Glasgow Low Emission Zone Bans Older Cars From City Centre – and Penalties Are HUGE
Enforcement of Scotland’s first Low Emission Zone (LEZ) begins tomorrow and will see drivers of older vehicles entering the forbidden zone with huge fines that double with each subsequent breach. The Mail has more.
The scheme is far stricter than London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) and Birmingham’s Clean Air Zone (CAZ), both of which have daily charges for drivers who enter in non-compliant vehicles.
Instead, the first Scottish LEZ introduced in Glasgow from Thursday is a blanket ban on older cars that’s operational 24 hours a day, 365 days a year – and with harsh punishments for those who fail to adhere to the restrictions.
A driver entering the LEZ in a non-compliant older car will be hit with a £60 penalty charge notice – and if they break the rules again, the PCN amount doubles each time.
Despite enforcement due to start in less than 24 hours, the city council is facing a late bid to have it delayed…
Glasgow is the first of Scotland’s four biggest cities to enforce the LEZ scheme.
While signage and automatic numberplate recognition (ANPR) cameras have also been installed in preparation for similar zones in Aberdeen, Dundee and Edinburgh since last May, Glasgow City Council is the first to set them live from June 1st 2023.
Dundee’s won’t be enforced for another year from May 30th 2024, and in Aberdeen and Edinburgh from June 1st 2024.
The extended delay between installation and enforcement of the zones is intended to give drivers and businesses time to prepare and replace their older – non-compliant – motors.
However, time is due to run out for those living and commuting into Glasgow from tomorrow.
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In a northern city with one of the cleanest air content ppm than any other! There could never be another motive or agenda could there? I’ll have to check it out with the bbcs verify to make sure it’s a filthy, dirty city full of smog and airborne death! I’m sure they’ll verify that it is.
That’s what happens when national socialists run a country!
Sturgeon’s lickspittle, Abu Humza is an islamo-fascist.
But the saving grace is in the details – For petrol cars, if the earliest registration year is 2006, how many people are driving cars 17 years old or more nowadays anyway? Does sound pretty unfair on diesel drivers, however, when the zone can’t tolerate diesel vehicles older than 8. But it’s not too harsh a scheme as it currently stands. It’s just the motivation behind it and the suspicion that it may be a first step in the direction of much more grandiose and sinister machinations that smells worse than diesel fumes to me!
It’s 100% guaranteed only a first step. For a simple reason. It serves no actual purpose other than to satisfy the will to power of bureaucrats and petty politicians. And that is insatiable. They will find excuses to press for more because they’re need to exercise their power is boundless.
Scotchland is like a rotting corpse and led by a filthy islamist – let it die quietly.
My 20 year old Honda Accord is still going strong. In my view it’s arguably greener to not replace your car every few years.
My guess is they’re doing the minimum to test the system and prevent a massive splash of millions of fines on day 1, then once people get used to it they will slowly ratchet up the minimum level as in London.
How long do EVs last anyway?
Not terribly long by the looks of their track record so far, until every journey becomes a game of Russian Roulette where the battery might just burst into flames!
Not as long as a Honda, my 14 yo Accord 8th gen is on 256,000 miles.
And in a couple of years the screw will be tightened some more, and two years after that. By 2030- that date again – only the “elites” will be able to drive in Glasgow.
The power grab is blatant now.
Chucking half bricks at the only people allowed on the roads! Now that’s a hobby for the 15 minute city McScum classes.
Truth is of course that the elites won’t be anywhere near Glasgow Central, which will be patrolled by robot dogs and drones.
See you, Jimmy.
my 21 year old car is doing well. i think there might actually be a lot of people driving old cars especially older people!
My 12 year old diesel is doing extremely well but will never see the middle of Glasgow again. It’s not alone…
I’m currently driving an ‘M’ (1994) Ford Escort Cabrio around. Oh well, that’s Glasgow removed from my bucket list, how will I cope! I guess i’ll have to rush now to sample the delights of Aberdeen and Dundee, if I can find any that is…
“how many people are driving cars 17 years old or more nowadays anyway? “
come to ireland, Most people stick with their cars for decades! My duster is ten this year and its got a long road ahead before I call it quits. Its common to see plates from late 80s to 2010s still in everyday use!
My mum always said “waste not want not”
Stop making new and make do and mend !
Far more environmental friendly than use it up wear it out!
Ah yes, Ireland, where the government recently made it illegal to possess ‘hate’ material on your phone, hate being defined as whatever the state says it is.
Im sure a government capable of doing that has no intention whatsoever of following the Western European fashion of driving people out of private car ownership.
My 2006 Subaru Forester only has 55,000 km on it, so it’s going to be on the road for many many years to come.
“it may be a first step in the direction of much more grandiose and sinister machinations that smells worse than diesel fumes to me!”
Yep. Start with that and delete everything else before it. Then if you think this is remotely about the environment maybe take a trip to New Delhi and see what actual pollution looks like and how little you can do about it before you start on a path to incremental genocide.
“it may be a first step in the direction of much more grandiose and sinister machinations that smells worse than diesel fumes to me!”
Yep. Start with that and delete everything else before it. Then if you think this is remotely about the environment maybe take a trip to New Delhi and see what actual pollution looks like and how little you can do about it before you start on a path to incremental genocide.
Highway Robbery.
Except they don’t ride around on Black Bess.
Because the only thing preventing Glasgow being a mecca of earthly paradise is it’s smog from older petrol and diesel engines?
Yer right! I’ve worked there over many years, and air quality should not be its biggest concern, its a sithole!
Just when you think the WHO cannot become any more disgustingly corrupt we find out they elected North Korea to join the executive board. So that should provide instant reassurance that they have our best interests at heart going forward then, FFS!
https://twitter.com/HillelNeuer/status/1663895295036366849
https://www.foxnews.com/world/north-korea-elected-who-executive-board
Firkin hell Mogs.
The ”next pandemic”, much touted by the virus zealots ( well, they all seem supremely confident there will be one ), they won’t shut up about it. So could it be ”SPARS”? It says here that it’s a ”hypothetical scenario”, but will it end up being an Event 201 equivalent? ”The following narrative comprises a futuristic scenario that illustrates communication dilemmas concerning medical countermeasures (MCMs) that could plausibly emerge in the not-so-distant future. Its purpose is to prompt users, both individually and in discussion with others, to imagine the dynamic and oftentimes conflicted circumstances in which communication around emergency MCM development, distribution, and uptake takes place. While engaged with a rigorous simulated health emergency, scenario readers have the opportunity to mentally “rehearse” responses while also weighing the implications of their actions. At the same time, readers have a chance to consider what potential measures implemented in today’s environment might avert comparable communication dilemmas or classes of dilemmas in the future. This prospective scenario is not intended to predict events to come; rather, it is meant to serve as a plausible narrative that illustrates a broad range of serious and frequently encountered challenges in the realm of risk and crisis communication.”… Read more »
Well Billy does like an Opening Night Premiere.
Not only have older diesel vehicles been banned but the surrounding areas just outside the ULEZ now only have expensive metered parking. Residents have had to buy permits to park with no guarantee of a parking space.
Public transport is encouraged but is actually very poor and there are no park and ride facilities. The city centre night life will be decimated as many taxi drivers are giving up as they can’t afford to buy new taxis and all the paperwork that goes with the licence plate.
It’s certainly about more than the air pollution. It will kill the city.
I sincerely hope the challenge is successful.
Your Government and Council leaders are saying —“Hey poor people who can’t afford the latest models because you have children to feed and rent pay and electricity and gas bills that you cannot afford because of absurd climate policies you are NOT WELCOME in the Cities”———–You need to go sit at home burning as you cannot afford.
The Bristol Mayor is claiming this is all down to the Government and the Council makes no money from the scheme. How come they are all different if it is the Givernment behind it? I think someone is not being honest here. A total ban is SNP ridiculousness! Are they giving out free cars?
I’m sure Glasgow’s stats as having as one of the lowest life expectancies in Western Europe will start to climb almost immediately, and that their mortality has everything to do with non euro4 cars, and nothing to do with smoking, pints of heavy, or deep fried mars bars.
The other matter is where the boundary is in relation to the road layout. In Glasgow, it evidently does not apply to the M8, e.g. If it did, it would generate a lot of revenue!
If the Scots will insist on giving away freebies such as university education for their own population then those who voted them in must expect more and more of these indirect taxes. 🤣🤣