Part of this post reiterates things that other like minded forum users have said in response to this thread, because it's true and I agree with it fully.
It doesn't make sense to disrupt public transport. The tube has been electrified and creates no direct emissions from the movement of trains at all and has been proudly doing so for however many decades now. The Mayor of London has also ordered all new double decker buses ordered post 2017 to be hybrid Euro VI compliant. This means that those red London buses you see are amongst the cleanest vehicles in the UK as far as current technology is concerned. Most tenders that get awarded now as well see existing older buses being modified to being Euro VI compliant as well. All new single decker buses from late 2016 have also had to be either zero emissions if they go into zone 1 (see hydrogen buses on route RV1 - but only until June
) or fully electric buses on routes 46, 70, 153, 360, 507, 521 and C1. Those that don't go into zone 1 are still equipped with stop-start technology to keep emissions as to a low when idle.
TfL also has this new hobby where they rip out gyratories and put traffic calming measures and usually block up one side to be restricted to pedestrian and cycling traffic only (see Archway, Elephant & Castle etc.). Every other road is now being turned into a cycle way of some sort.
Just last Monday the ULEZ (Ultra Low Emissions Zone) started up in addition to T-charge. Whilst initially it covers the Congestion Charge area it is planned to roll out to the North and South Circular Road within a year or two.
As much as I personally don't like the Mayor of London, his administration and Boris's have both planned and delivered to reduce air emissions a lot in a short space of time. The EXR group seems to take no note of this and refuses to award any credit to this.
All of the protests they are doing are just disruptive and in some cases that is planned, highly dangerous for everyone involved. I genuinely hope rail staff get the support they need to cope with this over the next couple of weeks.
Asking for a 2025 zero carbon emissions is very unrealistic. Of course climate change is a problem but the government has widely addressed this issue. It costs too much money to do it in six years. These people have no understanding of money or economic welfare. Only so much money gets thrown at this cause. The rest of it has to go to higher priority things such as the NHS, the Police, funding new housing and tackling day to day social injustices. And Brexit
. The more you allocate to climate change, the less there is for the rest of us which creates more problems than it solves.
It doesn't also make sense to target regular day to day people who are trying to go about their lives. Clearly the target for this protest are politicians and the government. So why not confine it to Parliament Square? And furthermore, why are you protesting when Parliament is on recess?! Nobody relevant or in charge will care or address this issue for another week at least.