Mayor of London refuses to hand over cars to Kyiv that the British scrapped
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Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, rejected the Kyiv mayor's request to transfer scrapped cars to Ukraine, citing that the ULEZ recycling scheme should benefit Londoners.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has not given his consent to the transfer of cars that British citizens handed over for scrap as part of the program to combat harmful emissions. This was reported by The Telegraph, according to UNN.
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It is noted that the mayor of London Sadiq Khan rejected the request of Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko to hand over the cars handed over by residents of the British capital as not meeting environmental requirements.
London has a program called ULEZ (Ultra Low Emission Zone), according to which motorists can receive a one-time payment of 2000 pounds if they scrap a car that does not meet environmental requirements. requirements or pay a daily fee of £12.5.
In September, Klitschko wrote to Khan and offered to to transfer some of the vehicles to Ukraine to the front line to save lives and transportation.
The program mainly covers all-wheel drive cars and pickup trucks that are "extremely necessary on the front line" in Ukraine.
A few months later, on December 12, the mayor of London responded to Klitschko, that he would not allow the proposal to go ahead because it did not meet the "legal threshold" that requires the ULEZ recycling scheme to bring Londoners from an "economic, social and environmental from an "economic, social and environmental point of view".
Addendum
This decision of Sadiq Khan has already been criticized by the Conservative candidate for Conservative London mayoral candidate Sonia Hall and a member of the Car for Ukraine volunteer initiative Richard Lofthouse.
