ULEZ cameras destroyed amid growing backlash over Sadiq Khan’s zone expansion plans
Newly installed ULEZ cameras are destroyed with their wires cut and their lenses painted black amid growing backlash against Sadiq Khan’s zone expansion plans.
- Four cameras destroyed during ULEZ protests at Abbeywood, Greenwich
- ANPR cameras had cut wires and painted lenses black to block vision
- Amid growing opposition to Sadiq Khan’s plans to expand the ULEZ zone,
Newly installed Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) cameras in the South London It has been destroyed as backlash against the zone’s expansion plans continues to mount.
The four cameras at Abbeywood in Greenwich were shot with pretty wires and blackened lenses. Sadik Khan‘s plans to expand the ULEZ zone grew, and politicians and campaigners urged him to change his mind.
The mayor of London said the planned expansion to cover the entire capital from 29 August aims to reduce the amount of air pollution in London.
The damaged Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) camera is from Transport for London (TfL), and is configured to monitor the ULEZ zone.
This comes after an increase in similar instances in the capital, where an additional 300 ANPR cameras were recently installed. By the official launch date, he expects to have 2,750 more installed.
Destroyed newly installed Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) cameras in South London
Four cameras at Abbeywood in Greenwich were filmed with wires pretty and lenses painted black as the level of opposition to Sadiq Khan’s plans to expand the ULEZ zone increased.
Other images have surfaced online showing the camera being ripped from its perch and thrown to the ground
Photographs emerged of the West Sutton camera with its wires cut and the Cutford camera in Lewisham with the lens painted black to obscure the view. Others also show the camera being ripped from its perch and thrown to the ground.
Despite the rapid installation of cameras in most areas, Bexley, Bromley, Harrow and Hillingdon have yet to be installed.
Currently, ULEZ is limited to areas within the North-South Ring Road. A driver who does not meet the minimum emissions standards will be charged a fee of £12.50 per day for him to enter the zone. Expansion means that this area becomes wider.
Londoners can apply for a means-tested grant of up to £2,000 to scrap cars and motorcycles that are not ULEZ compliant. But the decision to go ahead with expansion amid a cost-of-living crisis is fraught with anger.
it comes after Honslow Council Accused of Hypocrisy After Endorsing Expansion – Then seek exemptions for your own 400 vehicles.
Hounslow City Council deputy leader Catherine Dunne wrote to the Mayor of London last summer expressing her concern that all vehicles could not be ULEZ compliant by the August 2023 deadline. .
City Council is one of 16 London suburbs to back the mayor’s plan to expand the zone, which already has 37 ULEZ cameras installed in its streets.
West Sutton camera pictures with cut wires emerged
Currently, ULEZ is limited to areas within the North-South Ring Road.
The mayor of London said the planned expansion to cover the entire capital from 29 August aims to reduce the amount of air pollution in London.
But Miss Dunn argued that failure to meet compliance rules would put additional pressure on the agency’s budget.
Mr Khan has recently faced harsh criticism for labeling some ULEZ opponents as “extreme right” and “Covid denier”.
During a public question session in Ealing, West London, last week, he said: Anti-vaccine, part Tory.
It also emerged that the Mayor has asked Transport for London to consider using ULEZ cameras to bill car users on a “pay-as-you-go” basis in the capital.
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