Should London impose an every-other-day driving ban?

Sassy wrote:
Erm, you didn't notice Paris has already done it?

Lone Wolf wrote:

Sassy wrote:
Erm, you didn't notice Paris has already done it?

  

They should extend it to all of France ~ not just le Capital !

Then next week start on Belgium, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Italy..

Clean up ALL of Europe, not just a few capital cities...     

Tommy Monk wrote:Ban diesels, they are the cause of the most dangerous pollution. PM10's.
The previous odd even number days just punished the poor who could only afford one car, others just bought another car so they had one with odd and other with even so could drive all the time.

Sassy wrote:

Lone Wolf wrote:
  

They should extend it to all of France ~ not just le Capital !

Then next week start on Belgium, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Italy..

Clean up ALL of Europe, not just a few capital cities...     

WHAT?   It's only the capital cities that have the problem, have you ever seen the beautiful countryside of France and it's clean air!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sassy wrote:
Should London impose an every-other-day driving ban?

Free public transport and alternate driving days are being imposed (temporarily) in Paris to tackle dangerous levels of air pollution. London is also experiencing very high atmospheric pollution levels, according to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and 4,000 people die prematurely each year from the effects of pollution

(obviously it would have to take into account the disabled who can't use public transport), but it seems a good idea to me.

Raggamuffin wrote:Every other day? How would that work then?

There's far too much traffic in London - one can hardly move for it. There's loads of public tranport there so I have no idea why so many people drive. I had a car in London, but I hardly ever used it tbh.

eddie wrote:

Sassy wrote:
Should London impose an every-other-day driving ban?

Free public transport and alternate driving days are being imposed (temporarily) in Paris to tackle dangerous levels of air pollution. London is also experiencing very high atmospheric pollution levels, according to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and 4,000 people die prematurely each year from the effects of pollution

(obviously it would have to take into account the disabled who can't use public transport), but it seems a good idea to me.

Whilst I agree in principle, this would severely affect people like my OH who is a black cab driver.

He suffers awfully with air pollution poisoning too, stuffy nose, coughing etc.
He cleans the inside if his windows constantly and they are black with grime!!

Sassy wrote:

eddie wrote:

Whilst I agree in principle, this would severely affect people like my OH who is a black cab driver.

He suffers awfully with air pollution poisoning too, stuffy nose, coughing etc.
He cleans the inside if his windows constantly and they are black with grime!!

I think black cabs are one of the things I would leave out of the ban, apart from anything else, the disabled might need them.