Drove in a bus lane for a few seconds to turn into a road

Savas456 · 19 July 2018 at 3:49PM

Hello all

Hope this is the right place to post this as it's a PCN 'fine' from the council for basically driving onto a bus lane for a few seconds to turn into a road.

What really grinds my gears is I tried to do the right thing as when I turned the corner and saw the sign that I would be going into a bus lane, I would have ended up blocking the incoming buses behind me, and thus making the buses wait much longer if I stayed in my position and merged into the traffic lane when I was stationed due to traffic.

I (presumably) informally appealed this via Camden's website. Explainaing that, look I only wanted to turn right, I was outside the bus lane originally, but blocking the entrance of it as I came around the corner. It seemed like common sense I just go foward, turn right and everybody is getting on with their day, instead this was rejected.

Now I'm wondering what do I need to do? Am I wrong here?

I should mention that they said they will respond within 10 days, and without counting weekends, they went over that.

Their website also isn't able to allow me to see the video footage, because you must have IE 8 or later, yet all the browsers I've tried (latest versions), Edge, Firefox and Chrome do not work. Oh and I tried IE 11 (the one installed on my Windows 10 OS) and that doesn't even work, so that "or later" part is false. So essentially they aren't sharing the video footage either.

So I'm being fined £65 for using common sense, trying to do the right thing and essentially driving onto the bus lane for a few seconds. What I should have done is blocked the lane outside it, then stayed in traffic for 5 minutes or so and then turned. Sounds right to you?