Couple are forced to pay £12.50 ULEZ charge just to turn left out of their ...

Couple are forced to pay £12.50 ULEZ charge just to turn left out of their ...
Couple are forced to pay £12.50 ULEZ charge just to turn left out of their ...

A couple have told of their anger at having to pay a £12.50 ULEZ charge every time they turn left out of their driveway.

George and Vera Dowler's home is unfortunately positioned right on the low emission zone border in Eltham in south east London.

They faced a cash charge any time they drove their older cars past the traffic lights near their home after last's month's expansion of ULEZ in their area.

George and Vera Dowler have been left unhappy wit the ULEZ since its expansion

George and Vera Dowler have been left unhappy wit the ULEZ since its expansion

It has left to George shelling out 'nearly £40,000' on new vehicles while his wife Vera has been forced to park her older vehicle, which does not meet ULEZ standards, at her work's garage around the corner.

The couple have lived in their south east London house for 32 years but now found themselves right on the edge of the ULEZ boundary when rules changed.

While their house is inside the zone, turning left past the cameras and traffic lights and towards the nearby roundabout was enough to see them face a charge.

George said: 'Sadiq Khan has cost me nearly £40,000 in motors.

'I've had to buy a car and pay £7,000 for a new van, which is no better than the one we've got.

'I've got a perfectly good van that can do 5,000 miles a year, yet a van that meets these emissions can do 100,000 miles more.

'Who's polluting the air more, me or him?'

The couple say these cameras on the traffic lights outside their home in Eltham, south east London, pictured, catch out older cars

The couple say these cameras on the traffic lights outside their home in Eltham, south east London, pictured, catch out older cars

Vera, who works in admin, called the situation 'disgusting' and said she now left her older car around the corner.

This means she can escape the cameras perched on top of the traffic lights, which they say catches older vehicles out right outside their home.

George added: 'It's all about money. 

'If people are prepared to still use their old vehicles, the air would be exactly the same, so it's all about money.

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan at the Queen Elizabeth Park in Stratford, east London, after London's pollution charge zone for older vehicles was significantly expanded, affecting tens of thousands of motorists

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan at the Queen Elizabeth Park in Stratford, east London, after London's pollution charge zone for older vehicles was significantly expanded, affecting tens of thousands of motorists

'What is the difference between the air here and the air the other side

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