In-Depth: Residents Call Bristol Clean Air Zone ‘A Tax On The Poor’

Published on February 23, 2024

Resident campaigners claim that a major clean air zone scheme that charges certain cars to enter Bristol is hitting the city’s working drivers hardest. In January the BBC reported that according to council figures, Bristol’s Clean Air Zone (CAZ) raised £26 million in its first year of operation, launching in November 2022 to charges drivers of the “most polluting vehicles” to enter the city centre. However residents who spoke to The Epoch Times said that the measures are a “tax on the poor” that pushes pollution onto other areas. There are CAZs in Bath, Birmingham, Bradford as well as Bristol that act like London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) which charge vehicles that do not meet certain emissions standards a daily fee to drive or face fines....

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