Aren’t *cheap* used cars widely not a ‘thing’ anywhere in the UK currently? It’s not just London that’s struggling with that.
Little surprise that the poorest are being priced out of viable transportation.
Most petrol cars manufactured in the last 20 years are within the ULEZ standards (Euro 4 standard, which became mandatory in 2005 but available before that). That’s a very large percentage of the 2nd hand market.
Headline should say.
London households face shortage of badge snobbery used cars to avoid pollution zone ULEZ fee.
There’s currently 23,000 cars that come up on Autotrader (keyword ULEZ) for sale. I assume 90% of them are compliant.
Also would like to add the transport system in London is half decent so people really should be using it.
Nobody in London should be driving. TFL is good enough.
We rarely use our (non-compliant) car – it does around 15 local miles a week and we use it for longer journeys outside London only two or three times a year.
Our choices now are £2500 per year for a replacement or £1200 per year on ULEZ charges.
The sledge hammer approach they’ve gone for with the extended area is out of order really. We can deal with it, but there are many who can’t and it will vastly over inflate the price of second hand cars.
There should have been a staggered introduction with a limited amount of journeys permitted for a time and a scrappage scheme for all so that polluting cars are destroyed rather than sold on. ULEZ makes 1 million pounds a day and the extended zone will increase that further so there are plenty of funds available to ease the transition.
And to all the people stating that it’s fine to go out and buy a 20 year old petrol car, how long do you think it will be until they are deemed non-compliant?
Edit: lol @ triggered downvotes for actual truth.
London households don’t really need cars, common sense shows.
Dunno what they’re talking about, the 8 year old estate car I bought cost me a mere £18,000.
Thank god my Mk 1 Focus made it through another years MOT – you can prise it from my cold dead hands!
I am a resident of Kingston upon Thames and I’m looking to survey other residents about this and outstanding vehicle finance on non-compliant vehicles.
Outer London residents are welcome too! This will certainly impact me, I want to know how many others have concerns that have not been aired.
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Aren’t *cheap* used cars widely not a ‘thing’ anywhere in the UK currently? It’s not just London that’s struggling with that.
Little surprise that the poorest are being priced out of viable transportation.
Most petrol cars manufactured in the last 20 years are within the ULEZ standards (Euro 4 standard, which became mandatory in 2005 but available before that). That’s a very large percentage of the 2nd hand market.
Headline should say.
London households face shortage of badge snobbery used cars to avoid pollution zone ULEZ fee.
There’s currently 23,000 cars that come up on Autotrader (keyword ULEZ) for sale. I assume 90% of them are compliant.
Also would like to add the transport system in London is half decent so people really should be using it.
Nobody in London should be driving. TFL is good enough.
We rarely use our (non-compliant) car – it does around 15 local miles a week and we use it for longer journeys outside London only two or three times a year.
Our choices now are £2500 per year for a replacement or £1200 per year on ULEZ charges.
The sledge hammer approach they’ve gone for with the extended area is out of order really. We can deal with it, but there are many who can’t and it will vastly over inflate the price of second hand cars.
There should have been a staggered introduction with a limited amount of journeys permitted for a time and a scrappage scheme for all so that polluting cars are destroyed rather than sold on. ULEZ makes 1 million pounds a day and the extended zone will increase that further so there are plenty of funds available to ease the transition.
And to all the people stating that it’s fine to go out and buy a 20 year old petrol car, how long do you think it will be until they are deemed non-compliant?
Edit: lol @ triggered downvotes for actual truth.
London households don’t really need cars, common sense shows.
Dunno what they’re talking about, the 8 year old estate car I bought cost me a mere £18,000.
Thank god my Mk 1 Focus made it through another years MOT – you can prise it from my cold dead hands!
I am a resident of Kingston upon Thames and I’m looking to survey other residents about this and outstanding vehicle finance on non-compliant vehicles.
Outer London residents are welcome too! This will certainly impact me, I want to know how many others have concerns that have not been aired.
[Kingston Residents Survey – Vehicle Finance & ULEZ](https://freeonlinesurveys.com/s/Ukf9WGZi)