Isn't £120 fine for stopping in a bus stop for 2 minutes a bit excessive?

Rabid Dog Pie

Ha! Absolutely not! you'll think twice before you do that again won't you?

I don't believe it!

I don't drive but I know the fine for parking/using bus lanes and stops is Â£120, you should know you're not meant to stop at a bus stop anyway, whether there is a bus there or not!

Razzle

no its the law....now pay up...lol

just be grateful u didnt get caught on the phone...Â£1000 fine for that and points!

demonmish

no serves you right.

as a public transport user nothing is more annoying than people parking in bus stop lanes, it causes delays and makes it more dangerous for people to get on the bus

The Intergalactic Sprout

There you go if you break the rules you pay the penalty, we can't have a society where you can pick and choise which rules you want to obey. Why have your phone when your driving anyway it is a distraction and could cause you to divert your attention and possibly an accident, in truth phones should switch off in cars I think...

dlil

Amount of time you were there doesn't matter. This is against the law and the fine a deterent to you doing it again.

Sean F

You cannot park or stop in bus stop area boxes for any reason in the areas controlled by Transport for London. This is a law. I have no sympathy. If you stop in a loading area for more than twenty minutes then yes I can see your anger but as I have been victim to the new law whereby a ticket has been issued in the seventeenth or eighteenth minute and has been maintained then one can argue the case once it gets to court. Do not park on bus stops is my advice.

kevin n

Clearly the law was needed due to the fact that buses were unable to access their stops due to illegally parked vehicles. How is the CCTV expected to know that you're just stopping to make a phone call? Why is that excusable? What if motorists regularly utilized bus stops to make their calls? I'd bet there is a bus driver out there who would like the fine to be higher!

bud

You should know you shouldn`t stop there, a Â£120 fine will stop you doing it again, no phone call is that important

drewy monster

your not a bus are you ??

come on the law in this country is very fair,, i mean all the rapists are getting away with it, the murders are free too..

traffic offences are very dangerous and need all the police force to deal with them.. its hard being a copper

dressing

If you boke the law face the consequences.
If a bus came along - How long would it have taken you to move than you would have caused a traffic jam.
You broke the law pay the fine.
If I could I would make you pay the fine and go back to driving school for courses and you would pay for the courses.
Rember a license is a privilege.
You should know right from wrong.

Mackadoo

pay up and shut up!

Bob J

Not if you're not a bus.

Was it the Queen calling? A surgeon with news on a serious matter of life or death?

Then returning the call could've waited.

Simple as that.

Mr Abba

Excessive for some but its the law. I dont agree with some of the laws in this country but its the same law for everyone.

TyranusXX

Yes these type of fines are just another form of tax collections!

Man and I thought NYC was bad with $100 parking tickets!!

John W

although i agree that you shouldn't have stopped there, but it's a lot of money to be fined!!

Its just another stealth tax on the motorist!!!!!!

bobonumpty

yes ....agree ........think the people who do this need to get a life and get hit with life as is but they when caught say hi yes I work for the cr******** you do(the make more money for gov. brigade ) and get of with it ..not fair world we live in ..you do what you do is right thing ....but you should have been more observant and not parked in bus lane sorry ..that was asking for it ..oops ..

Bear

yes, I have to agree with you.

mad keith

just an easy nick and money in the bank

Bob

Of course it's a tax by stealth by the scum who run this country. My guess is if a nuclear bomb exploded in London and moved your car a few streets away some half-dead parking attendant would still slap a ticket on it and you can be sure that some of the answerers here (who are still alive anyway) would still claim that the law is the law and you were technically parked where you shouldn't be, so pay up. It's a bizarre mindset to you and me, but to the bureaucratic mind it's completely logical.

You can bet that most of the answers here who are unsympathetic to you will be from those who consider themselves Christian.

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