Mark Harper said he would stop the rollout if he had the power to do so.
The expansion of the ultra-low emission zone to all London boroughs is not about air pollution but a “money-raising exercise”, the Transport Secretary has said.
Speaking on GB News on Tuesday morning, Mark Harper said he would stop the rollout if he had the power to do so and highlighted his reservations about the true motives behind the expansion. “It’s not about air pollution, it’s about a money-raising exercise and this is absolutely not the time to be putting all those costs on hard-pressed and hard-working Londoners and those in the area outside London.”
“And that’s important because if you look at the mayor of London’s own website for his Project 2030 scheme, he wants to roll out more road user charging schemes, pay-per-mile schemes across London.”
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