Third runway at Heathrow would 'wipe out environmental benefits from Ulez', warns Sadiq Khan

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00:00One of the concerns that we had with the second runway was not just concerns around noise

00:04pollution, not just concerns on whether the runway would lead to the climate change obligations

00:10being breached, apart for a second the costs of tunnelling M25, re-routing the A4, Southern

00:15Rail, Elizabeth Line and the Piccadilly Line.

00:18One of the things Heathrow are trying to do is to take advantage of air quality improvements

00:24in relation to the impact of Runway 3.

00:27It's not fair to do that because they can't benefit from our policies in relation to the

00:32arguments for the third runway.

00:34There are still air pollution hotspots in that part of London, those will only get worse

00:40if there's a new runway at Heathrow.