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Guy Sheppard warns that Greater London is set to ban 30% of all truc
A PROPOSED BAN on nearly a third of all trucks entering Greater London has cleared its first hurdle after councillors backed the creation of the UK's first Low Emission Zone (LEZ).
The Association of London Government (ALG)'s transport & environment committee says Euro-2 engines with a reduced pollution certificate (RPC) should become a minimum standard for entering the capital from 2006.
The requirement will be tightened to Euro-3 engines plus an RPC from 2010; all new trucks will have to be powered by Euro-4 engines from next autumn.
Although the decision has yet to be approved by the Greater London Authority and the government, a report to the committee says that doing nothing is not an option if London is to comply with new European air quality standards. It adds that manual enforcement of the LEZ would be the quickest and cheapest method of introducing it, but compliance would probably be low.
The proposal is extremely unpopular with some hauliers. Jim McRedmond, owner of McRed mond Plant Hire & Haulage in Edmonton, North London, says congestion charging and nighttime lorry bans in the capital mean that they already have enough to cope with. "We've cut our fleet from 11 to four over the past year because of all these restrictions," he explains. "Not everybody can afford to run brand new trucks you can't pass the extra costs onto the customer."
In July. a study into the impact of an LEZ estimated that more than a third of the entire British truck parc comes into London each year and around 30% of the fleet would fail to meet the initial LEZ standard (CM 17-23 July).
Geoff Day. Freight Transport Association engineering policy manager, says cars should be included in the LEZ standards because they account for the majority of traffic.
But the report to the ALG committee claims trucks cause far more pollution. "For example," it says, for every kilometre driven the average car emits around 0.3g of Nitrogen Oxides. This can be compared to around 14g for an articulated lorry."