For those who moan about signs at Parkway bridge Options

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Have you seen the Reading Chronicle?



Bus lane fines total £2.5m as drivers call for better signage
http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/139...better_signage/

How are drivers meant to be able to read, assimilate and act on this one sign which has so much writing in the subplate relating to the operational timing and type of vehicle it applies to, in a busy location where there might be all sorts of traffic, including pedestrians, buses, taxis and also with the other necessary traffic signs which are also in place in a town/city centre and need to be adhered to?

And they also need to be fully aware of what exact time it might be. Their watch might not be accurate (or may still be on BST )... but would you get a penalty for going through at 7:05 when your watch was a bit slow? (Presumably 'Yes').

£2,500,000 is quite a tidy sum to raise from one location. 11,600 drivers going through the area per year. 31 illegal vehicles a day. There's something wrong if that's happening.

And if the restriction is in place to make the area safer for pedestrians between 7am and 11am and also from 4pm to 7pm, then by allowing drivers to carry on through RBC are being complicit in allowing those drivers to endanger those pedestrians the restriction is meant to help protect.

Instead of rubbing their hands together and looking at the fines piling in through the cash registers their highways team should be doing something about preventing such a high level of non-compliance before someone knocks over a pedestrian who thought they were in a safe area..