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Listed below are comments made by Cassiboo between Saturday, 17th May 2008 and Friday, 23rd May 2008.

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Flash, Bang, Wallop - what a picture! 08:36am on 23 May 2008 It seems to me that artisticAaron shows extraordinary naivety in his comment. It is obvious that this 'legalised' theft has nothing whatsoever to do with road safety and keeping traffic moving, but more to do with punishing motorists who are perceived as responsible for the planet's ills', not to mention about showing who is in control. I know of people receiving parking fines while they were visiting the Pay-and-Display machines!
Flash, Bang, Wallop - what a picture! 11:01pm on 17 May 2008 I found your programme fascinating, and it had many resonances of the nightmare I had with TfL and a box junction infraction on Archway Road at the junction with Shepherd's hill, in Highgate, London N6. It is very badly designed, with a bus stop just a few yards after the junction, and this causes traffic in the left hand lane to pull out to overtake the bus, cutting into the right hand lane, thereby blocking their exit from the box junction. In the first place, they issued a PCN which did not show the number of my vehicle, and indeed it was difficult to tell whether or not it was my car. They then issued further photographs, after which I raised the point about the box design. This had been pointed out before, but in my case, I argued the point and asked various questions under the Freedom of Information Act. TfL did not respond within the time limit. Although I pressed them by telephone for a reply, they told me the matter was on hold, leading me to believe I did not need to enter an appeal until I had heard from them. In the meantime I was informed that my fine was doubled and I no longer had the right to appeal as time had expired. I wrote to PATAS, but without success. I also sought to get the Information Commissioner to look at the matter, because of the unnecessary delay by TfL in answering a purely factual question about the number of fines imposed at the junction.

I have doubts about the legality of the junction, and wonder how many other people have been caught. The infraction is supposed to be entering the box when the exit is not clear, but that is not how they interpret it. The exit might be clear on entering, but then becomes blocked by a car changing lane, but they do not look at that on their videos. I would be interested to know how many such cases there are at this junction and across London.

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