But people don’t want to cut emissions they want to get where they want cheaply, which means using old diesel vans/taxis/cars.
And not wanting to pay for clean air zones or newer modes of transport
Well yeah, I just stopped going to Birmingham.. Just go to Solihull now.
Presumably now everyone in Birmingham is starving to death and dying in the street as ambulances cant get in. Also, you can’t even drive to McDonalds.
Also, I saw a cyclist riding on the pavement. They should be taxed and insured like the rest of us.
How do I get a clean air zone where I live?
Good news, but it does remind me of when I tried to get to Birmingham by bus to save me parking at my mates.
One bus to get there for me. One of the X routes, so should have a far degree of confidence. Meant to come every 20 minutes, I got there 10 mins before it was meant to arrive but ended up waiting an hour extra before one turned up. When trying to head home, I waited for an hour and a half alongside around 20 other people, by which point the time for the last bus had come and gone. Google maps kept updating to say delayed until eventually they all just disappeared. Ended up having to get an Uber.
Every time I have tried to use public transport to get to Birmingham it has been shit, and I only live 10 miles away.
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Essentially a 50 minute round journey ended up taking me just over 4 hours.
I actually question this claim as I live in Birmingham. There are certain places around the city where they have essentially kettled traffic which can be at a stand still for a while which leads to a build up of particulates in that localised area. This is not the long term answer. Public transport prices going down and proper investment in local infrastructure. More electric charging points although I acknowledge we are second to London on the front. But most importantly actually make electric vehicles affordable for the average person. That is what will help the most.
As a local, non-compliant vehicles have moved to the ring road to get from one side of town to the other, traffic on the ring road most days is horrific and has most certainly pushed the pollution further out to the suburbs.
My vehicle is CAZ compliant and that only means I can travel via the tunnels to get to where I need to go. I haven’t had any need to stop in the city centre for over three years.
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Of course it does.
But people don’t want to cut emissions they want to get where they want cheaply, which means using old diesel vans/taxis/cars.
And not wanting to pay for clean air zones or newer modes of transport
Well yeah, I just stopped going to Birmingham.. Just go to Solihull now.
Presumably now everyone in Birmingham is starving to death and dying in the street as ambulances cant get in. Also, you can’t even drive to McDonalds.
Also, I saw a cyclist riding on the pavement. They should be taxed and insured like the rest of us.
How do I get a clean air zone where I live?
Good news, but it does remind me of when I tried to get to Birmingham by bus to save me parking at my mates.
One bus to get there for me. One of the X routes, so should have a far degree of confidence. Meant to come every 20 minutes, I got there 10 mins before it was meant to arrive but ended up waiting an hour extra before one turned up. When trying to head home, I waited for an hour and a half alongside around 20 other people, by which point the time for the last bus had come and gone. Google maps kept updating to say delayed until eventually they all just disappeared. Ended up having to get an Uber.
Every time I have tried to use public transport to get to Birmingham it has been shit, and I only live 10 miles away.
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Essentially a 50 minute round journey ended up taking me just over 4 hours.
I actually question this claim as I live in Birmingham. There are certain places around the city where they have essentially kettled traffic which can be at a stand still for a while which leads to a build up of particulates in that localised area. This is not the long term answer. Public transport prices going down and proper investment in local infrastructure. More electric charging points although I acknowledge we are second to London on the front. But most importantly actually make electric vehicles affordable for the average person. That is what will help the most.
As a local, non-compliant vehicles have moved to the ring road to get from one side of town to the other, traffic on the ring road most days is horrific and has most certainly pushed the pollution further out to the suburbs.
My vehicle is CAZ compliant and that only means I can travel via the tunnels to get to where I need to go. I haven’t had any need to stop in the city centre for over three years.