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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.
