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Trucks are not to blame
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Everyone wants to breathe clea — but Barry Proctor wonders w Transport For London will COME clean and admit that cars shoul, included in its plans.
Clean. Smart. Sparkling. Gleaming. Words I've picked out the air to describe my fleet. Most important among these the first clean. I'm not necessarily talking about the out appearance: I'm talking about the exhaust emissions. All trucks are as green as I can get them under the circumst either Euro-3 or older models with particulate traps.
So it was a bit galling this week to receive a consultation paper from Transport for London (TfL) about its plans for the London Low Emission Zone.
The first thing that you notice is the cover: it's a filthy truck covered in handprints and bearing the legend: "Hands up if you want to cut dow pollution from heavy goods vehicles, buses and coaches. Ignoring the implication that all trucks are filth-spewing old bangers, there's the small issue of TfL wrapping its consul. in terms that are virtually impossible to disagree with. We to see less pollution from the aforementioned vehicles, but are conveniently omitted from the proposed rules.
Whoops I forgot, cars carry voters, trucks don't.
It's much the same inside the document. How do you answer the question: "How would you describe air quality London?" Judging by the yellowy-brown cloud that regula hangs over the city I think we all know the answer to that o Another question asks: "How important is it to tackle air qu London?" It's difficult to answer with anything other than .\.o So the respondent is corralled into agreeing that air qL needs tackling, and let's move hell and high water to get TfL's proposals come across as the usual knee-jerk pc response to an obvious problem. If TfL really wanted torn difference, it would create incentives for people to run ultr clean trucks into the zone and add cars to the mix as well pity the folk of our other cities like Manchester and Birmingt After all, if you've got a fleet of compliant and non-compliar trucks, I know which cities you'll send the dirty, polluting on