IMO saw this in Brizzle over Council's plan to ban private diesel cars from around the city centre. Lead to outcry from diesel car owners, and this plan has quietly been dropped. Face saving claim by the council that emissions have dropped because of Covid, and Covid has damaged the economy to the extent that they don't want to inflict any futher economic pain through a ULEZ.
That is absolutely my pet hate. Diesel cars and their selfish, unthinking drivers who park one up in the street, or opposite the supermarket cash point, and just leave it on stand with the engine chugging away, choking all the pedestrians to death; or to a severe coughing bout anyway; without an environmental thought in their empty heads.
I have a petrol car, but FFS I even start and then switch the engine off immediately just to get out and close my garage door behind me. Saves my lungs as well every day.
Bristol council imo should have just told the dissenters to fuck off.
Same with mayor Khan in London. He is absolutely anti-diesel but has done fuck all to prohibit taxi drivers from making station approaches some of the foulest air in the Capital.
Amsterdam is a city that's going diesel free very soon, if not already. No ifs, no buts, no trying to appease people whose nose might be put out of joint.
But then again it's the continent. The Europeans just seem to be so much better than us at devising a plan, getting on and implementing it, with little or no fuss.
Passing a law that would discourage, or even heavily fine, motorists from leaving their polluting engines running whilst their car was on stand would probably save thousands of tonnes of emissions over the course of a year.
It would be something the government could be 'seen to be doing'. But as usual our fucktards won't consider anything like that. They are too busy trying to organise a piss up in a pub, post Covid-era.
