#LondonCalling: The ULEZ revolt in town and suburbs. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion
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🗓️ 30 August 2023
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#LondonCalling: The ULEZ revolt in town and suburbs. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/london-ulez-zone-expansion-2023-car-check-map-cvf9d8kj2
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| 0:35.0 | This is CBS, I'm John Batch with my colleague Joseph Sternberg, |
| 0:38.0 | member of the editorial board of Wall Street Journal, |
| 0:40.0 | his column, Political Economics, Space in London. |
| 0:43.0 | Joe lives in London and life in London is turning strange because it has new terminology I must master. |
| 0:49.0 | Ultralow, a mission zone, characterises Ulez. |
| 0:53.0 | Alright, that's an idea of the regulators, of the mayor, of the authorities. |
| 0:58.0 | The idea is to comport with the net zero over the green agenda over these next years. |
| 1:06.0 | Except, I'm looking at the London Times right now, there's a sign that says no Ulez. |
| 1:12.0 | There's a sign that says Ulez. |
| 1:15.0 | And both have been knocked over and are lying on the ground looking disconsolate. |
| 1:21.0 | I'm told from the London Times that more than 500 of these Ulez signs, they have cameras on board, |
| 1:28.0 | have been left out of action, vandalized over these last days. |
| 1:33.0 | Joe, is there some kind of revolution going on? |
| 1:35.0 | Is this the 17th century, are the Puritans riding or are people riding against the Puritans? What's happening? |
| 1:42.0 | This is Britain's version of the yellow vest protest that they had in France a few years ago, |
| 1:47.0 | which again was one of these issues about motorists getting hit with a new tax for environmental reasons. |
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