Is this a valid yellow box junction? Needless to say Enfield Council are still issuing PCNs here, at the supposed junction of Southbury Road and Eaton Road but clearly there isn't a junction, so there isn't a need to keep the area clear, although most people where, but the light blue car owner was sent a PCN.
A 'box junction' (at this locale) means 'an area of carriageway where the marking has been placed and which is at a junction between two or more roads'.
That is the case normally whilst Eaton Road is open to traffic but Mr Mustard would argue firstly that if you can't drive down enter or exit Eaton Rd then temporarily there is no junction and there is, of course, no traffic management purpose to any PCNs issued whilst the side road is coned off. The only effect of leaving the camera running is to raise revenue.
Mr Mustard has been agitating for some time about the way that moving traffic systems work. The cctv computer controlled camera watches the footage 24/7 and selects clips which the computer programmer defines as a contravention and once a day a person is meant to watch the clips and come to a reasoned decision that a contravention did take place and that a PCN should be issued.
It is possible to automate the entire process of issuing such PCNs and Mr Mustard thinks that may be happening. Alternatively the people who watch the clips simply say yes to everything. There is no common sense. Mr Mustard thinks that operators assume the cctv is correct, of course the motorist is guilty, and ticks yes to a PCN.
This is the sort of immoral behaviour we have come to expect from the private parking sector, a local authority should be beyond criticism at all times.
Enfield Council - hang your heads in shame and pro-actively cancel all PCNs and refund monies paid for any PCNs issued during the days when access was not possible.
Yours frugally
Mr Mustard
Enfield's response:
Parking Services were not made aware* of the closure of Eton (sic, Eaton) Road by our Highways Department and only found out last week. We went through a process of cancelling all 247 PCNs which was completed on the 4th October. We have received a communication from your neighbour which was logged on our system on 6th Ocotber. The case was reopened this morning to send a response to confirm that the PCN has been cancelled and case is now closed again.
*Parking must all use public transport to get to work then? Mr M.
Common sense has prevailed.
If the yellow box was painted ONLY on the other side of the road, and Eaton Road was open to traffic, would that box junction, under the 2016 regulations, still be a legally valid box junction? Under the 2002 regs it clearly wouldn't be, but I can't work it out under the 2016 regs.
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