Potential LEZs

[2cv]

Potential LEZs

The high court has ruled that 33 areas must reduce emissions by 2021 in order to meet EU rules. The affected areas are as below

 

[Phillybarbour]

These are likely to start by banning Euro 2 or 3 and older and progressing from there. It’s been inevitable for a while it’s only a matter of time.

love how the picture used has a 1950s ish car in it.

 

[teejay]

Liverpool City council and Sefton Metropolitan borough council are right next door to each other and together cover a huge area of the northwest of England going north from the river Mersey, east and west to the Irish sea and it has very many holiday areas which will be affected when this happens. Only a very small portion of the area is a city i.e. Liverpool.

 

[GeoffL]

Personally, I don't want to take my motorhome into any cities and am content to park outside and use public transport to visit cities of interest. However, my big concern is that the potential for segments of arterial routes to be affected (e.g. the A38 through Plymouth, M5 and A30 through Exeter, M5 and M6 around Spaghetti Junction).

 

[2cv]

These are likely to start by banning Euro 2 or 3 and older and progressing from there. It’s been inevitable for a while it’s only a matter of time.

love how the picture used has a 1950s ish car in it.

I found the picture in a classic car magazine, they are well organised in the classic car world and are campaigning already for classic cars to be exempted.

 

[Phillybarbour]

I found the picture in a classic car magazine, they are well organised in the classic car world and are campaigning already for classic cars to be exempted.

That’s understandable as the cars will become undrivable in many areas.

 

[yorkslass]

I'm surprised that Leeds doesn't appear on the list. According to local news it's one of the highest polluted cities in the uk.
I don't mind the limitations, provided they don't craftily include bypasses and suck us into extra charges to get about.

 

[scouter]

It all depends where the councils put their monitoring equipment, for instance one of the Kirklees Council's stations overlooks the M62 on an overbridge a few hundred yards from my home and hence the local school is also heavily polluted. But Kirklees has a large area and such separate town centres HUddersfield, Dewsbury, Batley and Cleckheaton, I'm not sure how one determines what measures should be put where.

There again I have read the suggestion that the Tinsley Viaduct in Sheffield which carries the M1 over the valley will need to have a reduced speed limit to reduce the pollution in the valley but there again those of us that can remember steel making in Sheffield and the level of the visible pollution that used to hang over the city and that valley, wonders what all the fuss is about.

But on another point its about time that vehicles that spend their life in the city centres are cleaned up first, buses, taxis, private hire cars, rubbish wagons etc

alan

 

[witzend]

I'll be surprised if when it comes to getting a badge we'll get it for as little cost as the French or German ones

 

[rayc]

The 'badge'situation is ridiculous. Separate ones for France and Germany. Antwerp has its own [free] scheme where foreign vehicles have to prior register.