Diesel ban, Bristol

[wizzo337]

If people allow it to happen, it's their own fault. Fight it, get your bums out on the streets. Vote of no confidence in the council concerned.

[Kevin Williams]

Just seeing the comments about Birmingham reminded me of a situation in the late 1970s, when I worked for the transport authority.

Lots of noise then from city shop owners led by the manager of Woolworths about the sea of buses using the famous one way loop [created by Chamberlain?] around Corporation St, Colmore Row and New St [hope I've got those right] creating pollution and so discouraging shoppers and the need for more central car parks. It festered on for a while until there was a bus drivers strike. After Day 4 of the strike, said Woolworths manager was pleading for a settlement as his takings were down 50% and he would struggle to pay his business rates...

Funnily enough we never heard about bus pollution ever again. Some shoppers did go in and slag him off for not wanting their business if they came by bus.

New St. did get pedestrianised years later and bus stops mainly moved further out

[bl52krz]

It is all a scam to get their (council) hands in your wallet. Nothing to do with ‘global warming’ which is the other scam. Global warming, like global cooling, has been happening before humans were ever here.

[Lancpudn]

Local authorities are only doing what the Government has mandated them to do & that's to reduce emissions YOY to reach NetZero.


The UK is legally bound by law to achieve these measures.
"The UK is the first country to enter legally binding long-term carbon budgets into legislation, first introduced as part of the 2008 Climate Change Act. Since then, 5 carbon budgets have been put into law putting the UK on track to meet our ambitious goal to eliminate our contribution to climate change by 2050 and achieve net zero emissions. "

• The sixth Carbon Budget will commit us in law to the fastest fall in greenhouse gas emissions of any major economy between 1990 and 2035, making it one of the most ambitious climate targets in the world
• on 9 December, the Climate Change Committee (CCC) published its advice on the level at which to set Carbon Budget 6 (CB6), covering 2033 to 2037. The CCC recommended that CB6 should be set at 965 MtCO2e, reducing emissions 78% from 1990 to 2035 (including international aviation and shipping emissions)
• https://www.gov.uk/government/news/u...-by-78-by-2035

Have a read of the 2020 Environmental Act, It makes for eye opening reading.

[bl52krz]

Its a bit like the ‘ozone layer’. We were all going to die. Still not up to full power even now Funny, cause I think I am still here? Unless you know better. Answers on a pin head please. According to the brain cell, thunberg, we had 2 years before the world tipped ,and we would all die because of GW. That was 3 years ago. What happened there? Again.......it’s all for money.

[wraymond]

I'm curious about why the relevant authorities have never prosecuted the Thunberg Twerp's parents with child abuse.

[Bogbrush82]

Originally Posted by wraymond

I'm curious about why the relevant authorities have never prosecuted the Thunberg Twerp's parents with child abuse.

Probably because having Thurnberg as a child is punishment enough.

[gnu]

Bristol’s ULEZ came into force last Nov. Luckily both my Late(ish) ZT (1.8) and 25 (1.6) are compliant. My concern is they start to screw down the emission requirements as time goes on…

[goltho]

Originally Posted by grivas

Ah the wonders of democracy, and the morons elected to apply its principles.

The ultimate morons are the ones who vote them in.

[torque2me]

Originally Posted by bl52krz

Well most people moan and moan about it, .......do something about it then. No good sitting on your backside. I have made up my mind that I will never ,ever, go to Birmingham shopping again. My wife and I , over many many years, have spent tens of thousands of £s in the shops there. Since the ban on certain vehicles, Rover 75s diesel’s, I have one, have to pay a polluting tax, so that mine does not pollute once paid, they can stick it up their a#@. They can do without my money. If everyone did the same, where would the shops make a living? The idiots who control Birmingham would be made to wake up. But I expect that most chuffers will say, Wellll, What can you do? Talk about dead in the water.

Spot on! When the town/shopping centres become ghost areas (probably only the walking dead will be allowed) and business dies of or transfers eleswhere will all this be seen as destructive. However, the destructers will never be found or be around anymore.


Kev