Why ULEZ Car Pollution Charge Has Londoners Divided: QuickTake

A levy on drivers of older cars with dirtier engines has pushed many of them off London’s roads, reducing pollution that’s been blamed for thousands of deaths in the capital each year. Yet some Londoners resent the £12.50 ($15.25) daily charge for entering the Ultra Low Emission Zone. When city officials decided to expand it to the city’s outer suburbs, resistance coalescedonline. Some of the cameras that monitor ULEZ compliance by scanning vehicle registration plates were vandalized, and Conservative politicians seized on the issue to score an electoral win against London’s Labour mayor, Sadiq Khan. The hostile reaction showed ...