{"id":43403,"date":"2025-10-31T14:02:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T14:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/?p=43403"},"modified":"2026-06-15T14:44:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T13:44:14","slug":"bristol-clean-air-zone-price-could-hit-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/2025\/10\/31\/bristol-clean-air-zone-price-could-hit-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol Clean Air Zone price could hit \u00a314"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1680\" height=\"945\" src=\"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/CAZ.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43404\" style=\"object-fit:cover;width:700px;height:400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/CAZ.jpg 1680w, https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/CAZ-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/CAZ-700x394.jpg 700w, https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/CAZ-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/CAZ-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/CAZ-747x420.jpg 747w, https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/CAZ-640x360.jpg 640w, https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/CAZ-681x383.jpg 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1680px) 100vw, 1680px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Picture: The Joy of All Things \/ Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Drivers could be forced to pay \u00a314 a day to enter Bristol&#8217;s Clean Air Zone (CAZ), a report for councillors has proposed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The CAZ was first introduced in November 2022, following concerns about high levels of air pollution.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the CAZ\u2019s first year of operation (Nov 22 &#8211; Dec 23), it was found that 88% of journeys into the zone were made in \u2018compliant\u2019 vehicles, and were therefore unaffected by the charge.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Smaller reductions in carbon dioxide from 2023 to 2024 have left the council feeling that the CAZ charges are no longer a strong enough deterrent, and cited rising inflation and changes in travel trends as the reason for the proposed cost raise.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Councillors will meet on November 6 to decide whether the hike in prices will go ahead.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drivers could be forced to pay \u00a314 a day to enter Bristol&#8217;s Clean Air Zone (CAZ), a report for councillors has proposed. The CAZ was first introduced in November 2022, following concerns about high levels of air pollution.\u00a0\u00a0 In the CAZ\u2019s first year of operation (Nov 22 &#8211; Dec 23), it was found that 88% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":335,"featured_media":43404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1771],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43403"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43418,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43403\/revisions\/43418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}