London set to ban older private petrol/diesel cars

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Fri 28 Feb 2014 17:04
London set to ban older private petrol/diesel cars - Trilogy

www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/motoring/london-set-ban...s

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Fri 28 Feb 2014 17:30
London set to ban older private petrol/diesel cars - mss1tw

Good. I hate driving into London for work and dealing with traffic, parking, etc.

I hope this is the straw that breaks the camel's back and my fellow tradesmen tell the place to shove their work.

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Fri 28 Feb 2014 18:09
London set to ban older private petrol/diesel cars - oldroverboy.

Good. I hate driving into London for work and dealing with traffic, parking, etc.

How many vehicles does anyone think this will effect, virtually everything inside the M25.

Already have friends from watford, (carpenter and roofer father and son who no longer go into the low emission zone, and turn down thw work. Naturally parking problems don't help. The "poor old londoner" will have nice expensive houses and outrageously expensive tradesmen to fix them, but isn't that what boris wants, only rich people...

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Fri 28 Feb 2014 18:19
London set to ban older private petrol/diesel cars - Collos25

My stepmother sold her properties in central London for that very reason I avoid the place like the plague the rich are welcome to its the most overpriced dump in the UK .

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Fri 28 Feb 2014 18:30
London set to ban older private petrol/diesel cars - groaver

The lunatics really have taken over the asyllum.

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Fri 28 Feb 2014 18:53
London set to ban older private petrol/diesel cars - focussed

I don't give a s*** - I woudn't travel to any place anywhere near the Central Cesspit if you paid me a gold pig-so shove that where the sun seldom shines Boris.

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Fri 28 Feb 2014 19:25
London set to ban older private petrol/diesel cars - Snakey

m****ic, but then the whole congestion charge was m****ic. Suits me if I never visit the place again!

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Fri 28 Feb 2014 20:27
London set to ban older private petrol/diesel cars - gordonbennet

Excellent, another good reason never to have go near the dump.

A 50ft Hadrians wall just inside the M25 would be perfect.

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Sat 1 Mar 2014 02:29
London set to ban older private petrol/diesel cars - jamie745

Excellent news. London can do the rest of the country a favour by banning all sorts of people from doing business there so they'll filter into the rest of the country instead. Bravo London. Well done.

Seriously, London is such a cesspit anyway I frankly couldn't care less. Inside the M25 is practically a different country now to the rest of Britain and it can go to hell.

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Sat 1 Mar 2014 11:02
London set to ban older private petrol/diesel cars - Bromptonaut

While I can just about see this in the Congestion Charge zone is it really likely to cover residential suburbs?

In spite of all the mention of particulates the issue seems to be NOX.

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Sat 1 Mar 2014 19:40
London set to ban older private petrol/diesel cars - Happy Blue!

This will be fun!

No longer able to visit the mother-in-law with the family; no longer able to get to Wembley ( I am hoping MCFC view it as their second home in the next few years - but its damn inconvenient to get to) and no longer able to visit friends and other family.

How to win friends and influence people. Well I'm influenced and I will treat the palce as if it has influenza.

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Sat 1 Mar 2014 20:06
London set to ban older private petrol/diesel cars - Collos25

Forget the MIL thats a bonus but why would you not be able to get to Wembley.

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Sat 1 Mar 2014 23:01
London set to ban older private petrol/diesel cars - Bromptonaut

Forget the MIL thats a bonus but why would you not be able to get to Wembley.

Irrespective of ULEZ etc I'd leave car no further south than Watford Junction (and possibly at Northampton or MK) if going Manchester to Wembley.

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Sat 1 Mar 2014 23:46
London set to ban older private petrol/diesel cars - Avant

Or at Hillingdon tube station if coming down the M40. Direct line (Metropolitan) to Wembley Park.

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Sun 2 Mar 2014 07:23
London set to ban older private petrol/diesel cars - oldroverboy.

So I can,t believe this! Nobody loves london? I must say our 2 month stay has put us off, and it was meant to be a year.

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Sun 2 Mar 2014 07:43
London set to ban older private petrol/diesel cars - gordonbennet

So I can,t believe this! Nobody loves london? I must say our 2 month stay has put us off, and it was meant to be a year.

I used to enjoy London driving up until about 20 years ago, apart from certain obvious areas. The place is unrecognisable now.

Had to go to Park Royal yesterday for work, the North Circular experience of typical London ill mannered aggessive loutish ignorance was at normal standards.

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Sun 2 Mar 2014 15:15
London set to ban older private petrol/diesel cars - oldroverboy.

Please Gordon, advice

Hereford, chesterfield, wrexhan, taunton, your thoughts on traffic?

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Sun 2 Mar 2014 17:19
London set to ban older private petrol/diesel cars - Happy Blue!

Managed to park at Stanmore and got the tube to Wembley Park. Traffic a nightmare now to get out of Stanmore now.

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Sun 2 Mar 2014 17:20
London set to ban older private petrol/diesel cars - Happy Blue!

Managed to park at Stanmore and got the tube to Wembley Park. Traffic a nightmare now to get out of Stanmore now.

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Sun 2 Mar 2014 17:38
London set to ban older private petrol/diesel cars - gordonbennet

Please Gordon, advice

Hereford, chesterfield, wrexhan, taunton, your thoughts on traffic?

Unusual grouping ORB, are these places you are considering moving to?

Can't help you with Taunton, haven't been for years, the others suffer from the typical peak times queues, Chesterfield and Wrexham have good access to trunk roads nearby, where Hereford is two way A roads in all directions.

Could you expand on what your want to know please.

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Sun 2 Mar 2014 22:03
London set to ban older private petrol/diesel cars - daveyK_UK

If your team lose, you can normally get away from wembley handy if you dont stay around to see the opposition lift the cup.

I have parked in the industrial estate surrounding the stadium and got away without no delays (but my team tend to lose).

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Sun 2 Mar 2014 23:56
London set to ban older private petrol/diesel cars - Happy Blue!

I'm hoping my team have begun a long period of domination, especially over our quiet neighbours in Trafford (I.e. not even in Manchester).

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