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Not all heroes wear capes.
There are conversations that need to be had about driving cars and what needs to happen before the amount of cars on the road can be drastically reduced, but looking at how people are reacting to ULEZ it seems unlikely that those conversations are gonna happen anytime soon.
People adversely affected by ULEZ could be asking "okay, how do we make it so people who can't afford this charge can get to where they need to go?" or "what is needed to make public transport more accessible?" or even "is it really cost effective to hold onto a car that's 18 years old anyway?" But no, instead we've got this fingers-in-ears approach at the first sign of inconvenience and discomfort.
And I don't think it's okay to simply wait until people are ready to be adults about this when we already have 9 year olds dying from air pollution. Plans for a Greater Manchester clean air zone have already been put on hold, and neither the Tory nor Labour leadership are fans of ULEZ. If we can't even get people to stop driving the most dangerous vehicles, how the hell do we get to a place where people are ready to back away from cars altogether?
I'm disabled and I need my car for work, and yes the thought of being asked to give it up is something that gets me worrying, but at the end of the day the planet is burning and children are dying. Changes will be needed from all of us, and my needs as a disabled person and a key worker do not trump that. I will find a way to cope and so will you.
Boris Johnson criticizing ULEZ, as if he wasn't the London mayor that announced ULEZ in the first place
Maybe I'm just being incredibly childish, but I find the acronym ULEZ (Ultra Low Emission Zone) so funny.
"U LEZ!" is what they used to scream at me in the corridors at school, so to see politicians debating it as a Serious Topic is amusing me greatly.
Fines rescinded after Standard intervenes
"The demands came from TfL’s European debt recovery firm Euro Parking Collections. Despite EPC being registered in Islington, she said it wrote to her from Uzbekistan – and told her to pay the money into a German bank account."
"TfL issues hundreds of thousands of Ulez penalty fines to drivers of non-UK registered vehicles each year, the Standard has learned.
It relies upon DVLA records to check UK-registered vehicles – but as there is no single system for non-UK vehicles, owners are required to notify it in advance if their vehicles are Ulez compliant."
