The council newspaper, 'the news', has printed a letter from someone apparently complaining that his colleague has been fined for turning into Bastable Avenue at the Renwick Road end between 6am and 10am when it is banned.
The rising bollards that would prevent this are not working and currently the ban is enforced by CCTV followed up by a penalty charge notice. The writer protests that "nobody knew [the CCTV] was operational", but so what? If you do something wrong, protesting you didn't know you'd get caught is no defence. Neither for that matter is blaming the failure of someone or something to physically prevent you from doing the wrong thing.
To crown it all, the writer points out (he estimates) the council will get an income of £9000 a day from 150 infringements at £60 each. Well why not? If you don't want to pay the fine, don't break the rules.
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