London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone – ULEZ – one month in towards destroying London as an employment hub with “arbitrary and capricious” taxation by the anti-white, anti-poor "Mayor"

Only those readers the least bit interested in London, its transport systems and the sheer and utter drudgery and discomfort caused by Marxist central planning should read this. Though I suspect this is probably happening in every major city on earth right

From here:

ULEZ: South Londoners split on Sadiq Khan and TfL’s clean-air scheme - one month in (msn.com)

The poorest people in London, those who rely most on cheaper, older cars and those in the outer suburbs who already have clean air - have now had a month of the 12.50 daily charge (around 15 bucks) – which is on top of the daily Congestion Charge of 15 pounds (around 18 bucks) for certain areas, also within the ULEZ.

Mayor Sadiq Khan – an obvious anti-white racist and Marxist destroyer of everything he touches, is back from his jaunt to worship at the Cult of Moloch at the United Nations in New York with his handful of highly paid “people of colour, bag carriers” to say things like “shame about that, but it’s for your own good”.

He actually makes statements like the below that his own staff say are BS – and I’m sure that those in the leafy outer suburbs simply cannot reconcile to actual facts:

“It was a very tough decision to expand the zone, but with toxic air leading to around 4,000 premature deaths each year and our children growing up with stunted lungs, it is the right thing to do.”

He could have said 1,000 premature deaths or 10,000, all the numbers are plucked out of his a$$ and have no basis In fact.

But look at what a nice guy he is being with other people’s money to enact an unnecessary and useless extension into areas of London that have perfectly good air quality already.

“On the day the ULEZ was expanded, Mr Khan said: “We’ve already seen huge progress since I announced the expansion. On the eve of the rollout nine in 10 cars seen driving in the zone on an average day are already compliant and won’t pay a penny. Financial help is available for every single Londoner and small business whose vehicle is not compliant.”

Again, 9 out of 10 cars is a fabrication. He could have said 7 out of 10 or 4 out of 10, it would have just as much validity as far as air quality is concerned.

I posted this a week or so ago.

(100) The real purpose of London’s ULEZ and Congestion Charges – funding trips to woke conferences around the world – h/t to heroic Blade Runners fighting against hypocrisy (substack.com)

Anyway! Moving on. Within the MSN article, the reporter grabbed a few comments. Some liking the charges that others are paying, others figuring out how to keep their businesses that rely on cheap travel costs actually in business.

What I thought I would do is show some pictures of what the collateral impacts would be.

The major one will be the switch to public transport – during rush hours.

Here is an image of the underground tube station during peak “rush hour” where CO2 levels easily approach 2,000 parts per million compared to the 500 parts per million that the chicken little Cult followers claim will herald the end of the earth as we know it.

The images below represent single points out of 100’s repeated across London during rush hours.

And a rush hour train – well not on board the train but in the concourse that passengers pass through to get on the platforms under those platform, times and stations “en route” to destinations you see at the top.

And buses:

Here’s a shot of what I think is the M4 to and from Heathrow to London.

See if you can work out which cars are compliant and what difference slightly newer cars will make.

These are old pictures that illustrate the crowded conditions on transport systems around London during peak hours between 7-9.30 am and 4 to 7 pm  - Monday to Friday – to catch the majority of people that go to work.

So, if you scan the article you will see that the reported interviewed people in Croydon.

Here’s what a Croydon commuter pays on public transport to work in central London.

Croydon is ten miles outside central London and a train journey takes around 45 minutes with no delays but frequently can take an hour or more for items that you would think are completely unrelated like “wet leaves on the track at Deptford”.

Croydon has several rail stations – South, West and East, but most travel from West Croydon. It falls into Zone 5 of the Transport for London’s zoning system.

You can buy an Oyster Card – digital passport (it’s called a digital ID, but hey, it’s a passport!) , contactless payment or a Travel Card. Payments are “capped” at maximum amounts, but hey, it’s complicated!

Here’s the Oyster Card charges from here: 11-15 Zip Oyster photocard prices 2023 (tfl.gov.uk)

And another for Travelcards from here: Fares from 5 March 2023 - Transport for London (tfl.gov.uk)

Now, Londoners can correct me here, but commuters don’t work on weekends, so what is described as a 7 day is really a fiver day and the purchase of a Zone 5 travel card is effectively 70 pounds for 5 days – 14 pounds a day. Is this capped at the 35 pound a week in the table above this one?

What the below is good for, for the same overland train route, I have no idea, from here:

Season Ticket for West Croydon to London Victoria | Trainline (thetrainline.com)

The above is for a single London suburb that has pretty clean air already. Gross that up to reflect the 2 million Londoners that use the underground Tube each day - then factor in those who travel across London without getting off in the center or just travel the outskirt “zones” - not Zone 1 or 2 for central London - and you may wonder where all the money goes from all this expensive public transport and massive city road usage taxation!

Right, finally, here’s the beef.

The London Transport system is already overloaded, poorly ventilated (no air-con) and costs just as much as the ULEZ charge.

Even now, travellers are subject to breathing in levels of CO2 that are, according to the chicken littles, at dangerous levels to their health for two hours a day.

This situation is about to get a lot worse as more people think they can save money by using public transport instead of commuting or conducting business around town (good luck with those ladders, buckets, pipes and cement mixers!).

Maybe the racist mayor is correct and 9 out of 10 people already have cars that he thinks look pretty (they certainly don’t make any difference) – maybe 7 out of ten people use compliant cars to conduct business in London.

I am betting that there will be at least a 10% increase in the usage rates of public transport in the next year – at prices that will have to be adjusted upwards, of course – that is the Marxist way – create a monopoly, force the use of state assets and jack the price. Note the prices for London Transport were jacked 6.3% in March 2023!

Onwards!

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