You'll Now Be Charged Extra To Drive An Old Car Into London
You’ll now be charged even more if you want to drive an old car into London. Pass the roadside signs in a car whose emission standards are Euro III or earlier and you’ll have to pay a total of £21.50 for every day you do so. This is the new London T-Charge.
The extra tenner on top of the existing £11.50 Congestion Charge will go straight to London’s coffers, but it’s not yet clear what the money will be spent on. Rough estimates put the number of drivers affected by the extra tax as 6500 per day. That’s theoretically an extra couple of million rolling in annually.
Aimed at cutting nitrogen oxide levels by half after two years, which it will probably do as effectively as the Congestion Charge cut traffic (i.e. not so you’d notice), the T-Charge affects the exact same area as the Congestion Charge – for now.
Environmental campaigners and people who like to write angry things on the Internet are calling for the T-Charge zone to be expanded in 2019 to cover all of Greater London from the North Circular to the South Circular roads. That, as anyone who knows the city will tell you, covers the vast majority of places that you might actually want to get to.
While cars will be lumbered with the £10 charge, coaches, buses and HGVs will have to stump up £100 per day. Expect those Megabus and National Express prices to look steep next time you book.
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Yet another reason to avoid the city center, great
Another reason to move over here to America, where we have V8’s and don’t tax you for not being able to afford a brand new $80,000 car.
Meh, city centres aren’t the places you’d want to drive in.
Man Europe sounds like a terrible place to live now
I actually made a nickname for these people who want new new new,i call them marketing slaves
if i had the money i would move over there buy a old merz 300D and adust the diesel pump and constantly rev it thru the city, blowing the streets full of black smoke in protest to get my money worth, but i live in Norway and own a old volvo that cant drive in a staight line whenever it’s slippery outside…
Do it in Oslo the. I’LL joiner you! This countrys car taes are insane. 130000 euros for a mustang GT, like wtf.
The UK wants to be so much like America, that even they are taking steps to screw over their people with good intentions but terrible ideas.
Yea but at least we dont have a mayor that belives terrorist attacks “part and parcel of living in a big city” lol
LOL, England is trying to go back to it’s roots, by spamming taxes like in the 1770s!
What people are taking of doing as reading that online or seeing it in the news..
The main problem isn’t the cars it’s the way they’re being driven. This problem could be just as easily solved if people started driving like priests. As a 15 year old who is nuts about cars, being told that I’m not going to be allowed to drive many of the cars that teem my bedroom walls in the city I live in is really starting to piss me off.
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