Bus Lane Penalty – Worth an appeal?

“ I know.  Fact is, people are human.  I consider myself to be a half-decent driver (as does everyone, I expect) but I still occasionally go “yep, ****ed that one up, totally my fault” and try to learn from that so as not to do it again”

Yep, 30-50 k miles per year for the last 30 years, clean licence etc.

Plenty of mistakes, Rotherhithe tunnel both ways in a van. That’ll be 2x£60 or whatever.

Buslane at the wrong time, more than once.

Years of reversing a Transit Custom onto my drive whilst folding the mirrors in at the last second, no problem.
Today in a smaller vehicle with miles to spare I hit the gatepost with a mirror.

“Did I mention I used to work in that field? I worked for local authority in traffic management and got to hear the reasons why PCN had been overturned

Presumably that’s just one council though? Is it not down to each individual council to enforce (or not) as they see fit?”

No, I’m referring to the independent arbitration. First appeal is with the local authority and will always fail. It’s not really an appeal unless you take it all the way to independent arbitration.

And the local authority I worked for were the pioneers of finding car drivers to generate revenue for the council to keep.

The ones by the train station have caught a few folk out as the follow their sat nav only to find the road empty and a few moments the click and the swearing starts.

I think I read a few weeks back they were looking to decide if they were going to keep the or not. This I assume will be dependent on how profitable they are