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Still rumbling on yet...

Not much concrete new information here, apart from the stated numbers, and that the extended deadline was originally March this year.

But the big unanswered question here is what happens now to the non-compliant cabs, and has another date been set?

No doubt there's more specific info in the council papers...

(My 16% number in the thread title is a tad speculative, as explained below...)


44 Glasgow taxis still not compliant with low emission zone rules

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/256 ... one-rules/


Image: Colin Mearns/Herald Scotland

Nearly all taxi drivers in Glasgow are now compliant with the low emission zone rules. Out of a total of 1,217 taxi vehicles, only 44 do not meet the LEZ standard.

And eight out of those 44 have been retrofitted to adhere to the environmental rules and are due to undergo checks before returning to the road.

Glasgow City Council had set a goal to finish the transition to zero emission taxis in the city centre by March this year.

Drivers were given extra time to have their taxis retrofitted so they could meet the standards.

The city’s licensing and regulatory committee is tasked with making sure taxis and private hire cars comply – and operators who breach the regulations could face suspension or lose their licences.

Glasgow’s LEZ came into force in June, 2023 – banning certain polluting vehicles from entering city centre streets. Motorists are fined if their vehicles aren’t LEZ compliant.

Figures revealed during a council meeting earlier this year showed almost 30,000 LEZ penalty charge notices have been handed out during its second year with over £750,000 collected.

The data on taxis was included in a report presented to this week’s Operational Performance and Delivery Scrutiny Committee on the council’s strategic plan performance.

So that's 36 presumably not retrofitted, thus if they don't comply then that would mean 1,181 left.

Prior to lockdown there were 1,420, and lockdown didn't seem to affect numbers much, with 1,408 left in January 2023.

So assuming the subsequent drop in numbers is down to LEZ, in the last three years or so 191 have disappeared, which would represent a 13.6% reduction.

Assuming the 36 remaining non-compliant cabs which haven't been retrofitted now disappear, that would be 227 gone in the last three years, or a 16.1% drop

Separate from the LEZ, Glasgow still has the 'newer substitute' rule.

So if a plate-holder upgraded for the LEZ to (say) a used 2020 cab and it gets written off, it can only be replaced by a newer cab - (not older, even if the replacement is LEZ compliant).

They won't be spoiled for choice and it won't be cheap.