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Poltics Sadiq Khan is spending £150m on ‘secret’ technology that will enable introduction of pay-per-mile road charging on motorists struggling to cope with the London Mayor’s hated Ulez charges
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By Katherine Lawton
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Sadiq Khan is spending £150million on ‘secret’ technology that will enable the introduction of pay-per-mile road charging on motorists struggling to cope with the London Mayor’s hated Ulez charges.
The unique intention, titled Mission Detroit, used to be created by Khan’s Transport for London (TfL) in a repeat to introduce a ‘more sophisticated… unique core technology platform for road-person charging’.
A total of 157 staff are now working exclusively on the intention, with some engineers paid more than £100,000 a year, Freedom of Information requests showed.
A staggering £21million has already been spent on the intention, which started in 2021, whereas the predicted closing cost is believed to be between £130 million and £150 million, The Telegraph reported.
The mission is making a single ‘road person charging’ platform for the congestion fee, Extremely Low Emission Zone (Ulez) and Low Emission Zone.
Sadiq Khan (pictured) is spending £150million on ‘secret’ technology that will enable the introduction of pay-per-mile road charging on motorists
The mission is rising a single ‘road person charging’ platform for the congestion fee, Extremely Low Emission Zone (Ulez) and Low Emission Zone (Stock photo)
Protesters adversarial to the expansion of London’s Extremely Low Emissions Zone demonstrate out of doors BBC Broadcasting Apartment on July 22, 2023, in London
It is thought Mission Detroit will be extinct to introduce a fee based mostly on the distance driven in automobiles within London.
One FoI response from TfL read: ‘The Detroit platform has the capability to be prolonged and we will be having a expect to abolish the system flexibly so that other forms of charging based mostly on distance, vehicle kind, and so on will be catered for if a decision used to be made in future to attain so.’
The Conservative London Assembly Member for Bexley and Bromley, Peter Fortune, claimed the mission will likely lead to pay-per-mile charging.
‘Sadiq Khan can speak all of it he wants however it be rather definite he plans to introduce pay-per-mile road-person charges for every motorist if he wins a third period of time,’ he acknowledged.
A TfL spokesperson acknowledged: ‘Any work implemented or staff hired as section of Mission Detroit has been in relation to TfL’s existing road-person charging schemes.
A staggering £21million has already been spent on the intention, which started in 2021
A signal highlighting the boundary of London’s Extremely Low Emissions Zone (ULEZ) (Stock photo)
‘This used to be section of TfL’s wider work to convey in-house the currently outsourced system for which the contract expires in 2026.
‘Pay-per-mile charging has been dominated out by the mayor and no such intention is on the table or being developed.’
Ministers told the Commons in July last year that the Labour mayor used to be planning to hit drivers with a pay-per-mile or pay-per-minute regime to use the capital’s roads.
Older automobiles which pollute the environment and motorists the use of roads at height cases will be charged more below the intention, it used to be reported.
It sparked fury among MPs and campaigners, who accused Mr Khan of making an strive to ‘shut London down’.
There had been also fears he might possibly well well additionally strive to impose the initiative on the total Bigger London discipline, echoing his controversial Extremely Low Emission Zone (Ulez) intention.
