City Hall claim ULEZ expansion has improved air quality in London

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City Hall has claimed the ULEZ expansion has improved air quality in London.   It says roadside pollution in outer London was down an average of 3.5% on what it would have been without Ulez in the six months after the zone was extended last August.

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00:00Expanding London's ultra-low emission zone has had a positive impact on air quality and

00:06reduced harmful emissions from cars and vans, according to a City Hall report. It says roadside

00:13pollution in outer London was down an average of 3.5% on what it would have been without

00:20EULES in the six months after the zone was extended last August.

00:25Carbon oxide emissions from cars are estimated to have reduced by 13% and from vans by 7%

00:32as drivers scrapped or cut down on driving their polluting vehicles. London's Mayor

00:38Sadiq Khan has claimed it was better than predicted, but the Tories said hundreds of

00:43millions of pounds had been spent on a minimal reduction in pollution. City Hall also claimed

00:49the reduction in emissions was equivalent to removing 200,000 cars from the road for

00:54one year. For more on this, head to londonworld.com

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