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London LEZ scheme results in low number of appeals
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LONDON'S ROAD user charging chief adjudicator says the capital's Low Emission Zone (LEZ) has produced only "a handful of appeals" following its launch last year.
As a result, plans to provide further training for adjudicators sitting on appeal tribunals have been dropped, and the number of available sittings has been reduced.
Transport for London's (TIL) controversial clean air scheme was opposed by the Freight Transport Association (FTA) for being "an expensive folly" with few environmental benefits. However. ETA regional head of policy Gordon Telling says it hasn't received any enquiries from members who have received penalty charge notices for flouting the LEZ emission rules.
"TfL, to its credit, was reasonably co-operative over teething problems and operated a fairly light touch at the beginning of the scheme," he says.
London Mayor Boris Johnson said earlier this year that he would postpone phase three of the LEZ roll-out, which would bring light CVs and vans within the scope of the scheme, until 2012 in light of the economic downturn. TIL is consulting the public on this proposal.
Telling says that in commercial terms. the delay saves Tft, "tens of millions of pounds': adding: "You'd be asking how many Transits there are out there between nine and 11 years old. It spent £45m on signage and communications for phases one and two. To contact a couple of thousand companies that are not members of trade bodies to do phase three costs a lot of money,
"I am pleased EL is being prudent with its money."