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12.5 GBP is a laughable sum as a pollution charge. Wonder if work was done to model public health costs as this price. Is it inflation indexed?
by killingtime74 4y ago
12.5 GBP is a laughable sum as a pollution charge. Wonder if work was done to model public health costs as this price. Is it inflation indexed?
- matthewmacleod 4y agoI have no idea if you are claiming this amount is too low or too high.
- danuker 4y agoRemains to be seen what happens. It depends on how pollution goes after.
- oakesm9 4y agoThis is just an expansion of the existing ULEZ which has had a fairly positive effect since it was introduced in 2016: https://www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/air_quality_in_london_2016-2020_october2020final.pdf https://www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/air_quality_in...
- killingtime74 4y agoSry should have been clear, too low. So low it's easy to ignore
- bbbbb5 4y agoAverage Londoner earns something like 40k GBP/yr. If they have to pay the congestion charge every day, that'll eat up 12.5% of their annual income. But I agree, it'd be nice if the charge was 100GBP per day and I was the only person on the roads.
- killingtime74 4y agoI think the hope is with the fee on an average day you don't drive and you drive only when you really need it so the proportion of income should be lower and the fee higher to compensate.
- pifm_guy 4y agoIt's £12.50 per vehicle per day. I doubt that public health costs of a single vehicle used for a single day add up to anywhere near that much - perhaps only 1% or less of that.