Man filmed flattening ULEZ digicam as outrage at mayor’s hated low emissions scheme grows

A person has been filmed flattening a Ulez digicam at a set of visitors lights as outrage over the London Mayor’s controversial scheme grows. 

A close-by onlooker filmed the person calmly unscrewing the ANPR digicam whereas standing on a yellow ladder as busy visitors passes by. 

Sadiq Khan‘s low emissions scheme will drive Londoners to pay £12.50-a-day to drive in Better London from August 29 if their automobiles do not meet sure environmental requirements.

Earlier this week it was revealed {that a} key Transport for London claim that nine in ten drivers will be unaffected by a ULEZ expansion was ‘unsubstantiated’ and based on ‘unclear’ data, the Excessive Court docket heard.

It got here after 5 Tory councils – consisting of Bexley, Bromley, Harrow, Hillingdon and Surrey County Council – challenged the Mayor’s plan.

The footage reveals the person calmly dismantling the ANPR digicam that catch out drivers utilizing high-polluting autos throughout the capital

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has claimed that the police take vandalism of Ulez cameras ‘very significantly’

The footage in query has change into an more and more widespread sight in London as scores of individuals have been pictured taking down the ANPR cameras.

Khan has himself claimed that the police take vandalism of Ulez cameras ‘very significantly’.

Transport for London (TfL) additionally stated vandalism was ‘unacceptable’ and ‘all incidents are reported to the police for investigation’.

In April it was revealed {that a} secret activist army – dubbed the ‘Blade Runners’ – were vandalising and stealing the hated Ulez cameras. 

One of many ‘Blade Runners’ spoke to MailOnline and defined there have been greater than 100 runners in his group and that quantity was ‘rising’, with folks protecting totally different areas throughout London.

He stated they primarily focused the Ulez growth space but additionally attacked the prevailing system too.

When he removes one of many Ulez cameras, he added that he will get ‘a sense of function’.

Nevertheless, when MailOnline approached the Met Police concerning this, the drive stated it had by no means heard of it taking place earlier than and there was ‘no hint’ they’d ever investigated Ulez cameras being broken or stolen.

A Met Police spokesman added: ‘Clearly there’s potential for the potential offences to be investigated as, as an illustration, prison injury or theft.’

The person in query makes use of a yellow ladder to unscrew the digicam whereas visitors whizzes previous

This footage has change into all of the extra widespread in latest months as resentment over the Ulez plans develop 

Meaning if the Met ever did examine one of many incidents and a Blade Runner was discovered responsible of prison injury, they might land themselves in jail for as much as 4 years.

The Ulez scheme has been splitting communities in two and costing struggling households hundreds of kilos.

Laborious-up Londoners have advised MailOnline they’ve already needed to shell out large sums to purchase new automobiles that adjust to the money-spinning Extremely Low Emission Zone, they usually concern they’re being priced out of the capital.

In some areas of the town, the Ulez will drive mother and father who cannot afford to purchase new motors to pay the £12.50 cost to drive their kids to high school. Whereas pensioners concern being left stranded and unable to see their GP situated contained in the penalty zone.

Neighbours dwelling simply yards aside on reverse sides of the clear air zone face starkly totally different fates, with some saying they are going to be slapped with a cost for merely leaving their properties, whereas these dwelling a stone’s throw away are unaffected.

Small companies have additionally slammed the Ulez growth and even charities have stated they is likely to be pressured off the roads due to it.

It’s the newest visitors plan to plague the capital after years of low-traffic neighbourhoods and an onslaught of hardly-used cycle lanes have laid siege to motorists.

Activists stage a protest in opposition to London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s determination to increase the Extremely Low Emission Zone (ULEZ)

Laborious-up Londoners have advised MailOnline they’ve already needed to shell out large sums to purchase new automobiles that adjust to the money-spinning Extremely Low Emission Zone [File image]