Keep historic vehicles on the road

Exempt registered historic and classic vehicles from blanket low-emission zone restrictions.

2103 signatures of a 15000-signature goal.

Low-emission zones are a legitimate tool for reducing urban pollution from high-mileage daily drivers. They are not a legitimate tool for eliminating a weekend trip to a concours in a 1967 Jensen Interceptor.

Cities across the UK, Europe, and increasingly North America are drawing their exemption boundaries in ways that catch historic vehicles in the net. These cars contribute a fraction of total vehicle emissions — they travel fewer miles, run on better-maintained engines, and exist in numbers too small to register on any credible air-quality model.

The heritage sector employs tens of thousands directly, supports an ecosystem of specialists, restorers, and parts suppliers, and generates tourism revenue that municipal governments are quietly happy to claim. Blanket restrictions that catch historic vehicles alongside modern high-emitters are lazy policymaking that destroys a documented asset without measurable benefit.

This campaign asks every relevant authority to implement or extend historic vehicle exemptions, defined by a rolling 30-year rule with a current registration requirement.