London pollution & ULEZ

[b0rn2sk8]

As much as the tube is a huge asset for London, much of it needs a complete rebuild to deal with the Victorian legacy.

You only have to spend 3 minutes on the likes of the Jubilee line or the Elizabeth line to realise the central line just needs to be binned and rebuilt. It’s beyond modernisation at this point.

 

[jonneymendoza]

As much as the tube is a huge asset for London, much of it needs a complete rebuild to deal with the Victorian legacy.

You only have to spend 3 minutes on the likes of the Jubilee line or the Elizabeth line to realise the central line just needs to be binned and rebuilt. It’s beyond modernisation at this point.

Same with most of the underground lines

 

[b0rn2sk8]

Same with most of the underground lines

Well yes, they were mostly built in the Victorian era. I only singled out the central line because it also has the heat issue and zero ventilation shafts.

 

[Blackjack Davy]

ULEZ is in place to take more from the tax payer, it has never been about people's health.

Thats funny, report says otherwise. You'd almost think people fell for right wing "muh freedomz to pollute everywhere" propaganda, wouldn't you.

Ulez helped London cut road pollution faster than rest of UK, report says

Exclusive: Sadiq Khan hails ‘remarkable progress’ on air quality, with NO2 pollutants lower last year than in lockdown year of 2020

www.theguardian.com

 

[Bear]

Thats funny, report says otherwise. You'd almost think people fell for right wing "muh freedomz to pollute everywhere" propaganda, wouldn't you.

Ulez helped London cut road pollution faster than rest of UK, report says

Exclusive: Sadiq Khan hails ‘remarkable progress’ on air quality, with NO2 pollutants lower last year than in lockdown year of 2020

www.theguardian.com

Quite. Seems an odd thing to say when 95% of the cars are Ulez compliant

Nine in 10 cars meet ULEZ standards in expanded zone

However, that falls to 86% of vans entering London’s ULEZ meeting the required emissions standards.

www.fleetnews.co.uk

ULEZ compliance data

This page includes information about how TfL measures and reports Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) compliance levels.

tfl.gov.uk

 

[imtoooldforthis]

https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/sadiq-khan-ulez-london-5HjdDhw_2/

 

[b0rn2sk8]

I’d never have thought limiting a relatively small number of the most polluting vehicles from entering the most densely populated area in the U.K. was actually a good idea and for the benefit of everyone who lives and works there.

I’m flabbergasted.

/S.

 

[mid_gen]

It's been about 15 years since I lived in London, and on visiting a few times recently it's been really noticeable how much more of a clean and pleasant place it is to be as a pedestrian. The days when you'd get back from a day in central and be blowing black gunk out your nose and washing grime off your face are gone. Traffic everywhere is much lower, particularly around the busy areas like Oxford Street/Regent Street which actually feel like 'people first' space now rather than the gridlocked mess they used to be.

Vast improvement., a great success.

 

[b0rn2sk8]

Yup totally agree. It’s certainly not the rolling fields of Suffolk in terms of pollution but I’m definitely not letting ‘better than it was’ get in the way of perfect.

 

[Diddums]

Having worked in building maintenance in London for 20 years, the difference in our air filters now versus then are night and day. Filters that we used to change monthly are now lasting a year, and my team don't avoid the job like they did back then, when doing it meant you were written off for the rest of the day as you'd be covered from top to toe in disgusting black diesel soot. And despite what the PPE companies will tell you, no coveralls, no respirators, no face masks, none of it would protect you. Start on the filters, and your day was done.

Very different nowadays, for the better.