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"Already places like Pellatt road are reporting increases in pressure, and this will only get worse as the Dog Kennel Hill zone displaces into your area." So CPZs force residents to demand a CPZ, right? Bonkers. Also, any CPZ near LL will have to have a shared or separate business permit allowance, which will reduce spaces for residents significantly.

I loved in a CPZ, in SW London and still had to park two streets away every other day (and it's not our right to park outside our own houses anyway, FFS). And those visitors permits only have a shelf life of three years, IIRC, so you end up binning them. And comparing Herne Hill and Camberwell to ED proves my point. It will solve nothing and I will resist this all the way.

The OP must work for APCOA or something as CPZs usually result in fewer spcaces, misery for visitors and tradesmen, unexpected fines when passes expire or fall off the window in summer, and all for the cost of several hundred quid. Also, this will be the death knell for Lordship Lane?s independent shop success.

Usually when they're standing idle, they're waiting for concrete to set. Sometimes they put up signs to that effect.

CityMapper is great

We'd cope with winter tyres fitted. Just been to the alps, where normal family cars are trundling around on packed snow without any issues. Plus, they know how to drive on ice - low revs, using engine braking to slow.

Rendel's right. The last time it snowed like this was nearly ten years ago.

Bus broken down on LL not helping, plus lots of unnecessary journeys no doubt.

Try the excellent CityMapper app. It'll give you real time updates.

Try Naked Larder in Herne Hill

Check whether your vehicle will be compliant here: https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/driving/ultra-low-emission-zone/check-your-vehicle

Check whether your vehicle will be compliant here: https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/driving/ultra-low-emission-zone/check-your-vehicle

Maybe this thread's title should change to reflect the new subject

The top line is, with some exceptions, if your diesel car is roughly older than a 15-plate, you will have to pay ?12.50 a day to drive around within a boundary set by the south and north circulars. A quick tally of the diesel cars in my street, suggests that that 90% of them will become worthless in a couple of years' time. Check your reg on the uLEZ advice page.

Memsab answered when I called a take-away in. Very good replacement.

Reg? I'll keep an eye out for it. They've tried to have mine away four or five times now.

It's clay slip, as the wet ground settles.

goldilocks Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Just going back on this too - all black cabs will > have to be younger than 15 years old. But all > residential cars in the ULEZ will have to be less > than 6 years old - feels incongruous. Haven't > looked in detail but isn't clear to me what > standards minicabs will have to meet? Will they be > held to the same standards as residential cars? I > do support initiatives to make London's air > cleaner and its incumbent on all of us to act now, > but these plans seem too patchy. The black cab lobby is very powerful, that's why they're still driving around in cabs that are up to 20 years old, ancient EURO2 emissions, without diesel particulate filters (DPFs) and up to half a million miles on their knackered engines. I saw a Hackney Carriage-licensed 1997 R-reg cab in town the other day, belching out clouds of visible soot and regularly follow 02/52/03/53-reg vehicles that ought to be banned immediately. If I recall, Uber vehicles must be less than four years old; don't know about minicabs, but plenty of them are high-milers with the DPF chopped out of the exhaust system.

It was/is enchanting. Those austere modern lights remind me of the lighting on the council recs I grew up with in the 70s, and could make the place look more foreboding at night. There are plenty of modern old-style lights to choose from too: http://www.dwwindsor.com/products/category/lighting/traditional-lighting/

EE is hit and miss. In some parts of town it drops out completely, yet out in the middle of nowhere, 4 bars.

That's a field drainage pipe. The concrete inspection chamber could be a soak-away or junction. http://www.plasticdrainage.co.uk/110-3m-single-socket-perforated-pipe.html?gclid=Cj0KCQiAkZHTBRCBARIsAMbXLhEdr3te69WL2lWjnw93-0Pt3DZkkdANYJYZZ08RaeYBJ7Yp23sL8vkaAhAVEALw_wcB#fo_c=1765&fo_k=7bdf194d41a6712c6d110d47d8d39d9d&fo_s=gplauk

Removing all those unnecessary traffic lights that sprung up under Ken Livingstone's tenure would also reduce emissions across the city.

Penguin68 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > At the moment the ultra-low emission zone is > already 'policed' by congestion charge cameras - > hence there is virtually no additional > infrastructure cost in implementing it (some more > coding for the camera software, and running it > 24-7 and not just during congestion charge times). > To extend it as wide as is planned will require > many, many more cameras to spy on every route that > crosses into the new zone, together I assume with > data runs to identify qualifying vehicles which > are registered within the zone (although of course > they could well, on the peripheries, be kept > outside the zone). All told the costs of > implementing and running such a scheme will be > huge. This is much more complex than road tolling > (where you choose carefully the limited routes you > will be charging on). Just think of the number of > suburban roads that lead into, particularly, the > South Circular (which, unlike the North Circular, > which is real, is just a mapping convention). All > will need to be covered by cameras and cabling to > those cameras. Indeed. The vast cost of implementing it, with the backdrop of Brexit and Carillion, would mean that the whole project would have to rely on residents NOT renewing their 'polluting' cars and instead paying the fees and fines to fund it and then on, to pay for its upkeep.

The PCP bubble bursting and Brexit will put paid to this.

I bet we'll still see 10-year-old EURO4 cabs driving around. I followed a 2002 taxi the other day through Peckham. Couldn't breathe for soot particles. And there's 21,000 of them.