European Drivers Launch Legal Fight Against London Ulez Fines
Sadiq Khan’s Transport for London may have to pay back millions of pounds in Ulez fines after a legal challenge by European drivers. The Standard has more.
Lawyers for Dutch lorry drivers have launched a legal challenge against Transport for London (TfL) in the High Court.
They claim up to £6.5 million worth of penalties were issued unlawfully, with drivers reportedly reduced “to tears” and “forced to sell their trucks” because of the charges.
Transport in Nood BV, which is employed by Dutch travel companies to manage and pay fines, say it resorted to legal action after its clients received more than 10,000 fines from TfL through its debt collection agency, the Euro Parking Collection (EPC).
They enlisted British law firm Smith, Bowyer and Clarke, which claims that, in many cases, multiple fines were sent at the same time.
Lawyers will argue that if the fines were received as and when they happened, drivers would have been able to change their behaviour and avoid being penalised further.
It is also claimed the EPC is using an excessively high exchange rate to send the fines in euros, when they should be charged in pounds, according to the Telegraph.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: As Ross Clark points out in the Telegraph, it isn’t Brexit that’s deterring Europeans from coming to London, but the arch-Remainer Sadiq Khan.
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There is the War on Drugs, The War on Crime, The War on Terrorism etc etc etc. But there is ofcourse the War on Cars. Most western governments want you out of your car and onto a bicycle, a bus or train, or better still if you walk. The environment once again is what gets hijacked in order to achieve this goal. They want the 15 minute cities. ——The private car is by far the best way to travel, but as the developing world start to gain prosperity by using the finite resource of fossil fuels in the ground and start to get private cars the elites realise that those resources cannot supply everyone with a car. ——So they have to go.—– I would love to be a fly on the wall when Sadiq Khan sits with all those other Mayors of the world’s cities discussing how to impoverish us all. ——-All for our own good ofcourse and for “the children and grandchildren”
No. No. Mr Khan isn’t anti-car. He’s said so – so it must be true!
He is very much pro-car – his own car.
Khant believes he is part of the global elite. He will be receiving a rude awakening.
So 4 people disagree with me there is a war on the car? ——-How totally bizarre.—-Maybe they should have a read of the link you put in your comment down the page.
Thanks varmint. Of course there is a war on private transport.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/decoding-un-sustainable-development-goals-indoctrinating-children-new-fake-sustainable-world-order/5843937
“Decoding the UN Sustainable Development Goals: Indoctrinating Your Children Into the New “Fake Sustainable” World Order”
This is an extremely detailed article and properly breaks down the ‘sustainable development goals’ with a helpful de-coding of what they really mean.
Warning ⚠️ – long read.
Isn’t it interesting that they love trains? I looked up the price and time for my wife and I to travel by train from Bristol to London next week. The cheapest for us, return, was about £250 total. Each way was at least 1.5 hours. If I drive, even with all the charges, fuel etc. It will cost under £70, but thake about 2.5 hours. Except that I will not be able to park my car for less than £10 per hour, anywhere near Central London. I could park at the edge of the tube coverage but then this takes many more hours and parking is still difficult. Probably 50% of passengers on trains and tubes have to stand much of the time, which is ridiculous. When I was young (a fair few years ago) we had the new 125 trains from Bristol to London, which took 59 minutes non-stop, and cost in todays money about £60 return. No need to book, just arrive at the Station, buy a ticket and you were off, every hour. If you went at the “wrong” time there might be no seat, but this was unusual. The line has now been (largely) electrified at… Read more »