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This will cost my family £90 + per week, or we buy two new cars.
Wife’s route to work goes straight through the zone, or she goes round and moves the alleged pollution to another Bristol area. I take our youngest, who has special educational needs and medical needs, to school in the area and the children’s hospital in the zone. He has extra curricular activities at the weekend too so that’s another £18. £108 per week.
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Having started to look into this further, the council’s own studies into the current traffic show that 71% of the vehicles entering the zone meet the standards and wouldn’t pay. So the improvement in air quality will come from 29% of vehicles. They want to improve NOx.
A euro 3, KV6 will have to pay, but a euro 6 diesel won’t. Which emits the most NOx? http://www.eea.europa.eu/publication...port-emissions The EU says the Euro 6 diesel.
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My Borough Council (Wellingborough) has just spent £5m on a refurbishment of its Multi Storey Carpark and increased its capacity by 200 spaces. In addition, parking is free throughout the Borough including this car park, so what happens - the Authority is being abolished on 31st March to be absorbed into a new Unitary Council which nobody voted for! Progress indeed, but you are all still welcome to visit Wellingborough. There is even a surface car park with 450 spaces which is hardly used on a Sunday - NanoMeet??
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I asked my dad if this would affect him. Apparently part of the zone is in his current route to work. Rather than pay the charge he will just drive around it, driving further, so more pollution, and polluting a different area. Or in the summer he can ride his bikes to work through the emissions zone.
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We can’t avoid it. £108 per week.
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Are they going to ban buses, emergency vehicles, delivery vehicles etc. I myself think that exhaust emissions are responsible for serious health problems and I can follow the logic behind the ban, however it may well have the effect of further putting the final nails into the coffin that most city centres have become, time will tell, after all we are living in unprecedented times, I am not sure what that really means?. |
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Well, with 3,750 new houses on Stanton Cross and 4,000 on Glenvale Park I suspect it was forward planning!
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