Adjudicators have been split as to whether a car that goes across the road and down the side of Sainsbury's had actually turned right or not, with only the merest turn of the wheel being necessary to get there and the no right turn signs apparently intended to stop right turns into the Finchley Road.
Well the doubt will soon exist no more as the signs are to be changed on or about 3 June to mandatory turn left signs (the 'turn left' letters on the road not having featured in any adjudication decision that Mr Mustard has read).
The junction is, of course, under the ever watchful gaze of a cctv camera which will automatically send you a PCN if you now fail to go left.
If you want to go to Sainsbury's best not now arrive via Rodborough Road or turn left, go around the clock tower and turn through 180 degrees, minding the camera on the yellow box outside the tube station, and then turn left into St Albans Lane or go up North End Lane and right into West Heath Drive.
If you think that there never was any conflict at St Albans Lane you are able to send an objection into the council at any time between now and 3 December, using the email address in the Notice above or by traditional mail.
Be careful out there.
Yours frugally
Mr Mustard
This sort of situation has in fact been adjudicated before though. In Wright v Howard [1973] RTR 12, the High Court said: "I cannot comprehend how anyone coming down Turl Street and making that manoeuvre could be said to be making a right-hand turn into High Street. The word 'into' in my judgment is an important one, because a right-hand turn into High Street means that you turn into High Street, and not go virtually straight across it."
ReplyDeleteJudging from Google Maps and Streetview, although that bit of one-way St. Albans Lane is inbound, the "slow down" triangle on the road (admittedly as faded as the double-yellow lines) looks like it was once outbound anyway!
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