Desperate road workers in London put up 'not ULEZ' signs to stop vigilante attacks
London road workers are going to desperate measures to avoid being targeted as ULEZ engineers.
Fearful road workers in London have started to make hand-written "not ULEZ" signs and attach them to their vehicles to stop themselves from being targeted as ULEZ engineers.
One passerby, Chris Thorn, spotted a highway maintenance truck parked on double-yellow lines in Bromley, London, earlier this week, with the sign attached to his vehicle.
Further down the street, he noted another sign had been cable-tied to safety barriers around repairs to a set of traffic lights.
Mr Thorn commented: "It was 10.10am on the main road in Biggin Hill. There were two guys plus security repairing a severed traffic light. They were getting a lot of horns from passing motorists.
It makes you wonder how enjoyable their job is nowadays if they have to display 'not ULEZ' signs."
MyLondon reported comments about the picture online which included "frightened to be targeted" and "that means, BEYOND DOUBT, that they do not wish to be associated in any way whatsoever with the ULEZ installers".
Mayor Sadiq Khan's plan to expand the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) came into force across all London boroughs on August 29, 2023.
Since then, there have been multiple attacks on ULEZ cameras and infrastructure across the capital. Only last week, a set of Dartford traffic lights were completely cut in half in an anti-ULEZ attack.
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Drivers must pay £12.50 if they enter the ULEZ zone with a non-compliant car. This would amount to around £87.50 per week or £375 per month if locals used their vehicles every day. Fines range from £90 to £180, depending on how long drivers take to pay the fee.
One anti-ULEZ campaigner, Prabhdeep Singh, went on a seven-day hunger strike in opposition to the new daily fees, stressing it would hit people's pockets.
Speaking to Talk TV, he said it was a "tax on poor people" that could see motorists "bankrupt".
Sadiq Khan has publicly defended the policy in an article for the Observer, citing government figures that show air pollution is causing between 28,000 and 36,000 early deaths nationwide every year and about 4,000 of these premature deaths are in London.
Khan wrote: "The Government has long recognised that clean air zones are one of the most effective tools we have for tackling air pollution in London."