Thu May 16, 2019 8:57 pm
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We know that London is cracking the vehicle emissions whip hard having seen the recent introduction of the ULEZ on the Congestion Charge area and knowing that the ULEZ will extend considerably in 2021.
Well here is another example of the sensitivity of vehicle emissions in 'the city'. Camden council have banned ice cream vans from 40 streets in the borough citing emissions and the popularity of the vans with children as the reason; other boroughs are looking at similar restrictions. Ice cream vans keep their engines running at tickover all the time to run the cooling equipment.
Some boroughs already operate a 15-minute limitation on the operation of existing ice cream vans, with no return inside 24 hours. There is talk of perhaps installing electric hook up points which would allow the vans to operate without the engine running to offer more flexibility.
Now I can see the argument for this and at a certain level, it makes sense. However when comparing the number of ice cream vans with the number of black cabs then I find it a little difficult to make sense of this. Yes, I get the 'popular with children' bit but surely the sheer number of diesel black cabs must totally outweigh the output of ice cream vans by a factor of many thousands ....
Well here is another example of the sensitivity of vehicle emissions in 'the city'. Camden council have banned ice cream vans from 40 streets in the borough citing emissions and the popularity of the vans with children as the reason; other boroughs are looking at similar restrictions. Ice cream vans keep their engines running at tickover all the time to run the cooling equipment.
Some boroughs already operate a 15-minute limitation on the operation of existing ice cream vans, with no return inside 24 hours. There is talk of perhaps installing electric hook up points which would allow the vans to operate without the engine running to offer more flexibility.
Now I can see the argument for this and at a certain level, it makes sense. However when comparing the number of ice cream vans with the number of black cabs then I find it a little difficult to make sense of this. Yes, I get the 'popular with children' bit but surely the sheer number of diesel black cabs must totally outweigh the output of ice cream vans by a factor of many thousands ....