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Turn off your engine: Idling cabs targeted by eco-marshals

22 September 2011

Teams of "eco-marshals" are to patrol London telling taxi drivers to switch off their engines when stationary to cut pollution.

New research shows black cabs create a quarter of PM10 emissions in central London - fine airborne particles linked to health and breathing problems - and up to 15 per cent of that pollution is believed to be caused by drivers leaving engines idling when parked.

Marshals will monitor ranks at Charing Cross, Euston, King's Cross, Liverpool Street, Marylebone, Paddington and Victoria stations and
at street ranks where pollution levels are high.

Transport for London research shows idling engines create "significant" local pollution. The crackdown is the start of a series of similar campaigns aimed at other professional drivers, as well as private motorists.

It will be backed by new Department for Transport-approved signs urging drivers to switch off engines when they are not needed. Councils will also adopt the campaign.

TfL is writing to coach, bus and freight operators asking them to encourage their drivers to switch off their engines while parked.

"Pollution is a serious health issue and Boris Johnson is determined to reduce its impact," said Kulveer Ranger, the Mayor's environment director.

Action being taken to deliver a permanent legacy of cleaner London air includes the first age limit for black cabs, tighter standards for the Low Emission Zone, cleaner buses and an expanded bike hire scheme, he added.

TfL said: "We want to work with drivers not against them, which is why some of the eco-marshals are former cabbies themselves and know the challenges faced. Turning off the engine when possible also cuts fuel consumption and so saves drivers money."

Other anti-pollution moves include expanding Transport for London's dust suppressant trial, which sees a coating sprayed on to carriageways to prevent PM10s re-circulating.

Source; http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/ ... arshals.do

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Every bar in London has scabs touting outside unhindered, but TFL find the man power to ask Licensed Taxi drivers to switch of their engines?

What a bunch of assholes TFL are.

It is my opinion that we should require that all Office Premises switch off their Heating Systems until the overall level of pollution has been reduced!

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Sign o' the times I'm afraid, thieving is condoned, murder is condoned, rape is condoned, but anything to do with a car and the freedom jockey in it isn't.

I'm kinda enjoying it in a way, when there is no such thing as a pub anymore, and all morale standards are gone and I'm very old I'm going to laugh as loud as my lungs will allow in public and say just before I pop the clogs, you brought it on yourselves, have a nice day.

I might also turn it around before hand, there is a rule in insurance that uninsured, no licence, no mot, no tax means if you have a crash you are to blame even if you aren't, this is because you shouldn't have been on the road, and had you not been there would not have been a crash, work this into real life, you got shot cos you were raiding my home, you got decked cos you were rude to me, you ........ well you got the message by now, all goes back to the old saying....do unto others as you wish for them to do to you, now that's in the bible, Luke 6.31, and if Luke says so then so do I.

never mind pollution, i cant afford to leave my engine running

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