'There's a big line that I keep hearing, that the polluter pays. But actually, the flip side of that is, if you can pay, you can pollute.'
A Glasgow restauranteur is backing an auto firm's fight against phase two of the city's Low Emission Zone .
He told the Glasgow Times:"What got me against it in the early stages is I know a lot of taxi drivers. He added:"It's quite an extreme bar to set, to take someone's career away from them and I feel that with the air quality targets having been met, to be robbing people of their living, their livelihood, and their business has been absolutely deplorable from the council and I think it's a disgrace."
A spokesperson for Glasgow City Council said: “Public hire taxi operators can apply for a temporary LEZ exemption if they can show they either do not have access to a funded retrofit solution or that they have applied for or submitted an expression of interest in securing retrofit funding, but are waiting for the necessary upgrades to be undertaken."
"If you want to implement something like this, then you better make sure that there's improved public transport infrastructure in place, additional park and ride facilities in place.
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