At a recent meeting with the Mayor, Mike Tuffrey asked a question about the proposed financial incentive scheme to encourage London Taxi Drivers to purchase greener vehicles!
But with no sign of a green or greener Taxi on the horizon, Boris makes it clear there will be no financial help for drivers as of yet, to upgrade to new vehicles as the age limit restriction approaches.
Question byMike Tuffrey
The “Update to the Air Quality Plan for the Daily Mean PM10 Limit Value for Greater London Agglomeration Zone, UK: June 2011” document on the Defra website, states that “the Mayor has announced a financial incentives scheme to encourage drivers to purchase the cleanest taxis”. Can you provide details of this scheme, including when it will start, what the scale of the financial incentives will be, and its objectives?
Answer by Boris Johnson
I am committed to improving London’s air quality and recognise the important role that taxis must play in this area. The objective of any financial scheme is to encourage cabbies to purchase cleaner, practical and affordable taxis for use in London. TfL is working to finalise the exact details surrounding the scheme at this time and will announce them later in the year.
TfL and my team continue to work very closely with taxi manufacturers to understand their plans for introducing low-emission taxis. Taxi manufacturers are still looking at design and production time lines but, given the complexity involved, manufactures are unable to state when such vehicles will be available for sale to drivers.
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LTC and Chinese manufactures who supply most of London's Taxis have repeatedly said they have no plans to replace the TX4 engine with a cleaner green one. More waffle from Boris I'm afraid!
More Bullshit from Bozza!
ReplyDeleteNo wonder Hendy and his underlings sing the a same tunes. As Mason di on his 'performances' at the LCDC AGM (and this years non AGM) asked the members 'What do you want? I will deliver it'. He then spends the next 12 months making excuses why he can't.
Oh, sorry there is the stickers!
Only reason we are seeung stickers is they have really made a hash of the cloned bills
ReplyDeleteWho knows how many there are out there?
TPH are a sham
this is so important that we are perceived as "green" anyone would think they are deliberately keeping us in diesel vehicles so a pincer movement by rickshaws on one side and priuses on the other wipes us out
ReplyDeleteThe thing that really gets me about all this Green crap,Is we have a Mayor who is quite happy to paint these new blue super highways for cyclists.Now in theory these would help air pollution,But in practice they actually make it worse,Because by taking up valuable road space he is in fact causing cars,lorries,taxis etc to back up sitting in traffic engines idling belting out fumes.
ReplyDeleteBoris isn't in control, central conservative office is, and Johnson takes his orders directly from David Cameron.
ReplyDeleteSo what we have in the cab trade is Ken Livingstone's agenda being delivered by a couple of Bullingdon boys........ How embarrassing............. Cameron a Livingstone cronie, how utterly embarrassing for David Cameron for this Livingstone agenda to be ongoing under a conservative mayor.