HJ in today's DT for a bus lane infringement

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Sat 26 Feb 2011 19:35
HJ in today's DT for a bus lane infringement - daveyjp

Advice was there was nothing the driver could do about a penalty ticket for entering a bus lane briefly whilst performing a U turn and was more of a mini rant about the state of the UK and penalty tickets.

The advice should have been that there is plenty you can do, but you need lots of time and patience (2-6 months) to fight a Council ticket and you need to balance this against the cost of a ticket.

I would fight any Council ticket as most tickets contain errors and plenty of Councils don't know the law once pushed to defend their position.

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Sun 27 Feb 2011 17:16
HJ in today's DT for a bus lane infringement - P3t3r

I haven't read it, but using a bus lane is illegal, it's even in the Highway code. Why would anybody think it is ok to use it? If the person doesn't know the highway code then they should either learn it or stop complaining.

I get annoyed by the number of people who use bus lanes and hard shoulders when they want to make a turn and traffic is heavy.

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