I read in the last issue a letter from G J Bagnall [routeone/Letters/15 November]. I wish everyone was as honest as he is.
I am in utter disbelief that taxis – PCV vehicles – are exempt from any charges. It’s a disgrace to the industry in my opinion.
This must go under some sort of discrimination against coach companies. Why does the Mayor of London allow the worst polluting vehicles to be exempt and retrofitted Euro 4 coaches to be fined? What is the point in trying to be legal and fit euro standard exhausts when there not considered any good?
It’s always the coach companies that get the raw deal.
It’s been proven that coaches are less polluting than most other vehicles, so what does the Mayor do? He makes the worst polluting vehicles exempt and gives them a scheme to buy new vehicles, or help towards the cost.
Does the Mayor not like coaches? Or doesn’t he have a clue?
I believe this to be decimating towards coach companies who try and keep pollution low. It’s about time coach companies acted instead of sitting on the fence and hoping it will go away.
John Connelly, Connelly Coaches
