PCN Breach of Bus Lane

[herewego]

cmaguire said:

herewego said:

We don't know where the OP is. If he's in Manchester then £30 is exactly what the charge is according to this site:
http://www.manchester.gov.uk/info/100011/roads_par...

Also we don't know the situation for the OPs wife until she appeals the charge and gets more information.

Even if he is in Manchester it isn't £30 though is it?
It's £30/60/90. That 'pay now or else' crap is unethical state sponsored bullying.
Move him to London and he gets screwed even worse.

I think you're in danger of losing the plot. You can appeal and still not pay more than £30 which is what you want people to pay. This is what the website states:

if your appeal is rejected, we allow 14 days from the date of our response to pay the reduced charge of £30.00.

[cmaguire]

herewego said:

I think you're in danger of losing the plot. You can appeal and still not pay more than £30 which is what you want people to pay. This is what the website states:

if your appeal is rejected, we allow 14 days from the date of our response to pay the reduced charge of £30.00.

I don't have the paperwork to check now, but I've been appealing a nonsense PCN from Redbridge council on behalf of an 85 year old OAP (he's never even been to Redbridge). I believe as soon as an appeal was made the reduced penalty was forfeit. As somebody else has already said the default response to the appeal was 'pay up' and it has now gone to the independent adjudicator. A complete waste of time and money but the system is so stacked in the council's favour (us having to prove it wasn't him rather than them having to prove it was) that it's hardly surprising as most people probably just cough up the 'reduced' (I'm choking) charge to avoid the hassle.

[jm doc]

cmaguire said:

herewego said:

I think you're in danger of losing the plot. You can appeal and still not pay more than £30 which is what you want people to pay. This is what the website states:

if your appeal is rejected, we allow 14 days from the date of our response to pay the reduced charge of £30.00.

I don't have the paperwork to check now, but I've been appealing a nonsense PCN from Redbridge council on behalf of an 85 year old OAP (he's never even been to Redbridge). I believe as soon as an appeal was made the reduced penalty was forfeit. As somebody else has already said the default response to the appeal was 'pay up' and it has now gone to the independent adjudicator. A complete waste of time and money but the system is so stacked in the council's favour (us having to prove it wasn't him rather than them having to prove it was) that it's hardly surprising as most people probably just cough up the 'reduced' (I'm choking) charge to avoid the hassle.

It would be interesting to know the number that get rejected on the intial appeal to the council. If it appeared that they were operating a policy of deliberately rejecting these, it does raise the question of whether they are acting illegally or whether it could be construed as malfeasance.

And I suppose comparing the numbers of initial appeals that were rejected to the numbers that were subsequently succesfully appealed would help clarify whether there was a deliberate policy.

[cmaguire]

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/motorist-slapped-with-60...



Makes my point.
This kind of crap is just depressing and those doing it are the ones that need fining.

[anonymous-user]

Jazzer said:

My other half received a notice for breaching a bus lane.

The photo shows her car with nearside wheels on the thick, white dividing line.

Her car did not straddle this line.

What a fking country this has become!
It's time there was an uprising against these petty misdemeanour money making scams.

[surveyor_101]

Jesus if they can do you for a wheel entering the solid white line then that is most of the coffin dodgers round my way, they struggle with lane discipline.