Bus lane fines :-(

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Re: Bus lane fines :-(

Post by Mike Scib » Thu Jan 10, 2013 7:00 am

robin wrote:£60, kerching.
Is it not £30 if paid within 14 days?
alicrozier wrote:As Robin said, need to be comfortable and confident to push right up to the limit - sometimes you only find the limit by going beyond it...
(that's why I think Mike will do fine, that and his lack of imagination). :roll: :lol:

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Re: Bus lane fines :-(

Post by robin » Thu Jan 10, 2013 9:06 am

Not for my particular fine ... possibly elsewhere that's true ... mine is £60 if paid within 28 days or £90 otherwise.

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Re: Bus lane fines :-(

Post by Dominic » Thu Jan 10, 2013 9:16 am

My girlfriend paid £30 for her bus lane fine.
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Re: Bus lane fines :-(

Post by robin » Thu Jan 10, 2013 11:12 am

Clearly Glasgow has better rates for criminals than Edinburgh :-)
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Post by Dominic » Thu Jan 10, 2013 11:43 am

robin wrote:Clearly Glasgow has better rates for criminals than Edinburgh :-)
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Re: Bus lane fines :-(

Post by robin » Thu Jan 10, 2013 12:17 pm

Perhaps they should do a deal with Crouton or Wowcha ...
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Re: Bus lane fines :-(

Post by robin » Sun Jan 13, 2013 6:49 pm

Meanwhile I re-read the poorly worded "document" I received from the bus lane enforcement and found that as Dom suggested I only owed £30 if paid within 14 days, £60 within 28 and thereafter £90.

If you decide to challenge then you agree to pay £60 if you lose.

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Bus lane fines :-(

Post by Mike Scib » Sun Jan 13, 2013 8:11 pm

robin wrote:as Dom suggested I only owed £30 if paid within 14 days,
My name is Mike ;)

Poorly worded, or did not say it on the first line lol
alicrozier wrote:As Robin said, need to be comfortable and confident to push right up to the limit - sometimes you only find the limit by going beyond it...
(that's why I think Mike will do fine, that and his lack of imagination). :roll: :lol:

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Re: Bus lane fines :-(

Post by robin » Sun Jan 13, 2013 8:28 pm

Mike Scib wrote:
robin wrote:as Dom suggested I only owed £30 if paid within 14 days,
My name is Mike ;)

Poorly worded, or did not say it on the first line lol
Sorry, I remembered Dom saying it, but if you said it first then you were both right and you get a gold star for saying it first :-)

It doesn't say £30 in the first line of my letter, though, if that's what you meant!

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Re: Bus lane fines :-(

Post by tut » Sun Jan 13, 2013 9:23 pm

Frankly you are very fortunate, that due to our lax laws applied to cases like this, you get away with a pathetic £30 fine.

You could have well have been holding up a busload of good citizens on their way to the Unemployment Office recently arrive from the Eastern Bloc, to collect their well earned social benefits.

In the good old days this would have been a hanging offence.

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Re: Bus lane fines :-(

Post by robin » Mon Jan 14, 2013 9:10 am

Tut, these days they use bank transfers to pay the benefits and if they need to go to the office they go in horse and cart ;-)
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Re: Bus lane fines :-(

Post by tut » Mon Jan 14, 2013 11:16 am

I am actually allowed in bus lanes to drop off or pick up with the Blue Badge, but have never had to use it.

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Bus lane fines :-(

Post by flyingscot68 » Mon Jan 14, 2013 9:21 pm

Bus Lanes?
I use them on the bike all the time, never had any problems, no idea if it's legal or not, and to be quite frank I couldn't give a toss if its not ;-)


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Re: Bus lane fines :-(

Post by tut » Tue Jan 15, 2013 11:08 am

The ones in Aberdeen are the old type mini Gatso types which get you from the front, so bikes would be safe. However last month they started fitting 30 new ones which I presume are digital and would work in either direction.

I also read that they are fitted in the back of some buses, so Big Brother is alive and well.

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Re: Bus lane fines :-(

Post by flyingscot68 » Tue Jan 15, 2013 11:34 am

Guess I'll need to fit an even smaller number plate.........

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