{"id":603098,"date":"2019-04-08T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T14:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=4017cb486ebe4957f71d3a4b842fa1cb"},"modified":"2019-04-08T10:00:02","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T14:00:02","slug":"air-pollution-causes-chronic-health-problems-will-londons-new-charge-on-drivers-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=603098","title":{"rendered":"Air pollution causes chronic health problems &ndash; will London&#8217;s new charge on drivers help?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new ultra-low emission zone (ULEZ) is being introduced in London, to reduce harmful emissions from traffic and improve air quality. Those who drive polluting vehicles into the city centre will face a daily charge \u2013 \u00a312.50 for cars, motorcycles and vans, and \u00a3100 for lorries, buses and coaches \u2013 on top of the existing congestion charge. By October 2021, the scheme will expand to cover an area 18 times larger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new ultra-low emission zone (ULEZ) is being introduced in London, to reduce harmful emissions from traffic and improve air quality. Those who drive polluting vehicles into the city centre will face a daily charge &ndash; &pound;12.50 for cars, motorcycles and vans, and &pound;100 for lorries, buses and coaches &ndash; on top of the existing congestion charge. By October 2021, the scheme will expand to cover an area 18 times larger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-603098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=603098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":603099,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603098\/revisions\/603099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=603098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=603098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=603098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}