telephone box and black taxis identify a lot you know when you say one of these vehicles you automatically know that you are in london. but a change is coming to come out and pollution london in spain cialis diesel powered cabs as of twenty eight c. only e-cards of being issued new operating licenses not to everyone s liking if you lose the lawsons london taxi you lose part of london s identity. and so recognisable. london s black cabs have cold status but they re also major polluters unlike these new cabs they re quiet and much cleaner than diesel powered taxis besides other advantages. we ve got door in completely opposite direction. passes coming this way so they can get fit in the gaps and it would be
colleague owns eighty diesel powered cabs and a governor to service them. and he s worried he would have to start from scratch when that down from london streets which i personally have about one hundred fifty thousand pounds if the government wanted to come in and give me a growing or i could see the state of the trade being able to sustain me spending that money and earning it back potentially at this moment in time. it may have divided opinion within the british capital but london s taxi transformation is in full gear gradually making new cities a cleaner. who cares about the shallow industry s destructive impacts i do you who cares about l g b t rights in australia. argument. has about female empowerment in
much does he save for its three pound i.e. and six pounds. you know the provider you are using. jemima hartshorn once dirty diesel comes to disappear from the city streets sooner rather than later. she s concerned about the health of london s children which is why she founded the mums for lungs initiative. insists on like council traditional black cabs are amongst the biggest contributors to nitrogen oxides and fine particle emissions in central london they re all diesel powered so it s great that gradually disappeared from our street side to every one of those on taxis as a fifteen year operating license so it will be twenty thirty three before that all replaced by eternities. but steve kansan thinks the change is happening too fast he feels overwhelmed and he s not alone one
our traffic. u.s.p. pool here what for as well so connected over here. controlled by the driver you have to pass around a roof on a good day say the sights along. it s just been a revolution. in a bentley because the badge looks a little bit like and see. this taxi or we re in a bentley was it was a little bit you know the experience was completely different so yeah it s been it s been different steve kansans older diesel taxi can t compete with such fancy features all he can do is keep his cap spotless he s all for clean air to the things the new e-cards the two luxurious for london and about twenty five percent more than regular diesel cabs too expensive a sixty two thousand vehicle which is what the new taxi is to put that in perspective puts it into the same price bracket as
million people died there from the effects of ad pollution in africa that figure was one million in the middle east around half a million and in europe to more than five hundred thousand people died last year as a result of poor air quality in the u.s. three hundred thousand. many cities are now tackling the problem head on by banning vehicles with particularly dirty engines. electrode mobility is the way forward but making the switch is a hard and expensive process. steve kearns and is proud to be a london taxi driver who s been behind the wheel of one of the city s quite conic black cabs for twenty seven years now and he loves his job. when you look at. pictures of lund whether it be unfair or what you say already.