be charged £12.50 per day just for driving in their own city. This is wrong.

Say you drive your car every day. Khan is going to mug you of more than £4000 a year.

The British environment minister said that wear from brake linings and tyres on the roads may be more harmful than corrosion caused by petrol and diesel cars, due to the size of the battery in electric cars that generate more polluting fine particles. "Electric cars are usually about 20 to 30 percent heavier than petrol and diesel cars." Batteries for electric cars need rare earth metals such as neodymium, a metal that is used to manufacture magnets with all kinds of electric motors and high-tech devices, making them more difficult to rotate. The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee in the British Parliament has summoned Environment Minister George Eustis to question him about steps to reduce polluting particulate matter known as PM2.5.

Refuse to pay the charges, burn old tyres in your garden.

1st 2023 ULEZ. 2nd 2024 15 Minute Cities.

that is simple discrimination on the basis of wealth. Those who can pay circulate, those who cannot pay are penalized

Imperial College modelling...

Nobody pay the fines simple as

All for money, we already pay extortionate premiums for insurances and road tax, now this? I have a new car anyways but I find this a joke. Don’t get me wrong you see some cars chucking out some terrible emissions but you can fine them, not charge a premium everyday for anyone that owns an older car..

Digital "Trojan Horse" prison ...............

I and my family will not be visiting London for our bi-annual stays , in protest of the ridiculous ‘human’ being, and his policies ! Even though we have what are classed, compliant vehicles. I have friends who are doing the same

So if I cannot afford a new car I would get charged £12.50 per day which is nearly as much as rent in some parts of the country.... and this is bound to expand more again.

this is a tax it will soon be pay per mile and every one will be paying it. this needs to stop and this net zero too as it is costing the country money and the big company's eletric gas etc are making more money.

Im a big supporter of efforts to reduce pollution but I really question whats going to be achieved by the Ulez expansion. All petrol cars built after 2004 are Ulez compliant all diesel cars built after 2016 are Ulez compliant meaning that within a few years hopefully all areas of the country will have Ulez type air quality. What Kahn and the Govt in general need to do is invest heavily in the charging infrastructure so that busineeses and individuals can cope with the 2030 switch when all new cars must be hybrid or zero emission. I also serioiusly question why the Govt and Mayor are wedded to one way of reducing emissions. Why not invest in research into fuels that can run in current engines without causing emissions. The original diesel engine ran on chip fat and all diesel cars built until around the 1990s could have run on it for some reason car manufacturers changed that just as people started to find out it was possible.

Why don't people discuss about LTNS , WHICH IS ABSOLUTELY ONE OF WORSE ROAD POLICY, IT’S A POLICY TO GENERATE REVENUES A TAX ON MOTORISTS.

Also one question is, all that money we’d pay, where would it be going…

Make no mistake when the income from this starts to dwindle they will change the criteria to Euro 6 cars

So is the right to private life, Economy and social life. All the above are Human rights Too. The man claim 4000 death are caused by air pollution created by none complying vehicles but it ok to carry on as normal as long as you pay a fee. What about knife crime 20 plus death a year?

So.. installing theae cameras doesn't reduce the pollution.. but rather enables revenue to be generated from the pollution..

It is not Khan who makes the rules, the government does.

Gotta love the way BoJo tries to sidestep the issue by calling the expansion "new". It's nothing of the sort. He was the one who started ULEZ in the first place. No mention of that from him. Talk about politicians having conveniently short memories.

3:05 This literally says NOTHING. It could have so may reasons for that to be the case. 1. Have you ever considered the fact that the people in outer London have to drive into London every day, therefore being on the road for a long time every day, therefore sitting right in the middle of exhaust pipes? That might be a reason GPs in outer London have more to do on asthma. 2. Many people work in central London all their life and move out of London when they’re older, and that’s also the time when they develop and suffer from asthma as a consequence from living in London. I’m sure many people also move out of London as a result of an asthma diagnosis. 3. What is the date of this study even? Could it be very recent reflecting ULEZ already being in place in central London? Where is the old BBC that would check all of these angles before bringing to air such poor (and frankly biased-sounding) reporting!??

so basically you can still pollute as long as you pay. What a pile of crap. This ,,save the planet,clean air and electric from 2030'' why is happening only in uk? We are all on same planet as USA....so why in USA you can have a v12/v8 as common as a fiesta in uk? Please do explain

This is not enough, we need more to tackle the cars. In Hong Kong if people buy a not electric cars need to pay more than £10,000. In 10 years time in Europe all not electric car will be ban on sales. Why people are still buy those cars?

So someone can’t afford a newer car and he gets fined for it. What better way to profit from the less than fortunate. Seems familiar.

This ULEZ charge in london is annoying me so much ! I used to live in london not anymore but I regularly visit with my family and the fact that we are getting charged ? Why? Why are the manufacturers not charged for manufacturing badly made cars to begin with? Why do the car companies get away with this but we as consumers are being charged for buying a car few years back when we didn’t even know about ULEZ? This is the classic rich get richer and poor get poorer concept

Do they know what a pain in the ass it can be to get a car? Especially one newer than five years old? Do they wanna give people qualifying low or no emissions vehicles to comply or can we agree this is a scheme to tax the common man ever more?

……MONEY GRABBING….is what it is….ffs…🙄

Any reduction in pollution is going to be good for people. Got to start somewhere, unfortunately.

0.04% of the atmosphere is CO2

If cars have a valid m o t it means they have passed the emission test the cameras are on,y recording the age of the car,how can they be fined for pollution

In it funny media never mention or challenge Khan riding round in big fuel guzzling range rovers with his army of gangsters , wish we had old school unafraid reporting.

London is a colder and more expensive version of Islamabad nowadays. Sad!

Don't pay what it's a piece of paper to say you didn't pay oh well just keep driving and don't pay

You don't pay for the air you breath,its a given natural thing of living beings

This is just another tax .and as for imperial college ,there a saying,who ever pays the piper calls the tune,

Freedom and liberty !

There is no way that 4000 people died because of pollution. They may have died because of asthma but that is a personal issue not a public issue

one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

Boris should have never opened this door

Can’t afford a fancy new car the doesn’t pollute so much? Well you’ll keep paying 12.50 everyday until you can. wtf kind of logic is that LOL

what it is a war on motorists just for profits search for 15 minute cities

The CONservatives, in the form of Boris Johnson as London Mayor, first introduced plans for Ulez in 2015. The CONservatives, in the form of Grant Shapps as Transport Secretary, Boris Johnson as PM, and Rishi Sunak as Chancellor, forced Mayor Khan to extend Ulez, by writing a letter to Khan in May 2020, demanding he extends Ulez as a condition for funding TfL. Rishi Sunak as Chancellor, Boris Johnson as PM, and Grant Shapps as Transport Secretary, designed, implemented and funded policies for Active Travel, which released £millions to local councils that implemented Central Tory policies for traffic restrictions across the UK. All roads lead back to Central Tory MPs. The CONservatives are conning the public!

Surely there is a better way to reduce pollution.

Air is good enough Look at food quality look at TFL there is no Bus no train in london sometime all due to strikes Look at Avon river there is factory close to river i think they pouring Petroleum in water i belive they killed at least Million Fish 🐟 😭

Well as the stupid mayor doesn’t care about the old people and the poor people and those relying on cars on the outside of London then I for one do not condone what happens to those cameras. It needs to be stopped. Government needs to step in and stop. There is no evidence at all that it will be to do with anyone’s health it’s all to do with money. Greed corruption.

We're really in disarray. Look at the video explaining how much co2 is really in your air. Theyre trying to control the crops guys. Really pay attention. Its just connecting the dots...

It’s time for the UK citizens to declare their independence.

My vehicles pollute. I have a 1933 Austin Ten, a 1960 Morris Minor Traveller, a 1950 Morris PV truck, a 1980’s Winget 3ton dumper , a 1990’s Siromer 25 hp tractor, a 2000’s Kubota mower, a 2002 Ford Transit truck,a 2004 Royal Enfield bullet motorcycle, a 2006 Fiat Ducato van, and a 2010 Hyundai i10. All these vehicles burn clean air and pump pollution into the environment. They perpetuate the second most polluting industry on earth and line the pockets of the most powerful organisations that exist. I am very poor and quite old. I will never be able to replace these vehicles with electric alternatives. In mitigation, Obviously I only use one combustion engine at a time. I live in a place where the density of humans is very sparse and there is a lot of clean air to absorb my pollution. HOWEVER: I am honest and aware of the facts about pollution. I do not deny the harm that I do when I use these vehicles. If I were able to attain alternatives I would. And I support clean air zoning, the electrification of transport and energy etc. And I look forward to a future where combustion of hydrocarbons is a rarity and not the norm. I celebrate every individual who buys an electric vehicle. I respect the restrictions of clean air zones in towns and cities. I support stricter speed limits in villages and built-up areas, NOT because I LIKE them, and NOT because I am a tree hugging eco zealot, but rather because I believe in progress towards a better, more caring world where we all sympathise, empathise and do less harm to our fellow citizens , animals , the air we all breathe and the land and sea from which we all get our food. Keep it real, be prepared to learn the facts, don’t hamper the good things happening in society because you yourself don’t like it. Think of the welfare of others as much as you care about yourself. Nobody is going to take away your supposed “FREEDOM” except where you want the freedom to selfishly harm others in the world around you. We are NOT free to murder, rape or steal! Neither should we be free to harm people, the environment or living nature. We are in a period of growing awareness of the harms of pollution and that is a good thing, NOT a bad thing! Support it.