| Comment | I'm looking at having to replace two vehicles - a 14 plate 4x4 and an 11 plate van. Neither are bangers, and annoyingly they only make deliveries into the city centre occasionally. I wouldn't be too unhappy to pay, say, £30 every time one needed to enter, similar to the congestion charge in London. However the way the charges are set up (doubling every time you enter) there's no option to do that.
Replacing two perfectly good vehicles as we try and recover from Covid is not very welcome.
No matter how "green" a new vehicle is, there's a huge amount of embedded energy (and hence pollution) in it. I know the zone is concerned with local emissions, restrictions make sense, but making it completely unusable for older vehicles has other consequences that I don't think the council have thought much about. |
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