Motorists in the UK may have to pay an additional £10 (RM56) for driving through/into London, following the new Toxicity Charge or T-charge imposed by its mayor, Sadiq Khan. Autocar reports that the fee is limited to high polluting cars, with Khan specifically targeting petrol and diesel vehicles manufactured before 2005 that don’t meet Euro 4 emissions standards for nitrogen oxide (NOx) and particulates.
The new levy is separate from the existing £11.50 (RM64) congestion charge, which means affected motorists may end up paying £21.50 (RM120) if they plan to drive in central London during the enforced hours. T-charge will be policed by the same network of cameras enforcing the congestion charging zone. Motorists will be able to check online to determine if their vehicles fall within the parameters of T-charge.
Harsh as the move may seem, Khan’s insistence to cut urban emissions has also seen him propose an extension of the Ultra Low Emissions Zone (ULEZ) to include the North and South Circular roads. Under current plans, which is set to be enforced in 2020, motorists entering the ULEZ will have to pay a fee that’s subject to the “cleanliness” of their vehicles. Khan however, wants it implemented a year earlier.
Khan was elected with the clear mandate to curb London’s worsening air quality, and said “the previous mayor was too slow on this issue, the government has been hopelessly inactive and it’s Londoners who are suffering as a result.” Khan claims that more than 10,000 people die annually in London due to polluted air, which has come under close scrutiny in recent years due to rising NOx emissions.
The situation is so dire that parts of the capital regularly breach EU limits for NOx – Putney High Street in West London breached the EU’s annual limit just one week(!) into 2016. Currently, London already has a Low Emission Zone, but it doesn’t apply to cars or motorcycles.
Earlier in July, Britain pledged to ban all sales of new petrol and diesel cars by 2040 in a bid to tackle emissions. This however, will not affect hybrids and plug-in hybrids, only cars with conventional powertrains. Oxford City Council has a more extreme measure – all petrol and diesel cars will be banned from its urban centre from 2020. The policy is currently being subjected to a public consultation.
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To curb KL’s worsening air quality, DBKL shud charge motorists and kapcai RM10 to enter city
I concur. Should be RM30 per day. So no silly people clog up the road.
And how might I ask, are you going to charge Kapcai? they are already going unregulated on highways where motorist have to pay tolls. if say charge them via the camera system as per London’s congestion charges, Malaysian, crafty as ever, will bypass it through infinite small lanes and even pedestrian or off-the-grid crossing.
Increase taxation of cars and reducing petrol subsidies are probably the only way, as much as it pains to admit as a Malaysian. The problem stands that unlike London or Singapore, KL just do not have the infrastructure to transfer to burden of our daily commute from private to public transportation just yet, and therefore moves such as adding more charges in KL only burden the common joe that just want to make ends meet
kapcai pollute less, the engine produce less heat compare to cars and it takes up 1/6 the space of a car.
no doubt.
Common misconception actually. its the same arguments with Diesel vs petrol, while its true that cars produces significantly bad CO^2 compared with bike, studies have shown that bike are significantly more pollutant per passenger than their 4 wheel counterpart pushing more HC, NOX and CO, stuff that are very directly more harmful to humans than CO^2. Studies done by US EPA and California Air Resources Board and more popularly in Mythbusters. The differences increases dramatically once you pile on more passenger ,lets say 5, on a car than the pollutant per head on a car is significantly less than a bike with 2 passengers.
Hanoi, popular for its tsunami of Kapcais and other two wheelers are amongst the most polluted in Asia, sometimes beating out leaders like Beijing for the title. Unlike Beijing their main source of pollution are not coal fired factories but Bikes that crowd the cities.
Along with diesel, bikes are preferred because it makes sense on the simple terms, it gets more mile per gallon and its easier on the Polar Bears, so for any simpleton its a no brainer. But peel it deeper bikes are inherently more pollutant especially older bikes that populate our roads. I am someone who regularly have respiratory problems, and standing next to a bike on idle is always harder on my lungs than standing next to a car.
Onto the subject of space, yes bike takes up less space than a car, and this come into expense of safety, both riders and pedestrian. You’re 14 times more likely to have a fatal accident on a bike than on a car. Its not fair to force people on something by design that is less safe than a car. Bikes goes faster and stops with a longer distance than comparable cars and for both riders and pedestrian, this won’t be good for Its true, our driving and riding habit sucks in Malaysia, go to any relatively developed cities and you can see bikes and cars have a much higher sense of discipline than locally, and changing mindset will be the hardest hurdle of all.
When was the last time you saw any form of pollution control devices on a kapchai?
Exactly.
Most don’t even have fuel injection for accurate fuel delivery
either your ignorant or plain stupid
if you even follow OUR motorcycle industry, all major manufacturing are moving on euro3 or euro4 emission standard which mean all motorcycle must be fuel injected, save for those china brand motorcycle.
heck, even the legendary ex5 now use fuel injection to pass the new emission standard
typical living in gua cave man
do bikes have catalytic converter , like all new cars ?
Meanwhile in Malaysia, people here are still rocking Euro 2M RON95 like there’s no tomorrow. Malaysians got lungs of steel anyway!
No need to talk about Euro 2M whatever. The moment they introduce higher standards, people bising about its cost.
Let them wallow in the smog.
Personally, skip the Euro 5 diesel and jump straight into implementing better EV support.
Goodluck Proton MPi with higher charge to enter London.
kalau buat macamm ni kat KL, nanti Malaysians cakap Malaysia nak bankrupt… kahkahkah!