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Rules of the road absurdity
• MAY I draw your attention to the continuing absurdity of our parking and driving regulations.
I have fallen foul of a bizarre time rule and traffic camera that certainly appear to be nothing more than revenue generation and yet I see from the New Journal last week the Mayor of Camden is able to park wherever she chooses (‘I don’t know whose car it is – it shouldn’t be parked there’ mayor gets done! April 17).
My “crime” was driving past a sign in Grafton Street saying no vehicles between 3pm and 7pm at 10 minutes past three.
I cannot even remember the incident, which carries a £60 fine. Surely when you do something wrong it usually sticks in the memory?
Anyway a letter arrived with camera pictures displaying my car going past the sign clearly enough but on a completely empty street.
My “crime” endangered no one or caused any traffic chaos. Compared with the mayor, who is legitimately allowed to obstruct traffic by parking on double yellow lines, it is, of course, laughable.
I’ve thought about contesting the camera images because my memory of the day’s events put me on Grafton Street somewhat before 3pm but who am I to question the “all seeing, all knowing eye” of traffic enforcement – sorry revenue generating – cameras?
Jeremy Codd
NW5
• THE reported remarks of Camden mayor Councillor Dawn Somper after she was accused of parking her official car illegally (‘I don’t know whose car it is – it shouldn’t be parked there’ mayor gets done! April 17) that she had “a permit to park anywhere and at any time” is typical of Tory thinking.
Confound the ambulances and other emergency vehicles that might need immediate access, “I am the mayor and damn everybody else!
Peter Richards
Highgate Road, NW5
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