Avoid Bradford

[Petehvan]

If you drive through Bradford with minibus or a van you are charged £7.00 for their clean air zone, drive through with a motorhome and you are charged £50.

 

[tacr2man]

Not a destination on my bucket list , but good heads up for someone who strays

 

[Guigsy]

If you drive through Bradford with minibus or a van you are charged £7.00 for their clean air zone, drive through with a motorhome and you are charged £50.

If your motorhome is more than roughly 8 years old (so not Euro6), you'll be charged.

Then if it's up to 3.5t, it's £9. If it's more than 3.5t, it's £50.

 

[Barryh]

Reason number 2 is it’s a cash for crash hotspot.

 

[Brains]

Same applies to:

• Bath
• Bradford
• Birmingham
• Bristol
• London
• Glasgow
• Manchester
• Newcastle/Gateshead
• Portsmouth
• Sheffield

With the current zones to get larger and more stringent, and more cities to follow soon.

Basically unless your motorhome is Euro 6 (2014'ish onwards) you will progressively be 'tolled' at a higher and higher amount in more and more places.
(Same applies to mainland cities Europe wide map here)

What I don't understand why a 2013/Euro 5 motorhome is selling for almost the same price as a 2014/Euro 6 motorhome.
In my book the Euro 5 vehicle should be a least a third cheaper, if not more.

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[Peterd82]

Not Manchester… yet. It has been postponed while Andy Burnham thinks up some sort of alternative.

 

[Guigsy]

Not Manchester… yet. It has been postponed while Andy Burnham thinks up some sort of alternative.

Yeah. All the other schemes are city centres and a few square miles. The Manchester one was pretty much the whole region and a totally different type of scheme.

 

[Mzracer]

If you drive through Bradford with minibus or a van you are charged £7.00 for their clean air zone, drive through with a motorhome and you are charged £50.

Additionally, be very careful driving down the Otley road towards Craigs Honda or Speciality covers and turning into Dockside road as that is effectively a massive dead end. The problem comes as you try to get back on the Otley Road as you cannot turn right but are obliged to turn left straight into the clean air zone, it is a trap !!

I will be fighting it as we got trapped.

I could add a lot of expletives about Bradford but I have been cautioned in the last week or so for being rude on MHF, so I will let you all imagine the expletives but they were colourful prior to receiving the penalty notice, never mind now !!

 

[Mzracer]

Same applies to:

• Bath
• Bradford
• Birmingham
• Bristol
• London
• Glasgow
• Manchester
• Newcastle/Gateshead
• Portsmouth
• Sheffield

With the current zones to get larger and more stringent, and more cities to follow soon.

Basically unless your motorhome is Euro 6 (2014'ish onwards) you will progressively be 'tolled' at a higher and higher amount in more and more places.
(Same applies to mainland cities Europe wide map here)

What I don't understand why a 2013/Euro 5 motorhome is selling for almost the same price as a 2014/Euro 6 motorhome.
In my book the Euro 5 vehicle should be a least a third cheaper, if not more.

I would say that in your list it is only Bath and Manchester that are not total dumps and to be avoided at all cost in anycase!!

 

[steve69]

The noose slowly tightens on all motorists. We are all just a cash-cow now. Just wait. I have no doubt other ways of extracting more cash from our wallets will appear in the next couple of years, mark my words.

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[Yorick]

I left Bradistan in 1996

 

[DT]

Government's bleed the motorist dry while we are left swerving around potholed third world roads. If Sunak was to announce a major immediate start on road repairs he would get plenty of votes.

 

[Bobby-gg]

You can apply for exemption for Motorhomes for Newcastle & Gateshead

 

[TheTwoOfUs]

I would say that in your list it is only Bath and Manchester that are not total dumps and to be avoided at all cost in anycase!!

There, I've corrected that for you.

 

[Simon Meadwell]

Same applies to:

• Bath
• Bradford
• Birmingham
• Bristol
• London
• Glasgow
• Manchester
• Newcastle/Gateshead
• Portsmouth
• Sheffield

With the current zones to get larger and more stringent, and more cities to follow soon.

Basically unless your motorhome is Euro 6 (2014'ish onwards) you will progressively be 'tolled' at a higher and higher amount in more and more places.
(Same applies to mainland cities Europe wide map here)

What I don't understand why a 2013/Euro 5 motorhome is selling for almost the same price as a 2014/Euro 6 motorhome.
In my book the Euro 5 vehicle should be a least a third cheaper, if not more.

Not Manchester . The ulez idea is canned for now.

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[Aireworth]

Additionally, be very careful driving down the Otley road towards Craigs Honda or Speciality covers and turning into Dockside road as that is effectively a massive dead end.

But there's very few reasons to turn down there.

I could add a lot of expletives about Bradford

It may be bad, but its not as bad as that

 

[PaulyP]

Yeah. All the other schemes are city centres and a few square miles. The Manchester one was pretty much the whole region and a totally different type of scheme.

Burnham saw the chance to make money, when there was a massive uproar he quickly blamed the government, not my fault they wanted it I didn’t want it from the start, total and utter lying barsteward, now looking for another way of doing it.

 

[The Wino]

Same applies to:

• Bath
• Bradford
• Birmingham
• Bristol
• London
• Glasgow
• Manchester
• Newcastle/Gateshead
• Portsmouth
• Sheffield

With the current zones to get larger and more stringent, and more cities to follow soon.

Basically unless your motorhome is Euro 6 (2014'ish onwards) you will progressively be 'tolled' at a higher and higher amount in more and more places.
(Same applies to mainland cities Europe wide map here)

What I don't understand why a 2013/Euro 5 motorhome is selling for almost the same price as a 2014/Euro 6 motorhome.
In my book the Euro 5 vehicle should be a least a third cheaper, if not more.

It's because no one has caught on yet. It was the same with the ved rates when they charged MH as luxury cars

 

[billym]

The trouble for us about Bradford is that the low emission zone includes the ring road which often makes our journeys longer and even more polluting

 

[PaulyP]

Interestingly I’ve just been looking at Edinburgh’s scam zone as I’m going up there in a few weeks to see my son, my 2.8 diesel dodge 4x4 is not compliant, I think I’m going to be out of the zone but no way will I pay the scam charges anyway.

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[Guigsy]

The trouble for us about Bradford is that the low emission zone includes the ring road which often makes our journeys longer and even more polluting

Birmingham's CAZ doesn't include the ring road. Although it does include the A38, which is a main road that slices through the middle.

Every scheme is being implemented differently. There's little commonality. Which makes it all the harder for visitors to negotiate. There should be a national standard approach.

 

[tinkertaylor]

I would say that in your list it is only Bath and Manchester that are not total dumps and to be avoided at all cost in anycase!!

Morons are out again, intellectually challenged big gobs, all their research done with the DM and GBnews.

 

[westhamman]

I would disagree, London although having some unsavoury sides has stunning architecture, world class museums and galleries as well as many leading theatres. Historic buildings, statues and tourist attractions, sporting and entertainment venues. Its not everyone's cup of tea but well worth a visit.

 

[PaulC70]

Been through Bradford plenty of times, never had a charge but I guess that's because it's euro6.

Might be better to post more accurate information, ie why you got charged?

 

[tribalbrit]

Just another tax. nothing more. Robbing B*******

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[Winger]

I think I’ll get a set of duff number plates and put some Velcro on them for such occasions

 

[Folkranger]

I would say that in your list it is only Bath and Manchester that are not total dumps and to be avoided at all cost in anycase!!

You're entitled to even a wrong opinion.

 

[tinkertaylor]

I would disagree, London although having some unsavoury sides has stunning architecture, world class museums and galleries as well as many leading theatres. Historic buildings, statues and tourist attractions, sporting and entertainment venues. Its not everyone's cup of tea but well worth a visit.

So are the other places on the don't visit list, the ignorance of some people is unbelievable. I wouldn't mind if they lived in some cultural hotspot but they don't , tbh most live in cultural deserts. Corn beef towns with an average age of 80. Unbelievable, nandos is their limit. Dreaming about the glory days they never had.

 

[Badknee]

Burnham saw the chance to make money, when there was a massive uproar he quickly blamed the government, not my fault they wanted it I didn’t want it from the start, total and utter lying barsteward, now looking for another way of doing it.

If the money grabbing t**t had kept it inside the M60 he just might have got away with it but no, Bolton, Leigh, Rochdale, Todmorden yadda yadda yadda. Nearly the whole of Greater Manchester

 

[gpat]

Best just 'avoid Bradford' full stop. It's horrible.

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