Listening to various folk discussing the proposed enlargement of the ULEZ , although it won't affect me at all but it pisses me off that Khan can be allowed to get away with this money grabbing scheme.
Well, in defence of the useless moron, many other cities are implementing similar money grabbing schemes, as the motorist is evil and a socially easy target.
No, there is no defending “President Khan”. He changed the rules every time it went against him and even the “loaded” questions on the proposal consultation were designed to work for him (and still managed to do the opposite). Example was that when the votes were all counted, it was something like 87% against it, so he decided to exclude anyone not living inside the zone, so all those that would be affected just outside it had no say.
In my work, we have 45 employees in our branch on average, 36 of them live outside the zone currently and 29 will still be outside it when it expands. Each one of them has to travel into the new zone. How many have to change their cars just to get to work or find alternative employment (2 have already handed in their notice as not worth the grief and are going elsewhere purely based on ULEZ). How many customers have cars that are not going to be compliant that will either go elsewhere to service their car outside the zone, change car to another brand if inside the new zone or something else?
He only got back in last time as West London voted for him and they have the higher concentration of voters.
I could rant for ages on that cretin but you get my gist. And the main reason that other place are doing the same is because of the revenue generated by the initial LEZ (commercial diesel vehicles). What they forgot is the damage it does to the commercial and retail sectors. Not as bad on inner London areas, but will potentially decimate outer London and Kent/Surrey/Essex areas over time.
