Issue - meetings

Forward Plan Ref: 2010/055

Contact: Dick Helling, Public Transport Officer, Tel: (01865) 815859

Report by Head of Transport (CMDGI4).

to:

(a)               note that the LEZ, as proposed, will apply only to local bus services and not to all PSVs;

(b)              note that the proposed qualifying agreement is expected to produce substantial benefits for air quality in Oxford city centre, and to ask officers to quantify these benefits as soon as full information is available;

(c)               note that use of a QPS to implement the proposed LEZ is not being pursued, for the reasons described above; and

(d)       instruct officers to continue to develop an application to the Traffic Commissioner for a Traffic Regulation Condition, requiring all local bus services operating in Oxford city centre to meet Euro V standard for nitrogen oxides, in accordance with the timescale outlined in paragraph 19 of this report.