Madrid has recently mentioned that it has plans to create a LOW-EMISSION zone in the city centre and would ban all cars from polluting the city. The suggested TOLL is similar to the ones implemented in other European coutries such as London, Milan and Germany – called the CONGESTION CHARGE.If this gets the GO-AHEAD then only certain cars that achieve the Euro lll emission standards or higher would be allowed in the city centre and the rest would have to pay.
German cities require Euro lV and Diesel Particulate Filters for vehicles – this is a strict ENFORCEMENT.
Residents in the city would be EXEMPT from these measures - as they are in London, because they live in the city centre and therefore would not be expected to pay.
However if this goes ahead it would have a major impact on daily commuters and business deliveries and could reduce revenue activity and SCARE people from coming into the city.
What do you think of this issue?
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January 2013
Morgan v Jones - Guns in America
by Radmila Gurkova
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XZvMwcluEg
Was it a debate? A BERATING? A SURREAL televised ''stunt''?
Alex Jones, a radio presenter in Austin Texas and a believer that everyone has a right to own a gun went on Piers Morgan’s CNN show the other week. Jones has started a petition to deport Morgan back to the UK for expressing his views on g...
American GLOBETROTTER travels a million miles in 2012
by Radmila Gurkova
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpI2L_OQnZo
Tom Stuker, 59, passed the million mark on a flight from London to Chicago on December 6. Mr Stuker works as a car sales consultant and has to fly all over the world. He frequently JETS OFF to Asia and Australia, and has taken about 400 flights so far this year.He always uses the U.S. ai...
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6S0_7OU7G4
The U.S. town of Concord in Massachusetts State has banned stores from selling water in bottles that are smaller than one liter. Stores who sell the water will have to pay a $50 fine. The new law is the result of a three-year campaign by local resident Jean Hill.
Ms Hill first told peop...
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSrdQ8DeaLI
'Happy Birthday' is one of several numbers Cath Gamester, 84, hears on a constant loop throughout the day. The grandmother from Liverpool has musical ear syndrome, where the sufferer has auditory hallucinations...Since it started in 2010, she said she had heard songs including God Save T...
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5J0NecLhLA
On Friday morning, December 7th, 27 people were KILLED in a SHOOTING at an elementary school at Newtown, Connecticut, USA. The victims are 20 children, six adults, and the shooter. The shooter was Adam Lanza, 20 years old.
''We can't tolerate this any more,'' President Obama said. ''These tragedie...
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXLDO8twt8I
"Don't come to our 'safe' village for the end of the world" says mayor
Believers say the world will end on December 21, 2012, the end date of the ancient Mayan calendar, and they see Bugarach as one of a few sacred mountains sheltered from the cataclysm.
December 21 marks the end of an ...
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mExgZggwFJw
Apparently a monkey was CONFISCATED by animal authorities after it was found WANDERING ERRANTLY around Ikea car park on Toronto Canada.
The five-month old Resus monkey was taken to an animal shelter but was warm and SNUG in a SHEEPSKIN jacket.
There would be no action taken against the...
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5DoDSijMz0
There are an awful lot of BIZARRE names around nowadays. So it takes something really special to make us stop and do a DOUBLE-TAKE. But this is something really special. Ready? It appears that a proud new Mum has named her baby daughter 'HASHTAG'. Well, that's what she announced on Facebook anyway....
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0
How often do you watch YouTube music videos? Have you seen the recent Gangnam Style video? If so, then you are one of around 971m other people!
The video to the global smash hit song Gangnam Style has become the most-watched clip in YouTube's history. It is now moving quickly tow...