New mayor Sadiq has announced that he will launch a formal policy
consultation in a matter of weeks on a major package of measures to tackle
air pollution in London. The proposals will include:

•Extending the Ultra-Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) to the North Circular Road
and the South Circular Road and the possibility of bringing forward the
introduction earlier than 2020. Under current plans the ULEZ will only
operate within the Congestion Charging Zone and it is due to come in from
2020.

• Implementing an extra charge on the most polluting vehicles entering
central London using the Congestion Charge payment and enforcement system
from 2017 (this would not mean an increase in the Congestion Charge but
just the method for collecting the extra charge from people driving the
most polluting vehicles)

•Introducing ULEZ standards for heavy vehicles London-wide from 2020

•Giving the go-ahead for Transport for London (TfL) to start work on the
costs and challenges of implementing a diesel scrappage scheme as part of a
wider national scheme delivered by the Government

• Proposals to work with the Government to tackle air pollution on a
national and international level.


Proposals for TfL to lead by example:

•Introducing self-imposed ULEZ standards a year earlier for TfL double
decker buses

•Implementing clean bus corridors – tackling the worst pollution hotspots
by concentrating cleaner buses on the dirtiest routes

•Expanding the ULEZ retrofit programme to 3,000 buses outside the central
zone (up from 2,000)

•Purchasing only hybrid or zero-emission double-decker buses from 2018.

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