Bristol to become the UK's first city to ban diesel cars from entering parts of the city centre

£100 for buses! Isn’t increasing public transport use meant to be the solution?

An outright diesel ban seems to be a step too far given the nox output of a euro6 isn’t much higher than its petrol equivalent. I can understand not wanting HGVs about during the most polluting times but it’s going to cause havoc on retailers who get daily deliveries of perishable goods.

Either way it needs the government to pass legislation to allow it, I can’t see that happening any time soon, especially under a conservative governments.
 
I think this is the way that all cities will go, London already has the congestion zone and now the new emissions zone. In London if you live within the zone and have a business and required a van, you have to pay. It's certainly not cheap. Here's to us northern cave dwellers.
 
goldy6660 said:
I think this is the way that all cities will go, London already has the congestion zone and now the new emissions zone. In London if you live within the zone and have a business and required a van, you have to pay. It's certainly not cheap. Here's to us northern cave dwellers.
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Sheffield is considering a "clean air zone", but will initially only be charging vans, taxis, hgvs and buses, between 12 and 50 quid a day (vehicle type dependant) but won't be charging private cars.

Local bus company's depot was Just outside the proposed zone then the council changed it to include the depot. Since the announcement the bus company has been put up for sale by the parent company...
 
Getting busses and lorries moved over to electric go will make a big difference.
You dont half notice the stink diesels put out when you have an open top car sitting next to a bloody great truck or something.

Yuk.
 
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Sheffield is considering a "clean air zone", but will initially only be charging vans, taxis, hgvs and buses, between 12 and 50 quid a day (vehicle type dependant) but won't be charging private cars.

Local bus company's depot was Just outside the proposed zone then the council changed it to include the depot. Since the announcement the bus company has been put up for sale by the parent company...
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Sheffield's one-way system was designed by someone (a lady -although that doesn't matter) who doesn't drive, rides a road bicycle and has never driven a car...ever. ridiculous....
 
I maybe completely wrong on this
But it makes me wonder how long it be till they start banning all diesel & petrol cars from more & more places to forced people into electric cars

The biggest problem is there far too many vehicles on the roads these days :(:mad:. But I have no idea what can be done about this
 
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The Government is a lot to blame for the amount of diesel cars on the road due to the very high cost of TAX & Duty on fuel that has pushed many people from a petrol car to a diesel car
 
People dismissed it as nonsence when this was predicted last year...

Diesel bans will spread because the government now want them all gone. They will leave petrol to decline on its own by 2040.
 
It’s been clear for a while this is the way it is going with diesels. People called it scaremongering... guess they look silly now.
 
Diesel is noticeably in the toilet now (sadly i own 2 of them :p) I have a lot of colleagues who lease using car allowances, who have generally always had diesel, yet so many are now abandoning it. Employers are increasingly moving towards anti diesel incentives too, including my own.

Looks like its all snowballing and will escalate to making them unwanted and a bit of a pain if you plan to drive into centres.
 
I wish they’d apply the same requirements to trains, the general air quality is dire on train stations. Especially those which are covered or where trains terminate. They always leave the engines idling spewing out fumes across the platforms.
 
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