Councils Collecting Fines

[Alex]

For entering Yellow Boxes, making illegal turns, travelling in bus lanes, is you council here  ? mine is !
Is YOUR council collecting fines for driving offences? 
 YES:

Derby

Leicester

Nottingham

Herefordshire

Stoke-on-Trent

Bath and North East Somerset

City of Bristol

South Gloucestershire

Peterborough

Luton

Thurrock

Medway

West Berkshire

Reading

Windsor and Maidenhead

Wokingham

Southampton

County Durham

Cheshire West and Chester

Shropshire

Bedford

Central Bedfordshire

Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole

Buckinghamshire

North Northamptonshire

West Northamptonshire

Manchester

Oldham

Rochdale

Salford

Trafford

Wigan

Liverpool

Wirral

Rotherham

Sheffield

Newcastle upon Tyne

Birmingham

Coventry

Walsall

Yes

Bradford

Leeds

City of London

Barking and Dagenham

Barnet

Bexley

Brent

Bromley

Camden

Croydon

Ealing

Enfield

Greenwich

Hackney

Hammersmith and Fulham

Haringey

Harrow

Havering

Hillingdon

Hounslow

Islington

Kensington and Chelsea

Kingston upon Thames

Lambeth

Lewisham

Merton

Newham

Redbridge

Richmond upon Thames

Southwark

Sutton

Tower Hamlets

Waltham Forest

Wandsworth

Westminster

Cambridgeshire

Gloucestershire

Hampshire

Hertfordshire

Kent

Lancashire

Norfolk

Oxfordshire

Surrey

West Sussex





 NO:

Hartlepool

Middlesbrough

Redcar and Cleveland

Stockton-on-Tees

Darlington

Halton

Warrington

Blackburn with Darwen

Blackpool

Kingston upon Hull, City of

East Riding of Yorkshire

North East Lincolnshire

North Lincolnshire

York

Rutland

Telford and Wrekin

North Somerset

Plymouth

Torbay

Swindon

Southend-on-Sea

Bracknell Forest

Slough

Milton Keynes

Brighton and Hove

Portsmouth

Isle of Wight

Cheshire East

Cornwall

Isles of Scilly

Wiltshire

Northumberland

Dorset

Bolton

Bury

Stockport

Tameside

Knowsley

St. Helens

Sefton

Barnsley

Doncaster

North Tyneside

South Tyneside

Sunderland

Dudley

Sandwell

Solihull

Wolverhampton

Calderdale

Kirklees

Wakefield

Gateshead

Cumbria

Derbyshire

Devon

East Sussex

Essex

Leicestershire

Lincolnshire

North Yorkshire

Nottinghamshire

Somerset

Staffordshire

Suffolk

Warwickshire

Worcestershire

 

[Diasi]

Our local district council isn't listed so I don't know but it says Lincolnshire, which is the County Council, isn't collecting fines.

[Alex]

Sorry the list is long it didn't come out the way I copied it !

[GrannyMac]

Yes! Bus and tram gates catch lots out. 

[klondike]

Fines from speed cameras went to central government so my local council stopped maintaining them. They are  still there but they don't issue tickets. 

The police do still operate vans with cameras in which are carefully placed when and where maximum revenue is available rather than where there are potential hazards which should of course be corrected anyway.

There are bus lanes and crosshatch junctions but I don't think that they are enforced.

[Scrumpy]

My mate was just approaching Brighton when an ambulance came up behind her with the lights flashing.. She moved over to let it pass..
She received notice by post that she had entered a bus lane and was fined..

[dextrous63]

My mate was just approaching Brighton when an ambulance came up behind her with the lights flashing.. She moved over to let it pass..
She received notice by post that she had entered a bus lane and was fined..

Oddly enough, this is clearly stated in the Highway Code somewhere.  Or at least I think it is, as we discussed it during my speed awareness course 🤭) a couple of years ago.

[klondike]

speed awareness course

A very badly named course indeed. Should be called a speed camera awareness course.

[JBR]

My mate was just approaching Brighton when an ambulance came up behind her with the lights flashing.. She moved over to let it pass..
She received notice by post that she had entered a bus lane and was fined..

This just goes to show that such rules these days are nothing to do with common sense, but all a matter of collecting money from people by any means possible.

What a country this has become.  I'm so glad that I have lived most of my life over the years when this was a country to be proud of.

[Diasi]

Oddly enough, this is clearly stated in the Highway Code somewhere.  Or at least I think it is, as we discussed it during my speed awareness course 🤭) a couple of years ago.

Indeed it is, it's also an offence to pull in & mount the pavement or move through a red light if the ambulance can't get through until you do.

The only time you can contravene traffic regulations is when an ambulance has a police escort & the police tell you to move through a red light etc.

[Alex]

Indeed it is, it's also an offence to pull in & mount the pavement or move through a red light if the ambulance can't get through until you do.

The only time you can contravene traffic regulations is when an ambulance has a police escort & the police tell you to move through a red light etc.

I didn't know that !  I've inched thru a red light to make space for an ambulance.

[klondike]

The only time you'd get caught is by council money gthering cameras. Look on it as extra rates.

[dextrous63]

I recall a story a few years ago where a doctor pulled over to attend to a motorcyclist who had come off his bike and clearly needed help while waiting for the ambulance.  The doctor was given a ticket for parking on a double yellow line, even though the twat of a parking enforcement officer who issued it could see what was going on a few feet away. 

[Michael Rolls]

jobsworths!

[JBR]

I recall a story a few years ago where a doctor pulled over to attend to a motorcyclist who had come off his bike and clearly needed help while waiting for the ambulance.  The doctor was given a ticket for parking on a double yellow line, even though the twat of a parking enforcement officer who issued it could see what was going on a few feet away.

I think the best thing people in that situation should do is pay the fine and head straight for the nearest newspaper, or even TV company.

Publicise and let them be damned.