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LONDON:
Mayor Ken Livingstone plans to punish the drivers of large cars and trucks by tripling the daily congestion charge they must pay in the center of the city to
£25, in an attempt to improve air quality.
"One has to ask why people need four-wheel-drives in the most densely populated part of Britain," Livingstone said Tuesday at a news conference.
The new charges, the equivalent of about
$47.50, would be introduced around
2009 after a legal review, the mayor said. He also said he wanted to waive the fee for drivers of the least- polluting vehicles, including gasoline- electric and electric-power cars.
Livingstone says climate change is the biggest issue facing Londoners. He favors higher taxes on air travelers and has criticized drivers of "Chelsea tractors," as four-wheel-drive vehicles are known in London.
"Those who buy them can afford to choose from pretty much the whole of the mainstream car market but have chosen to buy one of the most polluting vehicles," Livingstone said.
The city introduced a charge on cars and trucks entering central London in 2003 to reduce traffic and pollution and raise cash for public transportation. The fee is currently £8 a day.
"It's got nothing to do with being green," said Paul Vine, a graphic designer who stopped driving his turbo- charged Toyota sports car to work in central London to avoid the charge. "It has to do with making money. Twenty- five pounds a day is ridiculous."
Vehicles that emit more than
225 grams of carbon dioxide per kilometer, the
highest category for U.K. vehicle tax purposes and known as band G, would pay the £25 a day charge.
The band G group ranges from Peugeot 407 station wagons with 3.0- liter gasoline engines to BMW 760Li and Jaguar XJ sedans with V-8 engines, according to the Department for Transport Web site.
"These are family vehicles and this is clearly a further taxation on the motorist from Ken Livingstone using the banner of the congestion charge," said John Procter, a spokesman for the British carmakers group, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.
Livingstone also plans to remove a 90 percent discount on the charge for drivers of the largest vehicles who live inside the zone.
The fee was increased to £8 from £5 in 2005, and in February the zone will be extended westward to include the borough of Kensington & Chelsea. The charge area currently takes in London's West End shopping and entertainment districts and the City financial area.
London retailers say the charge is reducing business in areas such as Oxford Street and sending shoppers who drive to malls outside the city.
The impact of the congestion zone is mixed. The number of cars entering the zone last year declined by 4 percent from a year earlier and the city raised £122 million, the mayor said in June. Traffic delays worsened in 2005 to an average of 1.8 minutes per kilometer from 1.6 minutes a year earlier, according to the city's transport department.
Bus ridership in London has grown 38 percent in the five years to 2005. Cycling increased 23 percent last year, with 330,000 journeys a day, the department said.
In October, local government officials in Richmond, southwest London said they wanted to link the cost of residents' parking permits to the volume of carbon dioxide their cars produce.
vir:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/11/14/news/london.php
tisto kar je odebeljen tisk je moj odgovor tebi, predvsem zadnji del - čisto spodi; za ostale pa je tisto zgoraj oz. cel tekst
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Pa sodelavki so avto obdrajsal. 
) zaparkira ostala vozila, parkirana pravokotno na njegovo vozilo in ker je to na samem izhodu iz parkirišča, oteži pretočnost iz\v parkirišče. Za avto se očitno ne zmeni do torka-srede (očitno avta sploh ne rabi), kar povzroči ogromno ogorčenja ostalih, domačinov in migrantov. Do srede mu manjkajo brisalci, ogledala, odtrgane tablice, popisan pleh, šipe... Vsak ki pride domov ob 17-ih zvečer znori in se znese nad tako parkiranim avtom, kar sem videl že ene 10-krat.
