Wightlink is reminding its customers about charges they face when the Portsmouth Clean Air Zone (CAZ) comes into operation from Monday 29th November 2021.
Cars and vans going to and from Wightlink’s car ferry terminal in Gunwharf Road will not be charged. Drivers of these vehicles can continue to use Wightlink’s services as usual. Motorcycles are also exempt.
The only vehicles to be charged will be older taxis, private hire vehicles, buses, coaches and lorries (HGVs).
The charge will be £10 for taxis and private hire vehicles and £50 for HGVs that are older than Euro 6 if diesel, and older than Euro 4 if petrol.
Portsmouth City Council is introducing the CAZ as some areas of the city centre have levels of pollutants, like nitrogen dioxide, that are likely to remain above safe legal limits unless action is taken now. To find out more, see www.travel.portsmouth.gov.uk/schemes/charging-clean-air-zone.
If you’re not sure if you will be charged, you can enter your vehicle’s registration number on the website above to check any charges.
For more information about travelling with Wightlink and the CAZ visit www.wightlink.co.uk/caz.
Clearly once, an MP must have joked about ‘It is a shame we can’t charge the plebs for fresh air’, and the joke was jumped upon by some bright spark, and now, under the lying guise, of ‘saving the planet’ they are, and, after brainwashing the school kids, have a growing captive but very gullible audiance to milk, forever.
Meanwhile the self brain washing gullible in their echo chambers of miss information and conspiracy theories destroy the environment because they think watching some youTube and using google some how makes them an expert. Please explain to the people around the world why it is that we should be allow to mindlessly burn fossil fuels whilst their towns and cities become submerged under the sea. I expect you’ll still be calling it fake when you’re up to your armpits in water with no food to eat.
If there wasnt one petrol or diesel vehicle in the world, it would make no difference whatsoever to the climate, despite the gullible greenwashed misinformation put out by so called enviromentalists. The only thing that needs sorting is overpopulation, and that wasnt mentioned at that waste of time and money in scotland last week. Clean air zones are just more pointless box ticking.
my vehicle has a euro 5 diesel engine so is liable for charges in london yet at its mot last week no harmful emissions could be detected due to its efficient DPF filter and equally effective catalytic convertor yet there seems to be no way to challenge the liability so is this fair?
“The only vehicles to be charged will be older taxis, private hire vehicles, buses, coaches and lorries (HGVs).”
from what I’ve heard from friends who have such things,.. Camper vans will also be charged £50 per time 🙁
I think Red Funnel are going to get a lot more business…
I had a letter from Portsmouth council advising me that I would be charged 50:00 per day in my motorhome as they class it as a hgv. It’s gvw is 3850
All to do with the climate, lol
Just another Tory Stealth Tax
No! This is socialist dogma.