While drivers entering Birmingham’s ‘clean air zone’ have paid out more than £100 million, it seems one group of motorists is exempt from the charge – the council’s own employees.
Since June 2021, they have used the bankrupt city council credit cards 2,500 times to meet the cost of the £8-a-day charge for using an old banger (£50 for HGVs, buses and coaches) in the city centre. This comes in at £388,084.
In October 2021, the council paid £19,766 in clean air zone credit card claims and the figure has been falling ever since, presumably because employees now walk to work to save the planet. However, even this August the city forked out £4,752 on its credit cards in clean air charges on employees’ vehicles.
The credit cards’ travels include £19,293-worth of Uber rides and £4,425 on taxis as well as £10,438 on Eurostar journeys and £4,500 with Virgin Atlantic.
I wonder if staff zapped by the council’s anti-car speed-limit reductions – apparently a ‘road-safety emergency’ and nothing to do with raising money – will get their fines paid by the taxpayer as well.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/motors/36885229/speed-limits-changed-birmingham-city-road-laws/
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