Posted on 11/05/2019 4:53:38 PM PST by fruser1
All privately owned diesel vehicles will be barred from entering the proposed city centre clean air zone for eight hours a day.
Mayor Marvin Rees saying they had a "moral, ecological and legal duty" to cut pollution
Drivers breaking the ban will be fined.
Diesel-powered commercial vehicles like buses, taxis and heavy goods vehicles will also face restrictions but efforts will be made to minimise disruption.
"at least 300 people a year are dying because of air pollution".
The decision was not universally popular, with councillors expressing concerns over whether it would become harder to get to hospital.
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Glad somebody besides me knows that diesel is cleaner than gasoline exhaust. My late husband worked as service manager for Cummins for years. He told me.
That may be so in the U.S. if the regulatory standards on automobile fuel differ from those in the UK. In the UK leaded gasoline was banned decades ago, and catalytic converters are mandatory. (For aught I know, that may be so in the US also, I'm just guessing). The annual 'MOT test' of all UK cars over 3 years old measures emissions, which have to be below a certain level to pass - the car is no longer legal if it doesn't.
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