Hundreds of millions in Ulez fines are going unpaid as drivers revolt over the controversial charge, casting doubt over its expansion. The Telegraph has the story.
Penalty charge notices relating Sadiq Khan’s Ultra-Low Emissions Zone (ULEZ) worth £255m were outstanding at the end of last year, the Telegraph can reveal.
The Mayor of London’s flagship Net Zero scheme was owed more money from drivers in unpaid fines than it made during the financial year from 2022 to 2023, figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act showed.
It comes as the Mayor is accused of using an “unintelligible” and “contradictory” consultation to expand the Ulez to all London boroughs next month by lawyers representing a coalition of five Conservative-run councils that is seeking to block the move at the High Court.
Motorists did not pay PCNs worth £255,545,388 in the last financial year and £120,123,660 between 2021 and 2022, in what has been described as a “revolt” against the controversial scheme.
The figures show the total value of outstanding PCNs last year surpassed the scheme’s 2022 revenues worth £224,633,003, of which £73.3m was paid through penalties, according to figures from Transport for London (TfL). …
The planned Ulez extension, which is set to cover all London boroughs from August 29th, will impact neighbouring areas and could see traffic in commuter towns increase as drivers park outside London and catch the train to avoid charges.
Last week, Mr. Khan received a public dressing down from Office for Statistics Regulation chairman Robert Chote after he failed to provide data to support a claim that nine out of 10 cars driving in outer London met Ulez standards.
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They’re getting angry, very angry!
It is a good sign if you are taking flak. Mr Internet says USA today is owned by Gannet, which is owned by New Media Investment, which is owned by Wes Edens’ New Fortress Investment Group. The owner of the Milwaukee Bucks and a major donor to the Democratic National Convention. So.
Marvellous.
Excellent publicity. Keep it up DS.
The USA Today article never brings itself to mention the DS by name, instead referring to it repeatedly as “a blog”
Then at the end it goes on to provide a long list of sources that supposedly back up their so called fact check.
Their implication is clear. A random “blogger” says A and all these “scientists” say B. Who are you going to believe.
And that is basically their entire “fact check”. There is no engagement with the arguments or the facts. There is no actual fact checking.
And that sums up the state of the world. What you hear very loudly and often is the “truth” and what you hear faintly and occasionally is “fake news” and “misinformation”.
These people know what they are doing. They know they have to bludgeon the actual truth to death before it spreads and gets out of control.
The online harms bill will help with that.
Many thanks for yet another excellent article that is clear and well sourced scientifically but also accessible to the intelligent layperson.
No wonder they don’t like what you’re doing!
I agree, the author is always excellent value for us who like stats but one has to ask why these charlatans continue to argue the facts. Is it cognitive dissonance or is it that there is one helluva lot of monies to gained in the pseudo climate change business? Take your pick!
If it is the first, then we have a very long way to go, if it is the second , then we may gradually win out.
Over the target and therefore a danger.
I’d be very careful if I worked at ‘USA Today’. I’ve heard they had to take down 23 articles of ‘fake news’ from their website the other day. I don’t think they are in a position to ‘Fact Check’ anyone.
Here: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/top-fact-checker-usa-today-forced-delete-articles-over-fabricated-sources
Hi Chris,
Appreciate you articles on this topic. Very informative.
I would very much like to understand, mathematically how climate temperatures are collated in order to see any changes upwards or down.
Every temperature measurement location will experience daily changes of temperature from night to day and also across the seasons. How is this translated into a single measurement and how is it justified that specific trend either up or down is there from these variations. Ie I got up today and the sun was making the back garden hot, is this temperature demonstrating a rise or a fall from previous measurements?
Additionally, if we start adding measurement locations, how can these be integerated without adding weighting bias.
Sorry for the semi technical question but the whole measurement process seems a bit vague.
I think if this is better understood people would see that is just another modelling fiasco.
Thanks Julian
Gannett, which owns USA Today, just merged with another newspaper chain. All of these papers I think are in their death throes.
The Montgomery Advertiser – 50 minutes from my town – is a Gannett paper. A typical issue used to be 48 pages. It’s now maybe 18 pages. Half the people in my town used to subscribe to the paper. Today, I know nobody that does. They do not throw newspapers in driveways anymore. There used to be a newspaper rack at every convenience store in town. Today, I think there is one or two racks in my town.
And the size of the pages have shrunk dramatically. There is hardly any “news” in a Gannett newspaper. A paper that used to have 30 full-time reporters might have five now.
There are hardly any advertisements in the paper. I really don’t know how they all stay open. Someone must be subsiding them.
Good work Mr. Morrison, it shows that they are afraid of you and that you have them on the run.