Tories Blast Khan’s ULEZ for Driving Debt as 1,400 Cars Seized in a Year
TfL have seized more than 1,400 cars in the last 12 months from those who dare to defy Khan’s crippling £12.50-a-day ULEZ toll. Khan has been revving up the so-called success of the scheme, despite its first report admitting it’s impossible to gauge its true effectiveness—and even then, the numbers were nothing short of a car crash. Now the scheme is choking the poorest the hardest, with TfL exhaustively raking in over £25 million through relentless bailiff action…
Those unwilling—or unable—to pay the extortionate fines are being left in the dust, with their cars clamped, towed away, and sold off. In the last year alone, nearly 800 of those cars were sold, rolling in £710,000 cash for TfL. Still, unpaid ULEZ fines continue to fuel TfL debt. Neil Garratt, City Hall Conservatives Leader slammed the scheme:
“Last month I forced Khan to reveal that TfL now has £376 million in unpaid ULEZ fines – shockingly that’s 83% of TfL’s total bad debt. Today we find out that they’ve recouped just 6% of it. We constantly hear from Sadiq that TfL desperately needs more taxpayer money to make the numbers add up – perhaps if he wasn’t building up so much bad debt and building his budget on fantasy economics he wouldn’t be in this situation.”
Khan’s London continues to go up in smoke…
