DRIVERS nationwide could be hit with a ULEZ and Congestion Charge fee for driving into London today.
While it may be a Bank Holiday, motorists still risk being slapped with an eye-watering charge for venturing into the capital.
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Transport for London’s vehicle checker allows drivers to see if their car satisfies the ULEZ emissions standards threshold.
“Though today is a Bank Holiday, it remains a charging day for Congestion Charge, ULEZ and LEZ,” TFL said on its website.
“Find out if your vehicle meets the emissions standards required to drive in London, or if you need to pay a daily charge.”
Unlike the Congestion Charge where drivers aren’t charged during weekends, the ULEZ operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 364 days a year – excluding Christmas Day and including bank holidays.
Older vehicles, including motorbikes, that don’t meet the tighter emissions criteria are required to pay £12.50 every day they are used within the ULEZ.
The hated scheme has attracted a revolution from councils on the city’s fringes.
A number of the capital’s outer boroughs have erected signs warning locals to upgrade their vehicle if they haven’t done so already.
However, Kent, Surrey and Herts chiefs are digging their heels and refusing to put up signs — insisting they will not support London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s plan, which will expand on August 29.
Sadiq Khan has remained defiant over the expansion to his scheme – despite drivers warning of it causing “devastation”.
The Mayor said: “The best way to clean up air is by clean air zones.
“This was (always) the direction of travel.
“But fo reasons probably only Rishi Sunak and the government can answer, they’re refusing to give any support to London, even though they’re rightly requiring us to clean up our air.”
It comes after furious motorists slapped stickers over ULEZ “spy cameras” to protest the expansion of the levy.
Slogans with “ULEZ spy” as well as insults towards Sadiq Khan from disgruntled drivers were stuck to poles that the devices sit on.
Elsewhere, A British Army veteran has vowed to go on a week-long hunger strike over Sadiq Khan’s unpopular expansion.
Prabhdeep Singh, 40, will drink only water to protest Mr Khan’s move.