You'll Now Be Charged Extra To Drive An Old Car Into London
You’ll now be charged even more if you want to drive an old car into London. Pass the roadside signs in a car whose emission standards are Euro III or earlier and you’ll have to pay a total of £21.50 for every day you do so. This is the new London T-Charge.
The extra tenner on top of the existing £11.50 Congestion Charge will go straight to London’s coffers, but it’s not yet clear what the money will be spent on. Rough estimates put the number of drivers affected by the extra tax as 6500 per day. That’s theoretically an extra couple of million rolling in annually.
Aimed at cutting nitrogen oxide levels by half after two years, which it will probably do as effectively as the Congestion Charge cut traffic (i.e. not so you’d notice), the T-Charge affects the exact same area as the Congestion Charge – for now.
Environmental campaigners and people who like to write angry things on the Internet are calling for the T-Charge zone to be expanded in 2019 to cover all of Greater London from the North Circular to the South Circular roads. That, as anyone who knows the city will tell you, covers the vast majority of places that you might actually want to get to.
While cars will be lumbered with the £10 charge, coaches, buses and HGVs will have to stump up £100 per day. Expect those Megabus and National Express prices to look steep next time you book.
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This is just getting too crazy. Petrol for f*cking life.
Team LUNGS disagrees heartily
Waiting for Tomislav Celić #CTthegame to arrive…
I’m here
What if it’s EV swapped?
only IF
“Sir, that’s going to be £21.50….oh wait!“
“Just £21.50 for unlimited torque? Give me a break!“
Smashes accelerator, electric Jaguar E-Type Zero drives away
Good luck getting money to do that
So they don’t want people to drive a DB5, possibly Great Britain’s most famous car? Seems legit.
They are registered as classics, therefore, avoid old car laws
I would rather have more speeding cameras than this. We all know that the goverment just wants more money. If you have an old car you pay taxes. If you buy a new car you pay about half of its price in tax. Its getting insane and most of this money is not going to coaches or trains or clean electricity.
Honestly. They don’t care about more money, they care about looking cool in front of other country’s.
So you’re telling me a 20 year old Ford Focus cannot enter the centre, but a brand new Aventador S can? Well done UK
Agreed. Such bs they have done!
So you dont want dirty older vehicles on the road…so what do you do? Tax the very people who can’t afford a newer car. Take a bow Government 👏🏼
It’s terrible! Shame on them!
Trouble is that the UK Government is so out of touch with the real world that they don’t know that there are people who can’t afford newer cars.
Someone should organize an event where people drive in to London with old muscle cars, pay the tax and the just rev the ** out of them.
I 100% Support this initiative, please make this happen.
Also add a couple of Diesel pickups to roll coal as well.
This should be comment of the week. I’M IN!!!!
Should be done. I’d come with my car from Romania to London just to do that.
The person in charge who organized the event would get in trouble tho…
I just saw this now, 3 days late…but I’m in!
Finally, a tax on being poor! :-/
Thank god I don’t live in London. I’ve never had a car yet that’s newer than 2005.
That sucks… rather that such a tax they should have financial incentives to buy newer cleaner cars
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Same, and I refuse to buy one newer.
I hate all the electronic aids that make an otherwise nice drive unpleasant…
That’s nothing new (especially in finland)
I can’t believe they did this! Instead, they should have focused on getting the public transportation to go electric and make the routes even more convenient! Instead, they decide to do such useless bullsh1t! Even if Euro III cars have to pay to enter, they still pollute elsewhere. The new cars still pollute a lot as well! What a waste of time and energy that this time, actually doesn’t help the environment! So, this is for London; 🖕🏻