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London Imposes $16/Day Fee on Dirtiest Cars, And Sparks Debate Across the Pond

London Imposes $16/Day Fee on Dirtiest Cars, And Sparks Debate Across the Pond


Mar 10, 2022

By Kea Wilson

Read More: https://usa.streetsblog.org/2022/03/...ross-the-pond/

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The Big Smoke is about to get a lot less smoky. London’s decision to push past political opposition and impose appropriate fees on the highest-polluting drivers has some U.S. advocates wondering which of their leaders will have the courage to do the same. London Mayor Sadiq Khan drew praise from sustainable transportation advocates when he announced last week that he would expand the city’s Ultra Low Emissions Zone to include the neighborhoods beyond the downtown core by 2023, a move which will subject motorists in the roughly 600-square-mile region to a raft of new fees.

- In addition to the city’s famous congestion charges, which have been in place since way back in 2003, the drivers of older, dirtier cars will now be charged a flat $16.70 per day to move through the greater London area, and motorists with larger vehicles like diesel freight trucks will pay even more. That policy will effectively remove an estimated 20,000-40,000 vehicles from London’s roads every day, an important step towards achieving the city’s goal of achieving net zero emissions by 2030, which experts say will require a 27-percent reduction in car traffic by the end of the decade. Public health experts also praised the legislation, which the mayor’s office said will save Londoners $13.6 billion by 2030 in collective healthcare costs to treat diseases caused by car pollution alone. — London’s new plan is not without its detractors, despite significant concessions the administration has already made. In a release, the mayor’s office noted that it had also considered implementing a “boundary charge,” which would have hit out-of-towners with a fee for entering the greater London area in an automobile, as well an additional “clean air charge” for all but the lowest-emitting vehicles on the road, regardless of their age.

- Leaders in the San Diego region recently backpedaled on a plan that would have imposed an approximately 4-cent-per-mile fee on all motorists, in part because even the region’s heavily Democratic voters balked at the idea of actually paying more for driving more themselves. — The regional planning authority is still considering a tax on developers who build in locations that encourage excess driving, but advocates say it wouldn’t generate enough revenue to implement the area’s ambitious car-light transportation plan, while detractors say the fee would push up the cost of housing in an area that’s already struggling with affordability and high rates of homelessness. Others argued that San Diego’s transit system today isn’t sufficient to handle the needs of motorists who might be tempted to try transit when driving costs increase. — Justin Worland of Time Magazine cited San Diego’s battle as a microcosm of the chicken-and-egg problems facing city leaders who try to raise revenue for active and shared transportation by increasing the cost of driving.

- So far, Khan remains one of the rare leaders to resist pressure to scale back transportation reforms despite challenging political realities especially among the subset of low income residents who are dependent on older, polluting cars they can’t afford to replace. — Stateside, economists like Michael Greenstone, the director of the University of Chicago’s Energy Policy Institute, told Worland that steep road user fees could be offset by rebates and other fee adjustments for people who truly need their cars. Others made the case for even broader packages of support services to aide the transition away from excess driving, like free bus passes, or even retraining for jobs that don’t require long commutes. However they might choose to soften the financial blow to the most vulnerable, Khan is absolutely right that city leaders can’t put off addressing the real costs of car dependence any longer. And the sooner U.S. leaders start, the sooner they can direct those funds to building mobility options that will save everyone money in the long term.

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Old Posted Mar 11, 2022, 7:58 PM
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more of that and keep improving transit and taking out overbuilt street lanes too in cities and its all good.
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...has some U.S. advocates wondering which of their leaders will have the courage to do the same.
The Mayor of the City of New York.

NYC is really the only realistic candidate for such a scheme as Manhattan island is, well, an island with relatively controllable access points in bridges and tunnels. I don't know really know how any other American city, well maybe with the exception of SF or Boston perhaps could implement congestion or emissions pricing like this.
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