The ring of cameras trained on London's roads to charge drivers of the most polluting vehicles $16 a day is due to expand next month - and not everyone is happy about it
If Mayor Sadiq Khan's plan goes ahead, London's Ultra Low Emission Zone will become one of the world's largest to tackle air pollution, encompassing 5 million extra people in the capital's leafier and less-connected outer boroughs.
"I can't afford to buy a new van. I simply don't have the budget," he said, speaking to Reuters at a central London anti-ULEZ demonstration attended by hundreds. In Rome this month the mayor delayed plans to toughen curbs on polluting vehicles after protests from citizens groups. He pointed to research showing the introduction of the ULEZ in 2019 caused nitrogen dioxide levels to fall by nearly half in central London, and that the assessment had overall backed an expansion. Critics dispute the assessment's conclusion.
"You're not going to please a hundred percent of people all the time," he said. "No politician in history has managed to do so."Low emission zones make a lot of sense in city centres, where air pollution is higher and many public transport alternatives exist, said Thomas Verbeek, assistant professor in urban studies at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.
"It's absolutely critical that even in a cost-of-living crisis we do not kick the can of air pollution down the road and let more children grow up unhealthy and unwell," she said.
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