Traffic Camera's

nives316

Drove from one side of London to the other a week or two ago and got two £100 fines ... fair enough one I nipped into a bus lane as a car was turning right and the other I was in a box junction queuing for the Blackwall tunnel but no ones perfect and they just stick cameras up everywhere and you can't put a foot wrong... I keep to the speed limit and am generally a good driver but in one journey got penalised for the slightest mistakes...

Hasn’t it got a bit like 1984…

jamescredmond

there's been a lot of complaints about this in the evening standard, along with parking fines. it seems not enough revenue is being generated by congestion zone charges ( which I generally approve of ). blocking a box junction isn't a good idea and you'd probably have to admit this. nevertheless £100 seems a bit stiff. repeat offenders should be fined this sort of money. IT is in place to track behaviour like this.
As for undertaking into a bus lane, did you drive around the right-turning vehicle then back into correct lane or continue in bus lane? If the former you might have grounds for appeal. but don't hold your breath. tfl views the motorist as a form of milch cow. nothing new in that you might say: local and central gov'ment have been at it for years. what marks tfl out is that it takes no prisoners. ever. I don't believe their pr that the aim is to encourage greater use of public transport. not if it means there will be less opportunities to squeeze £200 out of (usually) sensible drivers like yourself. sorry it's happened to you.

CrazyChemist_2

I'm in London but no car needed at the moment (I do have a car but it's being used by my parents who don't live in London) :rotfl:

Are the police involved in this?? Or is it just a TFL thing like the congestion charging? May be another reason for me to leave my 12 month old Golf at home how I miss it. Damn you Ken :mad:

hjb123

£100 does seem rather a stiff penalty for a fine - specially when you have done it twice! Half the amount would be a better penalty though I guess it wouldnt deter people as much.

Are you appealing the charges? Although I guess you are holding your hands up to doing both. I guess what could be said is that you could have waited a minute for the car to turn rather than pop into the bus lane?

Stonk

jamescredmond wrote:

nevertheless £100 seems a bit stiff. repeat offenders should be fined this sort of money.

The OP is a repeat offender - two offences in the space of one day!

CrazyChemist_2

Stonk wrote:

The OP is a repeat offender - two offences in the space of one day!

Therefore he must pay Mr Livingstone £100 :rolleyes:

LondonDiva

I love speed cameras.

I think ther should be more of them, camoflaged everywhere - so people have to watch and think about their speed and road ettiqette at all times.

A colleague at work is in a comma after being run over by a car over the speed limit. When she wakes up, this young 27 year old will, essentially, be a vegetable.

Viva the traffic camera:T

ckerrd

LondonDiva - quite right.

CrazyChemist_2

LondonDiva wrote:

I love speed cameras.

I think ther should be more of them, camoflaged everywhere - so people have to watch and think about their speed and road ettiqette at all times.

A colleague at work is in a comma after being run over by a car over the speed limit. When she wakes up, this young 27 year old will, essentially, be a vegetable.

Viva the traffic camera:T

I think the points given should be increased for blatant speeders. Like 12 for boy racers in their stupid "enhanced" cars. :rolleyes:

zappomatic

The system is fair, if you've been caught out by something underhand, unclear or technically wrong you can get the fine overturned - I once received a fine for driving in a bus lane. It was a Sunday and I was driving in a bus lane only in operation Monday to Friday. Suddenly the bus lane changed to 24 hour operation at a point where if driving at 30mph it was impossible to get out of the lane safely, partly due to a traffic island (set of traffic lights allowing buses to get a head start across a junction) and also because of the absence of any advance warning sign. Also the bus lane sign itself was on the wrong side of the road (one way street). I wrote a letter and took some photos, and after a few weeks received a letter withdrawing the fine.

CrazyChemist_2

zappomatic wrote:

The system is fair, if you've been caught out by something underhand, unclear or technically wrong you can get the fine overturned - I once received a fine for driving in a bus lane. It was a Sunday and I was driving in a bus lane only in operation Monday to Friday. Suddenly the bus lane changed to 24 hour operation at a point where if driving at 30mph it was impossible to get out of the lane safely, partly due to a traffic island (set of traffic lights allowing buses to get a head start across a junction) and also because of the absence of any advance warning sign. Also the bus lane sign itself was on the wrong side of the road (one way street). I wrote a letter and took some photos, and after a few weeks received a letter withdrawing the fine.

Not good enough - you should have been locked up for life... I mean, using a bus lane... what if children had been playing there :rolleyes:

So thoughtless :rolleyes: