City council plans to reduce carbon emissions by fining people who don’t switch off their engines when stationary seems to have been endorsed by many of our readers

From this April, drivers in Carlisle could be fined £20 if they refuse to switch off their vehicle’s engine when stationary.

The council wants to see a positive change in behaviour in some drivers, particularly those parked in the city centre or outside of schools.

Reader Ian Jordan explained his view: “It doesn’t mean in traffic jams or traffic lights etc. It’s when you parked up, or outside shops schools etc. Just sitting with your engine running when you not going anywhere.” · Reply ·

Bryan Mitchinson: “Going round and letting the kids out of the car with the engine running, is the one I notice the most. Dangerous and illegal.”

Heidi Hilland: “Good then people are not, getting a face full of out of car exhaust.”

But there are other factors causing larger carbon

Alan Fletcher: “If the people in power made all the logging and bulldozer machine switch their engines off, and stop ploughing away all the forest for profit, then that would help climate change, and save hundreds of endangered species, bet they don,t make that law !!

Scott Thevet: “If you include buses in that, then yes, it will make a huge difference. If you do not include buses, it won’t make any difference. The inconvenient truth is it’s buses and taxis which are producing most of the NOx and particulate low level pollution”

Nic Barnes: “That means the bus drivers will be receiving 600 fines each per day then. Public transport pollutes far more than personal transport. Get the busses off the roads, save lives.”

Alexander Park: “How about we stop building on a lot of the green land so there is more tress and grass etc to filter the stuff.”

Nicholas Sabuldihin: “Council going to put out grants for new starter motors and turbos then ? Main problems caused by stop start tech.”

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