Motorists driving through the Square Mile were fined a record £25 million last year for flouting traffic rules, like going the wrong way up a one-way street.
A ticket a minute was issued at peak times in the City as fines leapt 17-fold on the previous year after a safety crackdown at a notorious interchange by the Bank of England.
It brought the number of penalties issued in the capital, including TfL-run main routes, to 1,439,942 — or 3,945 a day — which is 30 per cent up on 2017. The figure does not include parking tickets.
In total, smart cameras trained on the Square Mile helped issue 192,841 moving traffic tickets last year, increasing from almost 10,939 in 2017.
Restrictions at Bank, which allow only buses and bicycles on weekdays between 7am and 7pm, were brought in following the death of cyclist Ying Tao, 26, who was crushed by a left-turning lorry as she rode to work in 2015.
