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BBC News - Ulez: Scrappage scheme extension begins
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-66542278

Up to a bag of sand for your old shitter. Not sure of the details exactly, but it's first come, first served.

gremlin wrote: Mon Aug 21, 2023 1:04 pm BBC News - Ulez: Scrappage scheme extension begins
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-66542278

Up to a bag of sand for your old shitter. Not sure of the details exactly, but it's first come, first served.

I saw Kent and Surrey councils are refusing permission for ulez signs as their residents are excluded from scrappage but shafted by ulez.

Mussels wrote: Mon Aug 21, 2023 1:38 pm

gremlin wrote: Mon Aug 21, 2023 1:04 pm BBC News - Ulez: Scrappage scheme extension begins
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-66542278

Up to a bag of sand for your old shitter. Not sure of the details exactly, but it's first come, first served.

I saw Kent and Surrey councils are refusing permission for ulez signs as their residents are excluded from scrappage but shafted by ulez.

My mum and sted-dad recently said that it was unlikely they'd come up from Herne Bay to visit us in Bromley again, due to ULEZ.

Silver linings, and all that...

Son, you mean everything in the world to me and your preciousness is beyond value. OK, beyond value is overdoing it, how about up to £15?

gremlin wrote: Mon Aug 21, 2023 1:48 pm

Mussels wrote: Mon Aug 21, 2023 1:38 pm

gremlin wrote: Mon Aug 21, 2023 1:04 pm BBC News - Ulez: Scrappage scheme extension begins
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-66542278

Up to a bag of sand for your old shitter. Not sure of the details exactly, but it's first come, first served.

I saw Kent and Surrey councils are refusing permission for ulez signs as their residents are excluded from scrappage but shafted by ulez.

My mum and sted-dad recently said that it was unlikely they'd come up from Herne Bay to visit us in Bromley again, due to ULEZ.

Silver linings, and all that...

Can't say I blame them, Bromley isn't nice

gremlin wrote: Mon Aug 21, 2023 1:04 pm Up to a bag of sand for your old shitter. Not sure of the details exactly, but it's first come, first served.

£2k for cars, have they not seen the state of the car market lately even if you sold whatever you've got that doesn't meet ULEZ you'm going to fall short.

Very far short. I'm in London according to my postcode and Kent according to my job! But my car is Superb and ULEZ compliant already. Could not afford to change it anyhow.

I was more thinking of any of you old pikies who keep half a dozen old bikes in lock ups and sheds, like Mr. Trebus the hoarder from telly. Not sure of the rules, but wheel in any old non-runner and pick up your grand. Easy money.

the_priest wrote: Mon Aug 21, 2023 5:02 pm Very far short. I'm in London according to my postcode and Kent according to my job! But my car is Superb and ULEZ compliant already. Could not afford to change it anyhow.

It used to be Kent until 1965, some people can't let go of the past.

I don't know how widespread this is but I'd love to see the total repair bill.

This is very similar to the "Cash For Clunkers" deal we had here. It was an absolute disaster for the lower income people. It artificially inflated prices of old clunkers, removed a bunch of cars from going to salvage yards where those without a pot to piss in went for parts & completely fuckered the used car market. There were no benefits at all.

28% of cameras stolen or vandalized.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-66535086

KungFooBob wrote: Mon Aug 21, 2023 8:35 pm 28% of cameras stolen or vandalized.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-66535086

I'm against damaging speed cameras, as they do sort of serve a purpose. But these LBTQTLEZ cameras seem like a tax really.

Why would you take less than a car is worth to scrap it, all for some authoritarian dictatorship which has nothing what so ever to do with emissions.

Ten years ago, you'd have been called a conspiracy theorist if you said this would happen.

Why cant they just let people with Diesels get them converted to run Veg Oil. Is burning that shizz not getter for the environment in more ways than one?

No need though is there, as the goalposts will be moved again later, just see LEZ being up scammed for ULEZ. Cars by design are getting cleaner, the Nightmare for London even tried to brush it off by saying that it'll only be 9 out of 10 cars which aren't compliant anyway, so if that's recognised by him, then what is this camera roll out really all about?

Air quality in London by measured standards is good, yet falls well below standard in the Underground.......Ultra Lying Extremist Zone.

Felix wrote: Mon Aug 21, 2023 9:33 pm Why cant they just let people with Diesels get them converted to run Veg Oil. Is burning that shizz not getter for the environment in more ways than one?

I think this is more about local air quality (primarily particulates and NOx IIRC) than carbon emissions.

Although it's all important. Vive la Net Zero!

Local air quality is made up from international quality, see sand storms for visual proof of how air travels far and wide.

If local councils never spent the last 30 years trying to slow traffic down to piss folk off enough to use public transport then the city air quality would not be as bad. Greenways, bus lanes, Blocked roads, speed bumps, slowing down traffic light sequence and arsehole 20 mph limits. Remember rush hour was just that.

I think local activity has a fairly substantial impact on local air quality. Just look at how key pollutants tail off as distance increases from a major road.

I remember when I was looking at houses and had young kids, anything 200m or less from a very large road seemed like a no go then.