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Sadiq Khan called 'scaremonger' for claiming scrapping ULEZ would cost £283 million

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Vincent
Published date16 April 2024
Publication titleMyLondon (England)
The Tory candidate for mayor, Susan Hall, has pledged to reverse this. Mr Cox has criticised her for only committing to getting rid of the 'doughnut' and not the whole thing

Mr Khan's team said on Friday when announcing the mayor's '10 point plan' for net zero in the city by 2030: "Scrapping ULEZ would not only waste an estimated £283.2 million, but lead to air pollution increasing in London due to more non-compliant cars driving in from outside London."

MyLondon asked the mayor how much he thought it would cost to get rid of just the ULEZ expansion. He replied: "I've not looked into it."

Mr Cox told MyLondon: "Yet more emotive ill-informed scaremongering from this dishonest mayor. He continues to fleece poorer families and sole traders to wreck London’s economy further under the guise of environmental lies.

"Instead he should be incentivising the adoption of clean fossil fuel technology. His inept financial management of our capital city means he has to rely on cash grabbing policies. Only Reform UK will scrap all ULEZ across the whole of London."

Tory candidate promises £50m to tackle pollution 'hotspots'

Ms Hall told MyLondon in October: ""Outer Londoners can’t afford it [the ULEZ]. Some of the stories I’m hearing are heartbreaking -genuinely heartbreaking." She then called the mayor 'delusional'.

Instead, Ms Hall says she would provide a pot of £50 million to local authorities across the capital for officials to initiate smaller scale action, such as tackling emissions 'hotspots' in Outer London. A hypothetical example she described was having a traffic 'logjam' because of built up pavements.

The road would then be changed using the cash. Or, alternatively, a bus route may need electrification. Mr Khan's team also said on Friday: "Sadiq has been the greenest mayor ever, making London a world-leader in tackling pollution and the climate crisis.

"Under his tenure as Mayor, London has won National Park City status, created the world’s largest clean air zone, planted more than half a million...

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