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The most polluting trucks will soon be ned from entering
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London under Ken rigstones tough new pollution standards. When the mayor laid out his Air Quality itegy for the Capital last week, he stressed determination to deal with the causes of ution before forging ahead with plans for -emission zones, Speaking exclusively to CM, Livingstone s road traffic is the main culprit, and up to 0 people die prematurely in eondon every e because of its air quality "What we want to get is an agreement the owners of the vehicle fleets that we have an early retirement of the most polig vehicles," he adds. "Over the next cou ple of months we will be sitting down and talking to them before we finalise the low-emission zone strategy:' The mayor wants to get government backing for tax breaks in a bid to speed up the process and help operators. "Otherwise the cost of half a billion pounds will be borne by businesses in London," he warns, But Ray Dickson, MD for Croydon-based F Dickson Transport, feels the Mayor's strategy will persecute the minority. His entire fleet is second-hand and he says: "The immediate effect, if it was based on age lime, would be to cripple us."
A Freight Transport Association spokesman says the industry is in urgent need of deadlines if it is to be in a position to react to the plan: "We are saying a minimum of three-and-a-half years to phase it in. We must have a 'Yenned rolling programme.., operators need time."