Havering Residents Join Together To March Against ULEZ.
Anti ULEZ protesters gathered together in Romford on Saturday 29 April to make their voices heard against the planned Ultra Low Emission Zone expansion starting in August.
The protest was organised by Michelle from the Havering Against ULEZ campaign and began at the roundabout next to the Brewery shopping centre where residents gathered with banners, whistles and loud speakers shouting out against what they are calling ‘nothing but a money making scheme.’
The busy roundabout in Romford saw the majority of the vehicles going passed tooting their horn in clear support against this campaign.
Protesters are angry that despite a consultation taking place to hear Londoners viewers that revealed that over 60% did not want this scheme in outer London, it is still being enforced by Sadiq Khan. Many also fear the start of the ‘Pay Per Mile’ campaign, now that cameras are being installed across the borough.
Protesters then marched across Romford market where they received a great day of support from stall holders and shoppers who are also going to be impacted by this expansion.
Many across Havering are facing life changing decisions and it is these serious concerns that are making this scheme so unpopular. It is also the lack of transport for some parts of the borough such as Harold Hill and Rainham, that mean residents have to use their vehicles.
The cost of living crisis is adding further pressure to residents who are struggling and have this additional pressure now added to their burdens.
Havering continues its battle.
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Apart from ignoring the consultation, the khant has lied about:
4,000 polution deaths (1 in last 20 years)
Pollution figures
Pay per miles is being introduced
Etc.
More information on Facebook – Action against ULEZ expansion
Sadist Khan knew he had to move quick to use health reasons as a justification for this tax grab, as although Outer London has relatively clean air (falls within the acceptable limits laid down by UK & EU law), pollution levels are slightly higher than the WHO guidelines, however there has been a year on year improvement in air quality for decades and all projections expected (with the exception being for obvious reasons the area around Heathrow airport) for Outer London to be within WHO guidelines this year or early 2024 at the latest, and this is WITHOUT ULEZ expansion, this is why his own independent report found there would be a negligible improvement in air quality from ULEZ expansion, and certainly not sufficient improvement to justify the financial devastation and misery it will cause to so many hundreds of thousands of people driving perfectly legal low emission vehicles.
The money raised is the seed capital for the network of cameras needed for pay per mile.
Further to my last comment there are parliamentary petitions to support -Hold a referendum on removing the London Assembly and London Mayor, Give everyone within the M25 a vote for London Mayor and GLA member,Amend the 1999 GLA Act to remove the Mayor’s power to impose road use charges and also a crowd funding to take legal action please consider signing – https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/631763 , https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/634216 , https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/633550 and crowd funding for taking legal action – https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/stop-ulez-expansion/
Further to my last comment there are 3 parliamentary petitions to support -Hold a referendum on removing the London Assembly and London Mayor, Give everyone within the M25 a vote for London Mayor and GLA member, and Amend the 1999 GLA Act to remove the Mayor’s power to impose road use charges, there is also a crowd funding to take legal action just called STOP ULEZ EXPANSION, I tried before to put links in but the comment gets stopped for moderation, past experience no one ever looks at them or gets back to you so the comment never gets posted, so I’ve reproduced the comment without the links this time, just google, there are also a lot of anti ulez petitions on change.org etc you might stumble across.
Don’t forget Outer London has less of a problem with toxic air than it does with its toxic mayor.
They speak with forked-tongue and repeat false claims without shame as ULEZ reduces rather than improves air quality.
This is because the money spent on implementing ULEZ (over £250 million) to deal with negligible air pollution caused by vehicles which are required to pass strict MOT’s, would be better spent on dealing with actual pollution which is often site specific or improving the environment with less engineered congestion and more greenery.
Conspiraloons. Scary that people believe such guff.
You can still drive the majority of vehicles without paying the charge, only the most polluting are affected. My car is over ten years old but will not pay ulez.
Nobody has said anything about a ‘pay per mile’ scheme, its absolute fantasy, these are crazy people playing on your fears. Shame on THD for giving them the oxygen of publicity.
The (supposed) most polluting have still passed emissions MOT tests.
Saddick Khant has already stated on 11th April about PPM, using existing ULEZ cameras.
TFL have already recruited people to work on this, and it’s in their January 2022 “Next steps for reducing emissions from road transport” report/paper.
One of the boroughs with the worst air quality in London – fact. Am sick of you boomers with your gaslighting rhetoric to your GB news, sun/mail/express reading brexit audience. If your motor is chugging out excessive fumes in this day and age it needs to be penalised.
Of course the majority of cars are ulez compliant if they were not Sadiq Khan would have a much bigger fight on his hands to bring it in, but the people driving the older perfectly legal low emission vehicles that are not ULEZ compliant, and there are hundreds of thousands of them, are also likely to be those least able to afford the daily charge or to buy a newer compliant vehicle, especially as 2nd hand prices of compliant vehicles have gone through the roof since the Mayors announcement, and all this at a time or rampant inflation and run away energy prices. As for pay per mile, Sadiq Khan has spoken frequently about this as an ambition and has even consulted on it, he sees this as the natural replacement for ULEZ and congestion charges as those revenue streams diminish, although not here yet it is far from a fantasy.