Londoners fume that 'taxpayers deserve to know the full cost of Ulez' as TfL refuses to say how much they spend replacing vandalised cameras used by the hated scheme

The mounting cost of Ulez to taxpayers remains under wraps as Transport for London refuse to reveal how much they are having to spend replacing destroyed equipment used to implement the hated scheme. The decision has sparked a major backlash Cameras and vans have become the target of activists as they are sprayed with paint or even toppled in an effort to halt the tax on drivers The government agency say revealing how much they have had to spend replacing them could encourage vandalism. Pictured: A Ulez camera toppled in Hornchurch, East London It comes as anti-Ulez 'blade runners' have said they will ramp up their action of wrecking cameras which use automatic number plate recognition to implement the charges. Pictured: A damaged camera in Harefield, north-west London Twickenham Liberal Democrat councillor James Chard - who has backed the extension - says the public need to see how much destroying the cameras is costing them 'I don't think that that would necessarily encourage it.