Last week I wrote to Tony Page, the Lead Ciouncillor for Transport asking what he was doing about the width restriction on Norcot Road in Tilehurst.

It has been widely reported in the press that the supposed 6′ 6″ gap on the downhill side was in fact only 6′ 4″ wide. Not a huge difference but enough to force hundereds of van drivers to avoid the width restriction by using the adjacent bus lane. THis was never a problem until the council installed a traffic camera to police the bus lane and within weeks hundreds of drivers have been fined for avoiding the width restriction which was actually narrower than it should be.

This is all just another example of the council now actually preying on motorists in order to boost the council’s own finances as my colleague Warren Swaine has already made clear here

Unsurprisingly Cllr Page has been in no hurry to respond and the number of fines just keeps going up and the coun cil cannot even get its width measurements put right.