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Colin Rosenstiel · August 31st 07, 11:06 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
(Mike Hughes) wrote:

I can understand the desire to make the environment better and as a
taxi driver sitting in traffic I would benefit from it, but to have
to make everyone retro fit rather than allow for natural turnover
with a higher standard for newer vehicles is not going to win many
friends in motoring circles. What about the costs - they will be
passed on somehow so how does that benefit people?

An alternative applied in Cambridge banning vehicles over 8 years old
from being licensed as Hackneys. The basis for doing it that way is the
confusion over standards preventing them from requiring retro-fitting.

How did Ken do it? Special legislation in London again?

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Colin Rosenstiel