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Supercar Tourists Jam London Streets, Ignore Parking Tickets
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Key Points:
- London's affluent Westminster area faces ongoing issues with supercars from Gulf countries parking illegally and leaving without paying fines, causing significant enforcement challenges.
- Foreign-plated luxury vehicles, including Lamborghinis, Ferraris, and Rolls-Royces, frequently block no-parking zones, taxi ranks, and bus stops near landmarks like Harrods.
- Between 2018 and 2022, Westminster issued over 13,000 tickets to UAE-registered vehicles but collected payments on only about 1%, due to difficulties in obtaining driver information from non-European foreign governments.
- Although London police recently impounded $10 million worth of supercars in one weekend, clamping and towing are rarely used, and unpaid fines from foreign vehicles cost the city millions annually.
- Officials maintain they enforce parking rules equally for all drivers, but the lack of international cooperation hampers effective fine recovery.
