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Cutting toxic levels of city air pollution to safer levels is simple, but not easy-it requires resolve. Yet, despite
the key culprit (罪犯) in the UK being well known-diesel (柴油机的) vehicles-the government has been asleep at
Levels of nitrogen dioxide (二氧化氮) have been illegally high across much of the UK since 2010. In 2015
86% of major urban areas broke annual limits. Cutting this pollution means choking off diesel emissions and there
Creating zones in city centres where polluting care are either banned or charged is important, while making
Cleaner buses and taxis have an important role to play and change to the perverse taxes that encourage
people to buy diesel over cleaner cars is needed. There is also some support for a revival of a scrappage scheme
The environment and transport departments were well aware of all this and proposed many of these
measures internally, only for the Treasury to reject most of them, arguing they “ would be politically very difficult,
Motorists happen to be particularly badly exposed to air pollution, but the real political difficulty for the
government is two humiliating legal defeats in two years where judges ruled its air pollution plans were so bad
Ministers have now been forced to come up with a third plan, but clean air zones and car tax changes take
time to clean up the air. Yet the UK government is also in the slow lane when it comes to emergency measures.
When foul air descended on Paris in December, officials there swung into action. Public transport was made
free and the number of cars allowed on roads was restricted, alternately barring those with odd and even licence
plates. In the UK, during the same December smog, the government sent a few tweets.
At the root of the problem are diesel cars, which successive governments across Europe have utterly failed
to ensure meet legal emissions limits when driving in real-world conditions on the road. The gaming of regulatory
tests by carmakers was blown open by the Volkswagen scandal. The scandal of governments prioritising supposed
driver freedom over the lungs and health of their citizens is only now playing out.
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