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Old February 18th 13, 08:39 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default New clean air proposals

Robin9 wrote:
'Brian Watson[_2_ Wrote:
;136184']In a shock move, I hear Boris has now extended his proposals on
improving
the air quality in London even further.

Rather than just tightening up his insistence on low-emission engines
being
phased in, it is believed the mayor will press for all vehicles entering
the
clean-air zone to be powered by hot air.

Having an apparently-unlimited supply of it himself, he....snip

(please keep until April 1st, unless needed before)
--
Brian
"Fight like the Devil, die like a gentleman."


As Boris Johnson has continued Ken Livingstone's policy of impeding road

traffic movement in London, he has zero credibility when he pretends he
cares
about air pollution.

It cannot be stated too often that the reason London's air has
deteriorated
over the past thirteen years is that two grossly irresponsible Mayors
have
encouraged TfL to damage London's road system. It also needs to be
repeated endlessly that the easiest way to reduce air pollution in
London is to
keep road traffic moving.

How would you build Crossrail without disrupting traffic round the station
and tunnel construction sites?