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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
James Tapper

The anti-Ulez vote helped Tories win in Uxbridge but has pro-car agenda run out of road?

A car drives past a Ulez camera on a post that is damaged and lying on the grass with a Smoky Boys Bar and Grill across the street
A damaged Ulez camera in Uxbridge on 14 June. Photograph: Andy Hall/the Observer

Six weeks may be a long time in politics, but for pedestrians trying to cross the dual carriageway to get to the shops and library on Yiewsley High Street, it feels even longer.

The traffic lights here haven’t been working since 3 May, when they were vandalised by anti-Ulez protesters. It’s a side-effect of the self-styled blade runners’ attacks on the cameras on top of the traffic lights put there to monitor cars as they come in and out of London’s ultra-low ­emission zone in Uxbridge.

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