![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/im-going-out-of-business-because-of-ulez-and-our-street-is-split-in-hal/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/newspress-collage-23412022-1691597113604.jpg&description=LIVID residents in London's ULEZ borderlands say they are going out of business as the anti-car fee cuts their towns in half. They are victims of a "disgusting" catchment boundary which lurches into Crayford, South East London and Dartford, Kent - snaring roads at random. 11 Mehmet Ahmet runs greasy spoon Happy Day's Cafe in Crayford and says Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan's could destroy him financially Credit: Steve Bell 11 Whitehill road and neighbouring Gable Close (R) have been sucked into ULEZ while its neighbours have not Credit: Steve Bell 11 It has left some facing a £12.50 charge simply for leaving their house as ULEZ plotters plonk cameras at the only entrances to their streets. Mehmet Ahmet, 54, from Welling, Kent, runs greasy spoon Happy Day's Cafe in Crayford and says Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan's plans have destroyed him financially. He told The Sun: "In other countries there would be riots but people just take it here. "I have decided this year might be my last year, it's just getting harder and harder. It's quiet, people aren't coming some days. "People have gone into debt to get a new car, insurance has doubled . My customers aren't happy, they're talking about scrapping their cars . "I've got a T-reg Audi , going to have to get rid of it, or the other option I've got is pay the £12.50 every time I use the car." The Ulez row in the area is complicated by London's border with Kent , which sees Maiden Lane bisected down the centre line. On the Bexley side – inside Greater London's boundaries – residents are eligible to claim as much as £7,000 for a van and £2,000 for a car if they scrap their ULEZ non-compliant vehicle . But residents on the other side, just yards away from the ULEZ expansion zone - coming into force on August 29 - cannot claim anything. Mehmet blasted: "How much car are you going to buy with £2000? They'll do anything to rob the country and the working class." 'MAKES YOU POORER' The measly scrap allowance has left one builder livid, he told Th){kind=link}
LIVID residents in London’s ULEZ borderlands say they are going out of business as the anti-car fee cuts their towns in half.
They are victims of a “disgusting” catchment boundary which lurches into Crayford, South East London and Dartford, Kent – snaring roads at random.
It has left some facing a £12.50 charge simply for leaving their house as ULEZ plotters plonk cameras at the only entrances to their streets.
Mehmet Ahmet, 54, from Welling, Kent, runs greasy spoon Happy Day’s Cafe in Crayford and says Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan’s plans have destroyed him financially.
He told The Sun: “In other countries there would be riots but people just take it here.