My newsreader picked up the press release this morning of the Mayor unveiling his cycling and walking programme for London. It’s quite a long package of initiatives, but stems from the recommendations from a strategic review of cycling and walking by Transport for London, so comes from Ken Livingstone the incumbent Mayor, rather than Ken [...]
Today marks the start of the London’s Low Emission Zone. This basically means that, within the zone, which pretty much encompasses the whole of Greater London administrative area, lorries and Heavy Goods Vehicles have got to meet certain standards for minimising exhaust pollution (mostly concerning NOx – Nitrogen Oxides – and ‘particulate matter‘). Lorries that [...]