It may be slightly disingenuous to be arguing substance over form and then make a point with regards to capitalisation of letters in a name. Not withstanding that small contradiction, as always the points are well made.
I would sum it up in the following way, if the purpose of a low emission zone is to reduce emissions then the sole factor at issue can only be the emissions of the said vehicle. if all our equal under the law then it cannot be lawful to charge two people differing amounts if their vehicles have the same engine that produces identical emissions. This is not only a breach of equity but also a breach of logic and common sense and for an adjudicator to be wilfully blind to this is rather worrying.
There is a further question which should be raised which is if this vehicle were a car and not a van then would it have been charged to enter the zone ? This argument seems to be missing…
It should also be mentioned that the Metropolitan police are operating an air quality speed limit in London that similarly charges drivers of electric vehicles with no emissions whatsoever. The excuse for doing this was that it would be too difficult to differentiate between the vehicle classifications and it was too dangerous to have one type of vehicle doing 60 mile an hour and another type of vehicle doing 70 mile an hour. When this type of bent logic is applied it becomes obvious to see that this is not about air quality it’s just about money. For anybody that is interested there is a whole thread about air quality speed limits on the what do they know platform
It may be slightly disingenuous to be arguing substance over form and then make a point with regards to capitalisation of letters in a name. Not withstanding that small contradiction, as always the points are well made.
I would sum it up in the following way, if the purpose of a low emission zone is to reduce emissions then the sole factor at issue can only be the emissions of the said vehicle. if all our equal under the law then it cannot be lawful to charge two people differing amounts if their vehicles have the same engine that produces identical emissions. This is not only a breach of equity but also a breach of logic and common sense and for an adjudicator to be wilfully blind to this is rather worrying.
There is a further question which should be raised which is if this vehicle were a car and not a van then would it have been charged to enter the zone ? This argument seems to be missing…
It should also be mentioned that the Metropolitan police are operating an air quality speed limit in London that similarly charges drivers of electric vehicles with no emissions whatsoever. The excuse for doing this was that it would be too difficult to differentiate between the vehicle classifications and it was too dangerous to have one type of vehicle doing 60 mile an hour and another type of vehicle doing 70 mile an hour. When this type of bent logic is applied it becomes obvious to see that this is not about air quality it’s just about money. For anybody that is interested there is a whole thread about air quality speed limits on the what do they know platform