| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Clean Air Charge for Driving in London | |
| Posted by: | Paul Campbell | |
| Date/Time: | 21/01/22 12:00:00 |
| That's quite an aggressive attitude you bring to the discussion about feasibility of measures to tackle climate change. Insulting people by calling them morons doesn't confer intellectual or moral superiority in the way that you appear to think it does. The opposite in fact. It just makes you like Steve Taylor. Schemes that make driving less convenient and encourage active travel are both feasible and highly cost-effective with easily quantifiable material returns that massively outweigh investment and maintenance. There are countless studies proving it. There are none disproving it. And yet you are actively working in this field while vigorously and often very angrily opposing any and every effort to reduce personal car use. Explain that. Fair enough I could have and should have worded the OP better. I didn't mean it to read as "every" journey but I accept that it does read like that. The press statement does indeed say £2 per day. No edit function on this forum. A £2 per day charge for cars or an extension to ULEZ is feasible to execute in London. People on this forum have not believed that ULEZ would happen, that road space would be reallocated away from cars to cycle lanes, that bus gates would be installed and buses given priority over cars. All these things can, do and will happen. We will see a reduction in the use of private cars in at least central London in the next decade. There is a great deal of elasticity in the system due to the high volume of short and easily replaceable car journeys that take place today. Many in parts of London that can already be classified as 15 minute cities. Even our local Conservative Councillors have called Chiswick a 15 Minute City. I know from living here for 20+ years that there are many local car journeys that are easily substitutable. I used to make them myself and I have substituted them. And actually I think we will see road user pricing as well. Well before 2030. The government should and will take a keen interest in London leading the way on development and implementation of the scheme in order for them to extend it to the rest of the UK. One of my hobbies is campaigning to change the way we use urban space. I've met some great friends through that hobby. There are many really brilliant people devoting a lot of their spare time to making our City healthier and more liveable. Funnily enough it was the incivility of people on this forum towards cyclists and campaigners for active travel that got me into the hobby in the first place. So I have Chiswick W4 to thank (special nod to Pembo, Kasner and Moran and the irascible baker) for widening my circle of friends and enriching my life. It is very rewarding to see successful outcomes from the efforts we have made. |