In the Westminster area of central London authorities decided that parking will be more expensive by 50% for diesel cars, the movement having chances to be adopted in many places in the UK Telegraph. Mayor of London said last month that 10,000 people die each year because of pollution in the capital, and diesel also has a major fault. Many of diesel car owners are upset by the new measures, after more than a decade have been encouraged to buy diesel cars, telling them the ones that are more environmentally friendly than gasoline.
Westminster City Council decision applies from April and will be overcharged diesel cars, so parking in the area will cost £ 2.45 / hour more than the standard fare of £ 4.90. It is hoped that owners of diesel cars will be discouraged and bring them to the area estimate is that many muncipalitati from across the UK will adopt similar measures that will increase revenues to the budget.
Representatives of associations auto industry say the measure will alienate a large number of owners of diesel engines they bought in good faith after being told that pollute less and after and the authorities have strongly supported cars on diesel, imposing lower taxes for them.
An opinion is more often heard but that all diesel should not be penalized sites, but trucks, buses and taxis old, very new sites because diesel emissions are extremely low. Estimates show that half of the pollution caused by diesel engines could come from just one tenth of ancient vehicles practically.
Inflows another area of London, Hackney, the local council on several streets prohibit parking all cars, except electrical, planning to allocate a million pounds to install charging stations in the streets.
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said last Monday that nearly 10,000 people die each year in the capital due to air pollution and announces investments of 875 million pounds to improve air quality, double what was spent predecessor, Boris Johnson. Khan wants to introduce a "toxic tax" that would apply to the most polluting vehicles, both diesel and gasoline tax that will apply in addition to the famous "congestion charge".
