Explainer: Could motorists be charged for driving through gridlocked cities and towns under new plan?

Explainer: Could motorists be charged for driving through gridlocked cities and towns under new plan?In London most vehicles, including cars and vans, need to meet the ultra-low emission zone emissions standards or their drivers must pay a daily charge to drive within the zone. Photograph: Lucy North/PA Wire

The scale of congestion inevitably means that by 2030 motorists manoeuvring through our main cities and large towns are likely to be facing some new charges designed to disincentivise the private car. The strategy allows local authorities to decide what form they might be – congestion charges, fees for entering low emission zones or clean air zones .

In London most vehicles, including cars and vans, need to meet the ultra-low emission zone emissions standards or their drivers must pay a daily charge to drive within the zone, which is £12.50 for most vehicle types, including cars, motorcycles and vans and £100 for heavier vehicles, including lorries and buses or coaches.

Failure on climate commitments could result in “noncompliance costs” – in other words hefty EU fines – in the order of €3.5 billion by the end of the decade.

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