{"id":277883,"date":"2023-09-08T18:32:11","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T16:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=277883"},"modified":"2023-09-08T18:32:45","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T16:32:45","slug":"londoners-vs-ulez-cameras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=277883","title":{"rendered":"Londoners Vs. ULEZ\u00a0Cameras"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Science Matters<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Ron Clutz<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Background: <\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Remember that the World Bank recognizes\u00a0personal mobility as the defining characteristic of the Middle Class.<\/strong>\u00a0 Also recall that as Aristotle stated, the\u00a0Middle Class is the social buffer against tryanny<\/strong>\u00a0by the elite and slavery of the poor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Finally, be informed that\u00a0C40 is a global network of mayors<\/strong>\u00a0of the world\u2019s leading cities that are united in\u00a0action to confront the climate crisis<\/strong>. It was founded in 2005 as C20, and has since expanded to its current network of 96 cities, including London.\u00a0 More at Daily Sceptic\u00a0The Green Globalists Behind Ulez \u2013 and What They Have Planned Next \u00a0<\/strong><\/a>(Of course our virtue signalling Montreal Mayor Plante is all in on imposing ULEZ here.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Freedom Fighters Take to the Streets of London<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Within this context comes the report that Londoners are conducting an organized attack on the ULEZ cameras placed to enforce fines for people straying from their home neighborhood. The Remix News article is Hundreds of ULEZ cameras destroyed by vigilante group following wider London roll-out.<\/strong><\/a>  Excerpts in italics with my bolds. H\/T Tyler Durden<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The group intent on disrupting London Mayor Sadiq Khan\u2019s green vehicle tax
has received some political support despite its criminal activity.<\/mark><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hundreds of Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) cameras have been vandalized by a vigilante group that opposes the controversial scheme<\/strong>, which extended across wider London this week and charges road users for traveling in non-compliant vehicles.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The scheme is part of London Mayor Sadiq Khan\u2019s green agenda<\/strong> to enhance the air quality across the U.K. capital; however, many critics of its extension into London\u2019s suburbs consider it to be a regressive tax and cash grab that will hit working families the hardest.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A vigilante group known as the Blade Runners<\/strong> has been targeting newly installed cameras<\/strong> across the capital in a bid to disrupt the implementation of ULEZ as much as possible, and hundreds of cameras have already been hit.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prior to the roll-out, which came into force\u00a0on Tuesday, around 500 cameras had been marked as out of action or damaged<\/strong>, according to a map the vigilante group promoted. Many of the cameras targeted were located in London\u2019s southeast with 156 of the 185 cameras around the districts of Sydenham and Sidcup being hit, as well as 18 of the 22 cameras installed in Bromley.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The camera map, published on a popular anti-ULEZ Facebook page, allows users to update it<\/strong> when a camera has been rendered out of action. The black pins represent cameras that are now missing or damaged.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the southeast town of Orpington, just two of the new number plate recognition cameras were in working order on the day of the ULEZ expansion after vigilantes smashed, spray-painted, or cut the wires of 14 cameras on a single road.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Video footage and photographs of disruptors vandalizing<\/strong> the cameras have been published on social media, much to the delight of those critical of the scheme.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

One camera was even installed just meters from a crematorium in order to
pick up funeral-goers, a camera that was swiftly taken care of by locals.<\/mark><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite their criminal activity, the vigilantes have received political support, including from a former Conservative Party leader and cabinet minister, Sir Iain Duncan Smith, who insisted he was \u201chappy\u201d for Londoners<\/strong> to fight back because \u201cthey are facing an imposition that no one wants and they have been lied to about it.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA lot of people in my constituency have been cementing up the cameras or putting plastic bags<\/strong> over them,\u201d he said. \u201cThe actions you are seeing show how angry people are at what is being imposed on them. Sadiq Khan has gerrymandered all the information \u2013 people have had enough.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last November, Khan announced the extension to the scheme, which had previously been reserved for central London, to all London boroughs despite overwhelming opposition to the plan<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is the latest in a continuous assault by Khan on motorists,<\/strong> following the installation of Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs), extensive road-narrowing, and the excessive expansion of 20-mph zones.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When he was heckled at a public event back in March over the ULEZ roll-out,\u00a0Khan suggested that those who opposed the plans were \u201cfar-right,\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0a remark that was met by derision and booing from the Question Time audience.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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