Thousands of children switched to walking or cycling to school following the introduction of controversial Ultra-Low Emission Zones (ULEZ) in London, reveals new research.
Four in 10 youngsters in central London who previously went to school by car switched to more active modes of travel following the introduction of ULEZ, according to the findings.
In Luton, Bedfordshire, where there were no ULEZ, just two in 10 children made the switch during the same period.Well, I'm sure that's an added benefit, but it wasn't the goal of the ULEZ, was it? The goal was to give us cleaner air. And it's failed.
So just as climate change nutters are trying to move the goalposts, as Tim Worstall pointed out last week, so too, it seems are ULEZ fans desperate to find another benefit of their wretched scheme.
Perhaps it should read thousands of children who were living near the poverty line were forced to walk to school as their parents could not afford to take them to school due to the additional taxes imposed by the ULEZ scheme.
ReplyDeleteAlthough the scheme failed in all of its objectives they have latched on to this as a win and it will be added to the objectives of all other such schemes up and down the country.
"Perhaps it should read thousands of children who were living near the poverty line were forced to walk to school as their parents could not afford to take them to school due to the additional taxes imposed by the ULEZ scheme."
ReplyDeleteA far more accurate summation.