The government will take £2 from every fine given to drivers in Bradford's Clean Air Zone , councillors have been told.Drivers of HGVs and buses breaching pollution limits will pay £50, while vans and minibuses will be charged £9 and taxis £7.
The scheme was originally due to start in spring this year, but was delayed to allow further testing of the monitoring system.a meeting of councillors heard several areas of Bradford are exceeding the legal pollution limit levels for Nitrogen Dioxide which are set at 40 µg/m3. The committee was told that the council had been given £41m by Government to help implement the CAZ, with much of this money going on grants for businesses to upgrade their vehicles.
"That has led to 92% of all private hire drivers in the district now being compliant. That means we have the cleanest taxi fleet anywhere in the UK," he said.
Source: Car News Wire (carnewswire.net)
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