Drivers Hit With “Astonishing” £322 Million in Fines After Sadiq Khan’s Ulez Expansion
Drivers have been fined more than £322 million after Sadiq Khan’s controversial Ulez expansion to the whole of Greater London, new figures show. The Telegraph has more.
Nearly 1.8 million penalty charge notices were issued between August 29th last year and the end of June, according to analysis of Transport for London (TfL) statistics.
The value of these at the point of issue was £322.8 million. TfL’s penalty charge notices carry a fine of £180 each, reduced to £90 if paid within 14 days.
The organisation’s figures suggest it received approximately £176 million from drivers who did pay Ulez fees over the same period.
It previously said all money received from the scheme was “reinvested into improving London’s public transport network”, such as expanding bus routes in outer London.
Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, made the low-emission zone almost four times larger, covering all the capital’s boroughs, in August last year.
Mr. Khan said the move, which created the world’s biggest pollution charging zone, was “a difficult decision” but vital to tackle air pollution. …
Steve Gooding, the Director of Motoring Research at the RAC Foundation, said: “These eye-watering numbers beg the question whether the rules and consequences of the ultra-low emission zones are clear enough, particularly to those not routinely driving into London.
“If the objective is compliance to deliver cleaner air, then TfL needs both to focus on whether its messaging is sufficiently clear, and whether the 14 million payments it received for non-compliant vehicles is saying something inconvenient about the economics and practicality of getting more drivers into more modern, more expensive but cleaner vehicles.”
Research published by City Hall in July found that NOx emissions from cars in outer London were 13% below a scenario where Ulez was not expanded.
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You aren’t a passive spectator. I am sure that you are aware that there are people taking radical action against this agenda.
Yup and clap them in….Remember when Boris was made Mayor of London, he said, “Now the paper shredders are panting away. How about getting those Angle Grinders panting away!
Remind me: where is this London of which they speak?
[Recalling distant, fading memories of living~working in a similar but much more civilised place for 30 years]
Ah now we get it. Money. To save Gaia will cost us a lot of money….raise those taxes, impose those fines, maybe lock us down again….
This agenda is flimsy on every level. If you just go along with it then you look like an even flimsier waster. Perhaps at some point self-respect might kick in.
Self-respect is a rare commodity these days. Making swathes of the population hate themselves and their history was key to breaking down this potentially troublesome aspect of the British psyche.
Just. Don’t. Pay. Simple. Currently visiting Blighty for a few days. Sat next to a French national on the plane yesterday morning, lived in UK all her life. Her mum, originally from Gabon, was fined for breaking the quarantine rules upon returning the UK from Perpignan. She didn’t pay the £10K fine. And that was that. It really is that simple. You need to understand the weaknesses of the system in which you exist. “This submissiveness was also due to ignorance of the mechanics of epidemic arrests. By and large, the Organs had no profound reasons for their choice of whom to arrest and whom not to arrest. They merely had over-all assignments, quotas for a specific number of arrests. These quotas might be filled on an orderly basis or wholly arbitrarily. In 1937 a woman came to the reception room of the Novocherkassk NKVD to ask what she should do about the unfed unweaned infant of a neighbor who had been arrested. They said: “Sit down, we’ll find out.” She sat there for two hours-whereupon they took her and tossed her into a cell. They had a total plan which had to be fulfilled in a hurry, and there… Read more »
The regulations are about as clear as mud for those who rarely drive into London. Simple solution! Don’t bother! Other cities are available.