Ulez camera switched off after 900 drivers wrongly charged

Transport for London (TfL) has been forced to switch off one of its Ulez cameras after more than 900 drivers were wrongly charged.

The body said that it had turned off and relocated the camera in Harrow after the council informed them that it was incorrectly fining drivers who hadn’t entered the Ulez zone.

The camera, placed on the border of the newly expanded Ulez zone in the borough, had been incorrectly positioned and wrongly charged a total of 927 vehicles. All these individuals have since been refunded and the camera has now been repositioned.

It comes a month after Sadiq Khan’s expanded the Ulez zone to all 32 London boroughs. Under the new rules, drivers of vehicles that do not comply with certain emissions standards must pay a £12.50 daily charge or face fines of up to £180.

The expansion has faced widespread opposition throughout the first month of the roll-out, with some anti-Ulez protesters attacking the cameras used to police the zone. Earlier this week, the Metropolitan Police revealed that there had been 285 reported attacks since the end of August, taking the total number of stolen or damaged cameras to 795 since April.

As part of the roll-out, TfL installed dozens of cameras on the boundary of outer London boroughs to catch those with non-compliant cars entering the capital.