Westminster city council has already introduced £80 fines for drivers caught with idling engines.
Raising fines for drivers and raising insurance premiums for garages, which will lead to higher lease rates for drivers, will both increase drivers' need to hustle and the risk of accidents.
A French law introduced last July that made it a legal requirement for drivers to carry a single-use breathalyser, was supposed to bring in on-the-spot fines for drivers caught without one from 1 March 2013, but this has been delayed.
Among the proposed new fines for drivers: $100 each for speeding in school zones and near a recreation or senior center; failing to slow down and get out of the way for an ambulance, fire engine or police car responding to an incident; and failing to yield to a bus reentering traffic.
Indeed, charging the car's battery pack at home, or topping up at the office or shopping mall, will work fine for most drivers.
Tensions reached a peak in December, when an amendment raised the maximum fine for Uber drivers caught by authorities to T$25 million ($780,000) from an earlier range of NT$50,000-NT$50,000-NT$150,000 $1,600-$1,600-$4,800
We start with a fine for texting drivers in Glendale.
It is unclear whether Uber will cover any fines incurred for drivers breaking the injunction, or whether the drivers themselves will be left to pay any penalties out of their own pocket.
The fine for a driver who fails to yield to a pedestrian while turning right on red would be $100 rather than $50; and the fine for parking in a bike lane would increase to $150 from $65. Swinging open a parked car's door into the path of a cyclist would incur a $50 fine instead of $25.
But this week, the city's efforts gained some momentum when the City Council unanimously passed legislation that would increase fines for taxi drivers who refuse to take passengers to any requested destination in the five boroughs.
