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Offline The Bald Eagle

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This is what happens when councils fail to hit ticket targets and don't get the revenue they budgeted for. Courtesy of Mr Mustard. (Note the "whopping" pun  ;D)

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5 October 2020

Tower Hamlets Council act with whopping unreasonableness

Mr Mustard peruses the list of traffic adjudicator decisions most days. He mainly reads Barnet cases but sometimes there is something elsewhere which is worthy of a read. This list of cases for one company was such a thing.



Here we have 12 PCNs with a total payable of £1,560 should Fox finish up with 12 refusals.

The PCNs were all for driving where you shouldn't, through a newish bus gate in Wapping High St.






Mr Mustard's eyes were popping once he read the decision. Here it is, absolutely shocking.



The local authority placed marshalls at the site, waved the bus through and then sent a dozen PCNs by post, for contraventions in which they were complicit.

It is hard to adequately express the monstrous duplicity of Tower Hamlets in this situation, trying to extract £1,560 from a company whose driver did exactly as he was told.

Where is the common sense, this bus was actually acting for the council and why haven't they exempted such transport from the prohibition, as they will have done for their refuse lorries?

Costs are rarely awarded and only for wholly unreasonable, vexatious or frivolous behaviour. Tower Hamlets haven't been frivolous but they ought to be paying costs for the time and trouble to which Fox Transport have been put.

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Offline 2b1ask1

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Hmmm....

Doesn't look much like the proposal does it!

https://lovewapping.org/2019/03/proposal-for-a-wapping-bus-gate-in-the-high-street-have-your-say/

I should expect a letter in the post as I was there last week inspecting a site in the basin!
Willing to do my bit...

 


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