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Published: 20 September 2007

Not just wardens who are ripping us off

• IT is not just Camden’s parking wardens who are ripping us off.
Transport for London is at it too. I carefully avoid the Congestion Charge zone but around three months ago was caught on camera inside the zone. How come?
I had driven from NW3 and joined the charge-free Westway via the Harrow Road access. There were no clear signs to warn that the short access road briefly enters the C-zone.
I paid up promptly because there was no clear option to contest on grounds of unclear signage and I did no want to risk an increased penalty.
But I went back over the Westway access route, taking photographs which showed the inadequate signage.
In other parts of London the C-zone warning signs are clear so either the unclear signage for Westway access is a mistake or a deliberate attempt to trap motorists and earn easy money. I wrote to Transport for London providing the photographic evidence and I wrote to Ken Livingstone.
Neither has had the courtesy or concern to reply.
London Assembly Member Angie Bray has now asked the director of Congestion Charging to investigate, and copied in our Assembly Member Brian Coleman; our MP Glenda Jackson has asked to the MD of surface transport for TfL to investigate.
If anyone else in north west London has been similarly caught driving from here to Westway, it might help them to know that some wheels are now in motion.
Ken and company, like Camden, are very good at spinning the illusion of concern for London and Londoners, but a lot less concerned when it comes to our civil rights.
BARRY FOX
Holmefield Court, NW3

Send your letters to: The Letters Editor, Camden New Journal, 40 Camden Road, London, NW1 9DR or email to letters@camdennewjournal.co.uk. The deadline for letters is midday Tuesday. The editor regrets that anonymous letters cannot be published, although names and addresses can be withheld. Please include a full name, postal address and telephone number. Letters may be edited for reasons of space.

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