Top level TFL briefing: Ultra Low emission zone ULEZ will arrive 17 months early.

It begins April 2019 – Tim Ward TFL, ‘working with you we can improve air quality.’

IOC chairman Carl Lomas was with Tim Ward TFL for the ULEZ briefing. Tim welcomed the freight sector to the TFL 55 Broadway building in SW1, originally the ten floors rising from St James tube station was the tallest tower block in London.  Buildings, like emissions, have moved on. It was an energetic and operator-engaged discussion as the ULEZ date races forward.

Claire Alleguen, TfL, writes

Earlier this year we wrote to you about our consultation on proposals for a Direct Vision Standard (DVS) for Heavy Goods Vehicles (HGVs). The DVS aims to address the issue of HGV and vulnerable road user safety in London.

The DVS establishes a star rating for HGVs from zero (lowest) to five (highest) based on how much a HGV driver can see directly through their cab windows, as opposed to indirectly through cameras or mirrors. Under the proposal ‘zero star rated’ HGVs would be banned or restricted from London’s roads by 2020, and only HGVs rated three stars and above would be allowed into the Capital from 2024.

For full details and to share your view, please visit our consultation website at: www.tfl.gov.uk/vision-standard-phase-one

We welcome your views, so if you have not yet submitted your response, please note the consultation will close on Tuesday 18 April 2017.