Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch, and the giant eye in the sky gets a middle finger’d poke;
The BBC previously revealed that more than 300 cameras had been vandalised between April and mid-August.
The actual number of cameras affected is likely to be even higher as one report can represent attacks on multiple cameras.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s Ultra Low Emission Zone expanded across all of the capital’s boroughs on 29 August.
The Metropolitan Police told the BBC: “To date, Met investigations have led to the arrest of two individuals, one charged and bailed for trial to June 2024 and the other [case] discontinued by the CPS.”
It added that the force “continues to monitor anti-Ulez protests, as we do for all potential public order matters, to consider if bespoke policing plans are required”.
MP for Sutton and Cheam and London minister Paul Scully has written to Mr Khan urging him to remove the Ulez camera in front of the Royal Marsden Hospital in Sutton, which has been targeted by vandals.
He told Mr Khan the camera was “serving as a prominent lightning rod towards those who are willing to take the law into their own hands”.
He added that the location of the camera was aimed at intentionally catching motorists “venturing little more than a hundred metres into the boundary to visit loved ones, receive treatment or attend their place of work”.
Outside a hospital. That is greasy.
300 is a good start?
One-quarter so far.
They probably won’t be used as it’s a £3,000 offence if caught I’ve read, but there are fake licence plates [I assume cardboard printouts] reading FCK ULEZ available.
I noticed my small town snuck a bunch of cameras in under the guise of a “downtown business improvement initiative”
Also, sign up to link your home ring cameras to the local police department.
No debate allowed.
In Ontario, the government must provide public notice of the locations of traffic cameras. Deception about their location is not allowed. The cameras are controlled by provincial statute. They can be placed only by providing public warning 90 days in advance that they would be deployed and with signs indicating such. They can only be deployed in areas of less than 70 km/hour.
Thus far, they have been used specifically for school zones in Peel, York, Durham Regions, and Toronto.
Toronto has been putting them in “community safety zones” and dropping the speed down on feeder roads, like bloor dundas and burnhamthorpe
The Ulez cameras are “in-your-face”. Just like the plethora of speed cameras in the UK. The intent is to eventually charge cars by the mile travelled.
Not surprising really. When a law is hated so much that a significant minority or even a majority actively oppose it and will not adhere to its requirements or restrictions, the law becomes useless. Laws only work when most citizens are willing to obey it. Spy on everyone and the result is predictable. The government is getting what it deserved.
I put it to you that, given this as a cherry on top of at least 25 years of active malevolence, it is getting but the tiniest hint of what it truly deserves.
Surely, this is s complete waste of resources. What exactly does a low emissions zone accomplish any way?
It cuts down on speeding.
This is a WEF scissor maneuver. Right now, the cars that are being identified and fined per day are cars older than yearly date X (I am sorry, but I don’t know what that date is and it has nothing to do with speeding). The goal is to punish the drivers so that they will purchase a newer, cleaner vehicle, eventually leading to only EVs being on the roads at all, and then the energy to charge those newer EVs will become too expensive except for the elites, leaving the average, and poorer citizens with no options except public transit, run and controlled by the political elite class. It has nothing to do with saving the planet, but enslavement and control of the private citizen by limiting their freedoms in the name of a non-existent crisis. As each year goes by, the date X will advance by another year until there are no ICE cars allowed anywhere in a metropolitan area and the enslavement will be complete.
It cuts down traffic so that the rich can travel around unhindered by the peasants. It’s like the 407 north of Toronto. The tolls are extortionate, but they have to be. If they weren’t a lot more people would take it because the 401 is gridlocked almost all the time. If more people took it, the rich wouldn’t be able to scream along at 140 unhindered by the poor people.
I raises taxes. Supposedly it saves thousands of childrens’ lives each year by ending pollution. In fact, it is tax and control of the serfs.
5.2 million CCTV cameras currently in use in Britain. 700 million in China. Information for Canada is unavailable, though Toronto is apparently the city with the most. Over a billion in use world wide, India also has loads of them.
If you watch any of the European cop shows on nutt -flickxs, CCTV plays a crucial role in the apprehending of every criminal. So there’s not only the surveillance, but the well organized propaganda machine to convince people they are essential.
Interesting there are no stats on their use in Canader. Hm.
There are statistics of their effect.
https://www.blogto.com/city/2021/08/toronto-speed-enforcement-cameras-causing-drivers-slow-down/
You are talking about speed cameras. This discussion is about emissions regulation cameras.
So speed cameras cause drivers to slow. But what do they achieve? There is one by a local school I go by regularly, occasionally I am 3 klicks over and voila! Another $85 in tax. As to their utility, this one is supposed to prevent kids being run over. I cannot recall ever a kid being run over at this spot, by a speeding driver or any other way. So how many lives has it saved? Zero.
(If it had been placed at a spot where kids were run over regularly before, and now are not, after the camera installation, I would say it had saved lives.)
I think the process used is suspect. But, London is hardly the first to track emissions from motor vehicles. Where I live we have had to have our vehicles tested for approved emissions since 1990 (thats over 30 years ago for those of you keeping score at home). I’m not a fan of the camera process mentioned here. It smells of ulterior motives.
Oh, and btw I pay over $40 for the emissions test annually.
Related
ULEZ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxhJNhKpymY
Pratchett rules apply. It is “wozname’s” England, right down to the way things are run.
Mischief is important.
Ever more so.