Check out @StolenWheels’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/StolenWheels/status/980744461243375616?s=09
Shame the bike wasn’t covered with an invisibility cloak like tfl suggests.
Just shows how little they really care
Check out @StolenWheels’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/StolenWheels/status/980744461243375616?s=09 BigtyBunch of scumbags. There was no need to brake the car window.
MAG have a demo run arranged for the 21st April
The MAG which was founded to protest the compulsory helmet law and whose stated position is still that it is disgrace? Good luck to them in gaining sympathy by convincing the vast majority of non-bike riding Londoners that motorcycles do not produce any pollution.
The chance of the ULEZ being scrapped is zero, and the extension to the north and south circulars only fractionally more.
GSX650F is a good choice
Yeah, a NC700 might be a good commuter but at half the bhp as my Fazer it really ain't going to be fun out of town or on track.
Arfa
Especially when the survey questions are all loaded.
The chance of the ULEZ being scrapped is zero, and the extension to the north and south circulars only fractionally more.
Michael
All this ULEZ charging is just a stealth tax, it’s a revenue stream for TfL probably to fund the fat cat salaries, bonuses and pensions. The bottom line is if London’s air pollution problem could really be tackled by implementing these extortionate charges on motorists then the Government would have sorted it by raising the tax bands accordingly of the vehicles producing these high emissions. That way the air pollution problem across every city in the country is tackled.
Worth remembering we don’t have an emissions test on our bikes at MOT. Long may that continue so we can keep running loud decat pipes.
The "air pollution problem" is worse in denser cities than emptier countryside, because the problem is not the simple existence of the chemicals and particles, but their *density*. That's why this is beginning in the larger cities where the pollution production is more dense and the air movement is less (so London's first in the UK, but other cities have plans). The intention is not that millions of motorists pay £12.50 to get into London to fund these TFL 'fat cats', but that drivers *don't* pay it and so London's pollution levels can come down towards the legal limits.
All this ULEZ charging is just a stealth tax, it's a revenue stream for TfL probably to fund the fat cat salaries, bonuses and pensions. The bottom line is if London's air pollution problem could really be tackled by implementing these extortionate charges on motorists then the Government would have sorted it by raising the tax bands accordingly of the vehicles producing these high emissions. That way the air pollution problem across every city in the country is tackled.
National Treasure
Solving the density problem might be a better thing to do for the whole population. e.g. encourage remote working, Incentivise businesses starting and moving to the regions. It gives a much better work / life balance and improves both physical and mental health as a result. Life doesn’t end at the M25 contrary to popular belief.
& to think no one has mentioned the pollution caused by heating boilers
Solving the *density* problem might be a better thing to do for the whole population. e.g. encourage remote working, Incentivise businesses starting and moving to the regions. It gives a much better work / life balance and improves both physical and mental health as a result. Life doesn't end at the M25 contrary to popular belief.Putting aside that TfL can only deal with the specific problem in front of them, they cannot set government policy nor wait for years of cultural transformation, you then must agree obviously with the ULEZ. If it is supposedly an unpopular policy that people were only tricked into supporting with loaded questions, surely it will force them to leave London in disgust, or at least to save replacing their vehicle.. Have you left yet, as you previously suggested you would?
TheMonkey27
Not gone yet. Looking at work options at the moment.Putting aside that TfL can only deal with the specific problem in front of them, they cannot set government policy nor wait for years of cultural transformation, you then must agree obviously with the ULEZ. If it is supposedly an unpopular policy that people were only tricked into supporting with loaded questions, surely it will force them to leave London in disgust, or at least to save replacing their vehicle.. Have you left yet, as you previously suggested you would?
Michael
...leave London in disgust... Have you left yet... Michael
Yes and yes and for many other reasons to boot, London has become the ghetto capital of the UK.
How is this going to work with updating the Euro 3 standards, is there any indication when the standards will go up?
To Euro 4 you mean?
I just traded my blade for a zx10r, literally this week. I’ve used ULEZ as the excuse to get the zx10r but the reality was I knew I only had a year left with the older bike.
To Euro 4 you mean? yourebarred
- Euro 3 for motorcycles, mopeds, motorised tricycles and quadricycles (L category)
- Euro 4 for petrol cars, vans, minibuses and other specialist vehicles
- Euro 6 for diesel cars, vans and minibuses and other specialist vehicles
- Euro VI for lorries, buses and coaches and other specialist heavy vehicles