Rage against anti-motorist schemes spreads across UK as ULEZ camera cables snipped by ‘Blade Runners’
RAGE at anti-motorist schemes is spreading, with London’s Ulez cameras vandalised and removed, and other cities’ low-traffic neighbourhoods sabotaged.
A group dubbed the Blade Runners claims to have snipped cables to Ulez “spies” in the capital and taken them as trophies.
One vandal boasted of removing 34 and said of Mayor Sadiq Khan’s scheme: “We don’t want this. It restricts our movements.”
Two men have been charged with smashing cameras but the Blade Runners have vowed to continue their campaign.
Elsewhere, the introduction of LTNs has caused upset and been met with protests and damage.
New cameras, bollards and planters, aimed at spying on traffic and redirecting it, have been destroyed and vandalised.
A camera post was sliced in two with the message “No LTN” daubed on a wall in Edinburgh.
Thousands of people protested in Oxford over LTNs in the city and barriers were torched.
The local authority is one of several — mostly Labour — supporting the so-called 15-minute city plan, including Bristol, Birmingham, Canterbury, Ipswich and Sheffield.
More than 40 business owners in Hammersmith and Fulham in West London opposed plans to introduce LTN controls.
The council relented and axed the scheme. Thousands of people marched in protest at a similar scheme in Ealing, West London.