Last week marked Scotland’s Climate Week, in which we are asked to focus on tackling climate change and our country’s role in tackling its…
Last week marked Scotland’s Climate Week, in which we are asked to focus on tackling climate change and our country’s role in tackling its impact on our lives.. With that in mind, I thought this was an ideal opportunity to focus on Glasgow City Council’s Low Emission Zone, four months on from it being implemented and assess current opinion on it.
Since the introduction of the LEZ, many believe that all GCC has done is move any perceived problems with air pollution into residential areas on the outskirts of the city as people commute to out-of-town shopping centres, restaurants and leisure facilities to avoid paying any LEZ-related charges in the city centre.
That offers a clue that the real measure of this policy’s success by those in the City Chambers is how much it improves their finances, despite ordinary Glaswegians being punished during a cost-of-living crisis. So, since LEZ introduction there has already been in the region of 40 taxi licences handed back to Glasgow City – this figure is set only to rise as the exemption deadline, granted grudgingly, to drivers, looms large in June 2024.
But say supporters, the LEZ is a significant contributor to better air quality and therefore worth the upheaval. No pain no gain., show a general significant drop in levels in and around Glasgow, except the Glasgow reading, which falls within the LEZ and remains almost the same. Are we therefore punishing our already embattled city centre for nothing?
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