Ulez 'Blade Runners' strike again: Mobile enforcement van is smashed up and left with flat tyres in ongoing war against Sadiq Khan's crackdown on motorists
Daily MailAnti-Ulez 'Blade Runners' have ramped up their campaign of vandalism trashing yet another one of Sadiq Khan's mobile 'spy' vans used to enforce London's Ultra Low Emission Zone. Anti-Ulez campaigners have turned their fire on mobile camera vans trying to enforce the rules, by letting down the tyres and One social media post showed a van being towed away on a recovery truck The camera vans have been deployed as hundreds of static cameras have been reported damaged or missing Meanwhile, terrified road workers have resorted to making crude handmade signs in an apparent bid to not be targeted by Blade Runners. Passerby Chris Thorn spotted a highway maintenance truck parked on double-yellow lines in Biggin Hill in Bromley on Monday morning with a 'NOT ULEZ' sign hastily attached to the vehicle Last week, a set of Dartford traffic lights was completely cut in half in an anti-ULEZ attack The Ulez zone expanded to include all of Greater London at the end of last month Hundreds of Ulez cameras across the capital have been damaged by vigilantes, who have cut wires on the equipment and sprayed the lenses with paint Anti-Ulez campaigners, known as the Blade Runners, claim to have disconnected or destroyed at least 500 of the 2,700 static cameras The situation comes after another so-called 'Blade Runner' was been hailed a 'hero' online after taking a mobile camera van out of action by pretending to breakdown in front of it. The man filmed himself parking his 'broken down' car behind a Ulez enforcement van, raising the vehicle's boot up to obscure the van's camera With the car's boot raised, the mobile van's ANPR camera, which spots rule-breakers, was blocked The man's actions, which have since gone viral online, left a Ulez official visibly frustrated Attempting to free up the camera's line of sight, the Ulez worker and guard close the man's car boot, prompting him to say: 'I'm allowed to do it mate, I'm letting motorists know that the car has broken down, alright?'