Switzerland - you can only go in by bus and then not all the way in as they're not allowed to due to stricter emission regs than we've got. BTW, FWIW (acronymn heaven), town centres are mainly dying due to the interweb and you and me wanting a good deal. Why go to, for example (a n other music store) to buy a CD when you can go click click click and the postie brings it tomorrow ?  Time this Government and the next re-introduced a ban on out of town shopping and then town centre traders might have some sort of a chance. 

When the government started using co2 figures to fix tax/duty to make motorists change to diesel which it did they are now changing the goalposts again because drivers have changed and some car are even zero rated(nil tax/ revenue) and guess what less revenue so whatever way we turn if revenue drops they will find some way to get it,any excuse,when only 20% of cars were using derv it was cheap and look at it now cheaper to produce but now dearer than petrol,motorist are the countries cash cow .

and always have been.

And always have been since HMG decided that cars = profit.

Switzerland - you can only go in by bus and then not all the way in as they're not allowed to due to stricter emission regs than we've got. BTW, FWIW (acronymn heaven), town centres are mainly dying due to the interweb and you and me wanting a good deal. Why go to, for example (a n other music store) to buy a CD when you can go click click click and the postie brings it tomorrow ?  Time this Government and the next re-introduced a ban on out of town shopping and then town centre traders might have some sort of a chance. 

Really?

http://www.thelocal.ch/20140204/swiss-drive-more-diesel-cars-latest-figures

The only city that has tried is Zurich and they do not have the power to do so.

Switzerland - you can only go in by bus and then not all the way in as they're not allowed to due to stricter emission regs than we've got. BTW, FWIW (acronymn heaven), town centres are mainly dying due to the interweb and you and me wanting a good deal. Why go to, for example (a n other music store) to buy a CD when you can go click click click and the postie brings it tomorrow ?  Time this Government and the next re-introduced a ban on out of town shopping and then town centre traders might have some sort of a chance. 

 

 

 Town centres have been on the way since before the wide-spread usage of the internet. Places like Merry Hill rocketed in popularity due to easy access and free parking as opposed to Labour controlled Dudley's obsession with extortionate parking charges and ridiculous road planning. Dudley council proposed enforcing parking charges on the privately owned shopping centre some 20 years ago, enormous community backlash ensued. Even today weekends are hellishly busy there. 

Here in Stafford parking charges are very cheap and as such the high street prospers. The council are also very reasonable about how the levy fines and deal with appeals, a bit of reason goes a long way. 

Which Major or Minor UK Cities have already banned Diesel Vehicles?

That would be none George. Can't see it happening either.

The Scottish Government put a date sometime far in the Future for their proposal of banning Diesels in the Centre of Glasgow & Edinburgh,

but then they are likely to be the Scottish Government in 20 years time, and hopefully technology has moved on anyway.

 

It would be good if they got the Taxis & Busses in Princess Street and Edinburgh City Centre out of the same lanes as the Trams, 

so that they were not sitting at Traffic lights behind those old Technology Diesels pumping out the high emissions.

 

It is well past time that City Centre Transport was Emission Efficient IMO.

 

Gridlock traffic in City Centres with one person in a vehicles is worse than Buses sitting burning Diesel i believe.

 

Get all Car Passengers to change to public transport at Park & Ride locations out of City Centres.

& get Inner City Deliveries done by Containers of any size,

The Haulage and Delivery Companies could deliver to Distribution Areas and not actually to Individual, Buildings, Shops, Offices, Companies etc.

That can be done by Multi Drop Delivery Vehicles.

Very Big to Small containers, transfered from HGV & Small Commercials on to Electric Delivery Vehicles. 

Build Local Authority or Commercial Out of City Depots at Commercial Parks and Rail Depots, for Transportation of goods

to be changed over to go into the Cities.

 

george

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Meh, couldn't care less about city centres. Leeds has a horrible one-way system and expensive parking. If its not something I can buy online (ie clothes), I'll drive to Xscape in Castleford or White Rose. Loads of free parking and all the shops together.

 

However, I have also ditched the black pump due to the increasing persecution of diesel drivers.

So at the same time that we are all paying an extortionate amount of cash to provide a public transport system for London, we see public transport locally being cut back to vitually nothing so we have to have a car to get around.  Anybody with any sense will go for a diesel to keep the fuel and VED costs down (unless they are going to run foul of the dreaded DPF).  Now London is trying to dictate what sort of vehicles we should drive!  I think that, basically, if you can't afford £30k for a new car Boris doesn't think you should be there.

 

The last time I spent any time in London was back in 2012 when I was involved in training volunteer drivers for the Olympics.  That experienced reinforced my view that I did the right thing in 1999 by getting out and coming back home.  I don't miss it a bit.  I go back once a year to see friends but am always very glad to be back on the M3 going home.

Which Major or Minor UK Cities have already banned Diesel Vehicles?

I didn't say the UK.

I didn't say the UK.

 

OK, so which city anywhere in the world?

Other than the likes of Paris that will ban different vehicles one week out of 2 at times of smog. And auto route bans on weekend travel etc.

Wasn't that long ago that the govt was encouraging diesels due to better emissions. But as others have said, wants to go into London anyway, the Lake District is so much nicer and have everything anyone needs.

All part of the long term sneeky plan!

Cheeky beggars.

Time to dust off your push bikes and roller blades people

JRJG

When the government started using co2 figures to fix tax/duty to make motorists change to diesel which it did they are now changing the goalposts again because drivers have changed and some car are even zero rated(nil tax/ revenue) and guess what less revenue so whatever way we turn if revenue drops they will find some way to get it,any excuse,when only 20% of cars were using derv it was cheap and look at it now cheaper to produce but now dearer than petrol,motorist are the countries cash cow .

 

Gotta make up for all the tax free eco-boxes running around robbing them of VED somehow...

Easy to tell I've just bought a derv.

 

When I bought the last car, TFSI VRS within 6 months petrol had gone up 15p/l

 

If you want to predict the future just wait till I change car then buy the opposite.