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Old October 27th 06, 11:35 AM posted to uk.transport.london,uk.rec.driving
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Default Lordship Lane N17 (and N22) - £3M in fines in one year!

According to the free London papers, Haringey council picked up over
£3 million in fines from parking offences, bus-lane offences and
box-junction offences in Lordship Lane alone in the period of
2004-2005. It does not give a breakdown of parking offences, bus-lane
offences and box-junction offences. Lordship Lane forms part of the
A109, running between Wood Green at the High Road (A105) to Tottenham
High Road (A1010) crossing the A1080 and the A10.

1. Parking. Now from what I know of this road, there is a CPZ in Wood
Green and this covers the roads coming off Lordship Lane up to a point
but then they end pretty soon after. Where they apply, they do so on
Sundays as well and sometimes as late as 10pm. I don't recall what, if
any, the parking restrictions are like on Lordship Lane itself and how
come they may have picked up so much from this road.

2. Bus-lane and Box Junction. My guess is that this is the A1080
Boreham Road / Westbury Road / The Roundway junction (and also B155
Downhills Road).

Traffic heading Eastbound along Lordship Lane has to negotiate two
traffic lights here, the first being the junction of Boerham Road, a
one way street heading generally North East with right-turn exit only.
There is a box junction at this section, and traffic tends to fill in
all the available space (before getting held up by the traffic light
ahead) thus traffic coming from the West (Lordship Lane) often has
nowhere to go during the green signal phase. There is a bus-lane on
Lordship Lane - not sure what its hours are.

I am not familiar with Lordship Lane east of the A10. I do know there
is a school there.