Darren Johnson has responded to the London Mayor’s claim that he will make London a cleaner and greener city by 2012
Darren Johnson said:
"The London Mayor might say he wants a cleaner, greener city, but his policies are actually making London dirtier and more polluted. He cancelled the £25 charge on gas guzzlers, suspended tighter regulation of 90,000 of the most polluting vans and is planning to ditch the western extension of the congestion charge. The Mayor is also failing to deliver on his own plans with a £13m underspend on the environment last year, no commitment to build a carbon free olympic village and the knowledge that electric vehicles will make little impact by 2012."
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Boris Johnson is quoted by AFP news agency at a press conference:
"Mayor Boris Johnson outlined plans to make London "the cleanest, greenest city on earth" by the 2012 Olympics and called for commitments from other world cities at a climate change conference.
"I don’t want to walk away with a communique which contains nothing but warm words and hot air… it’s important we agree some specific measures."
He said the capital wants to use the Olympics "to drive the greening and the improvement of our city" and noted that London is committed to reduce carbon emissions by 60 percent by 2025.
Johnson said there would be a substantial programme in the next few years to produce a "cleaner, greener" bus for his city. "The age of the diesel-emitting bus has got to be over in London."