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Angie Schmitt🚶‍♀️
@schmangee
Ultra Low Emissions Zone. Promising climate policy for dense, transit accessible cities.
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Kate Laing
@Kate_Laing
Just 6 months in, London's ULEZ has achieved a 4% reduction in CO2 emissions and a 3-9% reduction in traffic flows. This is above and beyond the impacts of the congestion charge already realised. london.gov.uk/sites/default/
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Jesse Hoff
@hoffsbeefs
What are your thoughts on high acceleration, heavy electric SUVs/pickups. Will they skirt into these ulevs and mitigate the safety benefit?
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Lewis Lehe
@lewislehe
they are getting low emission zones in three or four English cities too. rules and prices vary. I don’t think they will ban suv’s tho. It depends on their engines.
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Robert Kwolek
@RobertKwolek
If only that were so. The ULEZ doesn't look at total emissions, only whether it meets EURO 4 standards: "Petrol cars that meet the ULEZ standards are generally those first registered with the DVLA after 2005, although cars that meet the standards have been available since 2001"
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Eurocanard
@eurocanard
Skeptical - basically the impact of the ULEZ is on older vehicles, not bigger ones. In the US in particular trucks and SUVs account for a growing share of new vehicles, and a ULEZ doesn't address that. The question is whether it takes vehicles off the road...
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david reeves
@dreeves
Love the thought but not sure this is the solution, at least as currently defined in London. Just bans older vehicles that pollute more, not larger ones.
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