Bristol clean air zone drivers

As council bosses attempt to gently implement the new system, motorists who drive into Bristol’s Clean Air Zone without paying the fee will be fined £120 for the first six weeks of the scheme.

The ‘Special Pay Offer’ scheme put in place by Bristol City Council, which will run from the day the Clean Air Zone starts on November 28th through December and into the New Year, will allow drivers caught in trouble by the cameras a reprieve. The show scheme will end on January 8, but any motorist who drives into the Clean Air Zone with a car that is responsible for paying the toll but has not done so from Monday January 9—six weeks after the zone began operating—will have to pay the fine. Bristol Clean Air District: Everything we know about the scheme a month before it goes into effect The special payment offer scheme will offer motorists who have not paid a clean air zone fee the chance to do so within seven days, and they will not be fined. If the motorist pays the fare for that trip – which is set at £9 for a car or van and £100 for a van, bus or van over 3.5 tonnes – the fine will be waived. But if the motorist doesn’t pay the toll within seven days, they do will You are liable for the fine – this is currently set at £120 per penalty ticket, which drops to £60 if paid within 14 days. Motorists fined for driving in a CAZ in a toll car will also have to pay the initial fee, in addition to the fine, so after January 9, a trip to the Clean Air Zone without paying the toll first will cost motorists £129 or £69. pounds sterling. It is estimated that between 75-80 per cent of privately owned vehicles in Bristol will not be affected at all by the Clean Air Zone as they are newer models and do not pollute enough to qualify for shipping. The council has set up a website where drivers can provide their registration number and see if CAZ applies to them.

However, a quarter or a fifth of vehicles that will be responsible for paying CAZ tolls is still a considerable number. When the Zone Clean Air cameras installed at entrances to Bristol city center from Bath Road at Totterdown to Portway and Winterstock Road at Ashton Gate came into operation in September, the city council tested the systems by generating and sending messages to every motorist whose car would be liable for the toll.

In the three weeks of September, nearly 100,000 motorists received messages warning them that starting November 28, they would have to pay a Clean Air Zone fee before making the same trip again.