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In the wake of London’s Islington Council announcing it wants to ban cars from 70% of its roads, Hackney Council went further yesterday and said it will bar cars from 75% of its tarmac. The anti-car march continues – from London to Scotland to other parts of the world, this is getting very depressing for car lovers.
As justification for the ULEZ Expansion to the whole of London, the thing you keep hearing from Mayor Sadiq Khan is that it’ll save 4000 lives. Those death are linked to respiratory, lung cancer and cardiovascular diseases. Though surely they can’t all just be directly linked to air pollution caused by cars. As tragic as it absolutely is, there is in fact only one death registered in London that’s officially listed as due to air pollution. So where is the 4000 figure from? Watch this – you’ll be shocked!
A couple of weeks ago, SNP’s Net Zero Minister, Michael Matheson, said that the Scottish government is looking to cut down car usage by 20% by 2030. He went further, and this is also in his Strategic Transport Report, that the era of catering for unconstrained growth in private car use is well and truly over. WHAT?!
London Mayor Sadiq Khan, is going ahead with plans to expand the ULEZ – Ultra Low Emission Zone – to cover the whole of Greater London right up to the M25. It will hit hardest on those already suffering from the cost of living crisis and will banish classic cars from the city’s streets. Plus he has no mandate for (80% of Greater Londoners were against it) and negligible benefit (according to his own TFL-led report). Here’s why.
Continue reading “ULEZ: Everything you Need to Know!”
Alec Drew of www.alecwdrew.com talks to me about my career and how I started BrownCarGuy
British Volt which was going to set up a huge GigaFactory in the UK, has gone out of business. Why is this a huge blow for the British automotive industry, and what it could mean for you and me?
Mayor Sadiq Khan announced he’s increasing London transport fare prices by 5.9%, a bit more than the 4% originally mooted last year.
In less than 30 years from now, most of us won’t be able to have our own cars, and many of the major car manufacturers we know and love today – will have disappeared. Yes, the personal car is about to go extinct. Don’t believe me? Keep reading and I’ll explain exactly why.
So a Muslim in the UK, a Jew in America and a Christian in Holland walk into a YouTube video and… uh oh!!
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