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To: Birmingham City Council

Birmingham Councils Unfair Bus Lane Fines

We the undersigned demand that Birmingham City Council refund all fines that were incurred by all motorists for contraventions in bus lanes. These lanes were deemed by an independent adjudicator to be inadequately signed and sometimes confusing in his report dated 24th February 2014.

Why is this important?

Approx. £1.9m was wrongly collected from 70 thousand motorists who were not aware they were even entering a bus lane. The adjudicator said the signs were confusing and inadequate, so these fines should not be enforced. Innocent motorists, many of whom were visiting the nearby Children's Hospital, have paid the fines not realising the Councils serious errors, but no offence whatsoever has been committed.

Birmingham City Council are refusing to repay the money and now refuse to discuss this in the public domain, reverting to debating in a private session with no one else allowed to know what has happened in the meeting.

Citizens and visitors to Birmingham, experiencing recently altered city centre road layouts, will find this confusing.

You can read more about how this happened here: http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/new-birmingham-city-centre-bus-6681476

How it will be delivered

We are confident that either a member of a local party or our MP will present the petition by hand to a full Council meeting .We may consider a press conference dependent on the numbers of signature received.

Birmingham City Centre

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Updates

2016-03-09 11:01:22 +0000

25 signatures reached

2015-09-30 07:38:50 +0100

We have at last got one politician(yes one - speaks volumes for the concern of Birmingham councillors for their constituents) to come and look at our evidence that proves the Council made a serious error.Currently they are adopting a policy of ignoring us which is,I`m afraid ,typical .Please keep signing - if we do not rectify this scandal all Councils will get the green light to do whatever they want.

2015-09-25 14:39:34 +0100

Just asked all our friends who previously signed to share this on twitter ,facebook and by e mails to anybody they know.We have also offered all labour councillors ,bar those in high office,to come and see us so we can show them the evidence that shows the Council have made a serious error in fining these innocent people - and guess what - not one will come forward.I wonder why ?

2015-04-27 23:17:32 +0100

10 signatures reached