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The point is to stop them using highly polluting cars OR stop driving altogether OR something in the middle. So the person you're responding to is right. The "older people" were saying in a roundabout away that they'd rather stop driving than playing along by getting less polluting car. And the correct answer to that is indeed: "you've made your choice, that was the entire point".

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> The point is to stop them using highly polluting cars OR stop driving altogether OR something in the middle.

You can get a compliant car for as little as 1000 pounds. Virtually all gasoline powered cars after 2010 are compliant. It's not about stopping people driving altogether.

Or just.. use it less, and pay the appropriate fee when they do.

£10 a couple of times a week seems a pretty good deal if you're used to getting place by overground train & bus.

Now do LTNs

Stop ubers and white vans taking shortcuts down residential streets that are being made unsafe by high amounts of traffic.

I'm not british either, but I understand the culture here is to disparage and discriminate against poor people in a slightly more polite and indirect way.

LTN's are mostly in poor neighbourhoods, this is preventing high amounts of traffic in them.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2021/mar/02...

Fines are discrimination against poor people, got it. They don't have those in wherever you're from?

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