Dr Sarah Hattam used the Freedom of Information Act to discover she was one of 182 drivers who were ordered to pay £60 for using a bus lane in Bradford between 6am and noon on a Sunday when they appear to have had to take a diversion to avoid a charity fun run and having to use a bus lane on the badly-signed diversion.
“Despite making £10,920 from the fines – 26 times more than the Sunday before – Bradford City Council rejected Dr Hattam’s appeal.
However, thanks to the successful FoI application, she is asking an independent adjudicator to overturn her fine.
Dr Hattam said: ‘My husband put in the Freedom of Information request as he thought that others may have been caught on the day. But we didn’t expect this many. It is not about the money. By the letter of the law they are right.
‘The commonsense approach would be to waive the offence. Is it possible the diversion signs were not as clear as they could have been?’
The council has cashed in from the fun-run diversion before. At the same event in 2013, 223 drivers received £60 fines for the same offence.”
East Devon Watch 
Plymouth City Council are also known for milking the bus lane cameras. An adjudicator found for me because they didn’t supply adequate evidence of participate in a group call. Always worth challenging unfairness.
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