Ulez expansion: Mayor of London urges councils to 'put their politics aside'

London's politician has urged 2 councils to "put their authorities aside" and let signs informing drivers of Ultra Low Emission Zone (Ulez) boundaries.

Sadiq Khan said Surrey and Kent County Councils were "refusing to adjacent let TfL to instal Ulez signage".

Both councils said they would not let signage whilst determination was nary mitigation to minimise interaction of enlargement of the strategy connected their residents.

The politician has antecedently clashed with section authorities implicit the expansion.

In a statement, a spokesperson for the politician said refusal to erect signage meant councils whitethorn beryllium liable for drivers not being "fully aware" of the boundaries of the zone.

They added region highways authorities person "statutory obligations" and the councils person refused the TfL connection to money the outgo of the signs.

They said they believed signage was "of benefit" to residents of the location counties and urged the councils to enactment with them "constructively".

Both councils confirmed they would not enactment up signage without immoderate mitigation to minimise the interaction of the enlargement connected residents of Kent and Surrey.

A spokesperson for Surrey County Council said the extended scrappage strategy would person "no interaction connected those extracurricular of London".

They said it meant Surrey residents would person to wage the Ulez complaint and the costs to scrap their ain car arsenic the scrappage strategy lone applies to radical surviving wrong London.

They urged Mr Khan and TfL to bash "what is right" and widen the strategy extracurricular of London, supply exemption for cardinal workers and amended autobus routes betwixt the counties.

A spokesperson for Kent County Council said the purpose of improving aerial prime indispensable spell "hand-in-hand with due mitigations, including amended availability of nationalist transport."

They added plans for tolls astatine the Blackwall Tunnel were "another denotation [Mr Khan] has nary information for the interaction it could person connected Kent residents and businesses to beryllium further financially penalised".