How Much Is My Error Likely To Cost Me?

[Raffles]

At the weekend I was driving through London when I came across something that was new to me. In some residential streets, where width restrictions apply, there are mini bollards set into either side of the road (see pic below) that vehicles are supposed to pass through before proceeding.

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After having had my journey impeded a number of times by these obstructions, I thought bollocks to this for a lark and simply drove through the wide bit in the middle of the road. Why shouldn't I? After all, my vehicle is considerably less than 6'-6'' wide, a fact that I had already proved by easily fitting through the previous sets of bollards.
Anyway, I may come to regret my transgression. After being told off by Mrs Raffles, I glanced up and spotted a camera covering the bollarded area.
I'm expecting a penalty notification to drop through my letterbox someday soon. Does anyone know what the penalty is likely to be?
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[bikertomm]

How bloody ridiculous..

No idea but following with interest
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[sickpup]

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No idea.
The hatched area is bounded by solid white lines. So entering is technically a road traffic offence. I say technically as I believe the met police class a bicycle going through a red traffic light as only technically an offence not an actual one. So the goalposts have moved.

A council cannot fine you for a traffic offence. However depending on what by laws they make up could be many pennies.

I will channel RogerBorg and suggest you check on signs for the road and any traffic orders for that road and if they are valid.
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[sickpup]

[Aff]

Why put the restrictors on the side, but put a gap in the middle that would fit the larger vehicles?

Just to get some revenue from fines?
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[Hefty]

I'd like to say you'll be fine, as there's no question wether or not a motorcycle is wide enough to pass through either side.
The fact they set up a camera says otherwise, though
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[Furrybiker]

The reasoning is that emergency vehicles can use the centre gap. Penalty charge used to be £60 but may now have increased in line with fines to £100.

[goto10]

If you ignored a blue 'keep left' arrow and they caught you on camera then prepare your bottom.

IIRC £130 per offence, £65 if paid within 14 days.
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[keggyhander]

Fucking London.

Needs Napalming.

[loply]

Surely the cameras are there to catch wide vehicles ignoring the width restriction and going through the middle... Not to catch a normal vehicle / motorbike?
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[Wonko The Sane]

so they're not just really wide cycle lanes at the sides then?
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[stinkwheel]

Failure to comply with a traffic sign. Section 36 of the Road Traffic Act 1988.

It's a TS50. Up to 3 points + fine.

Entering chevrons bounded by a solid line is forbidden. Those gaps are there to allow access by energency vehicles which have an exemption.
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[Rogerborg]

The hatched area doesn't seem to match any of the diagrams in TSRGD.

Not that it matters, the keep-left is unambiguous and you're boned.

The revenue must flow.
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[tbourner]

What's the rule for emergency vehicles crossing solid white lines?

I'd heard that Class Ones can only break 3 rules on the road; speed limits, red traffic lights and keep left signs. I'd heard that they can't cross solid white lines so if they come up behind you with blues on a twisty country road they aren't allowed to overtake! But what does that mean for going to the right of a keep left sign? Cos they usually have solid white lines, are they part of the same keep left regulation?
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[angryjonny]

There are circumstances where Joe Public is allowed to cross a solid white line. To overtake something almost stationary, like a roadsweeper, for example.

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