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12.5 GBP is a laughable sum as a pollution charge. Wonder if work was done to model public health costs as this price. Is it inflation indexed?

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It's £12.50 per vehicle per day.

I doubt that public health costs of a single vehicle used for a single day add up to anywhere near that much - perhaps only 1% or less of that.

I have no idea if you are claiming this amount is too low or too high.

Remains to be seen what happens. It depends on how pollution goes after.

This is just an expansion of the existing ULEZ which has had a fairly positive effect since it was introduced in 2016: https://www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/air_quality_in...

Sry should have been clear, too low. So low it's easy to ignore

Average Londoner earns something like 40k GBP/yr. If they have to pay the congestion charge every day, that'll eat up 12.5% of their annual income.

But I agree, it'd be nice if the charge was 100GBP per day and I was the only person on the roads.

I think the hope is with the fee on an average day you don't drive and you drive only when you really need it so the proportion of income should be lower and the fee higher to compensate.

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