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The Freight Transport
Association is disappointed that, in announcing plans for a Low Emission
Zone (LEZ) in London by controls on lorries, Mayor Livingstone has
ignored the warning regarding businesses at risk and the large number of
vehicles, including Euro 1 and foreign operators, which will slip
through a ragged enforcement net by fair means or foul. The Low
Emission Zone (LEZ) is a scheme proposed by the Mayor to reduce lorry
emissions in the entire area within the M25.
Prior to the last
Mayoral election, Mr Livingstone promised to look at opportunities to
benefit freight, but today's announcement merely reinforces the view
that freight operators' essential contribution to the London economy is
neither valued nor understood.
Gordon Telling, FTA's
Head of Policy for London and the South-East, said, 'Having successfully
lobbied for the deferral of the Euro 4 standard until 2012, FTA will now
continue to work to minimise the damage that these proposals will cause
to industry, and particularly small businesses. FTA will be pressing
for measures to support the vast majority of vehicle operators who are
pro-actively investing well beyond minimum legal standards. In
particular we will seek acknowledgement of the progress made through
cleaner vehicles and fuels.
'The Mayor cannot fail
with this scheme because industry is already doing what he is now
mandating. Success, when it comes, will have been unnecessarily costly
and will have been delivered by an already overburdened freight
industry, not by the flawed scheme unveiled by the Mayor today.'
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