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I am keen to submit a formal representation as soon as possible urgently re the above PCN. It is at Enforcement Notice stage. I have been absorbed with family health matters.  My previous message below set out my situation at informal representation stage but I would be pleased to provide any further information.

Would anybody be able to review a formal representation I wish to make imminently?

I am planning to submit what I have submitted at informal stage (and adjust it slightly as necessary to get my case across) - i.e. I believe it is wrong to have a box junction leading/going straight into a bus lane and with ensuing fines. As a first-time visitor to Camden in my car, and with no foresight of the layout in advance, I feel the set-up is wholly misleading and I drove ahead unknowingly. In my opinion, it is a precarious situation.

Which correspondence (which would be blank of key personal details) should I supply at this point which would assist your potential review?

I have 1) a PCN (not attached)

Attached: 2) typed up text of my informal representation(it was handwritten content originally) -

I am wishing to challenge PCN GX32826947. I wish to contest it for the reasons below:-

1)  Advance warning of the bus lane – a blue sign in Camden Road just before Lyme Street is obscured by a Congestion Charge sign.  I did not see any advance tarmac sign for a bus lane immediately at the other side of the box junction.

2)  The inside lane became the bus lane immediately after the yellow box junction with traffic lights at Camden Street.   The bus lane is so close to the exit of that junction that dotted white line of the bus lane sit side-by-side/meets the yellow of the box junction.  Therefore, driver(s) exiting the junction is/are not able to leave the junction in the inside lane.  However, the arrow on the road surface at the stopline at the junction indicates drivers may continue straight on (i.e. into box junction and coming out onto bus lane as explained above). or This is very confusing for drivers.  Going onto the box junction is permitted but coming out of it would mean going into a bus lane and a fine ensuing.  I don’t believe this can be reasonable.  I expect that advance warning should be given and that authorities must ensure signs and road markings are clear, not misleading and transparent (i.e. not ambiguous).

Cont’d

3) I saw no markings on the tarmac of the bus lane with words “Bus Lane”.  They do not appear.  Your photos above capture my vehicle over being at the mouth of the bus lane.  They show a short period of 1530.57 to 15.31677.  On that afternoon, I only recognised that I had been temporarily in an area not designated for drivers when I simultaneously saw a solid white line to my right on the tarmac and I immediately took action to leave there as quick as possible.  There had been no bus lane marking on the floor and it was not clear to me that I could have been in a bus lane.  I had no intention of going or being in a bus lane and took immediate steps at that time in the presence of the white line.

I am a new driver to Camden (i.e. it was my first visit to Camden in my car) and was unfamiliar with the area.  I saw no markings that made me believe that I would enter a bus lane virtually directly from a permissible lane of a box junction at the site.

I would therefore request the PCN be cancelled thereby avoiding effort for both parties.  If you do not cancel it, please send me a form so that I may refer the matter to London Tribunals.

Please could you supply any video evidence of the incident to my home address XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.

Thank you.
Yours sincerely

XXXXXX


3) TFL's subsequent reply (not attached), and

Attached: 4) an Enforcement Notice dated 08/06. 3 of 6 pages.

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Or do you need full page sets and TFL's reply as well?

I have many photos of the area of issue taken both in February 2026 (evening, rainy) and June 2026 (daytime, bright) and markings/directional arrows on the road and the congestion charge sign which completely obscures a bus lane sign. This dynamic has not changed over the time. I would be glad to upload those upon your advice.

Location of Junction (Oct 24 

Please could you advise if you could assist me further with a review and do you think you could help at a later stage if it does not resolve itself.  I am sorry to approach you at this late stage but I am quite preoccupied on an ongoing basis.

Thank you for your comments or requests.

Thank you Incandescent for your very prompt reply.

What are you suggesting I should note from the images though?  I am a little confused.

Please could you let me know.

(I have photos showing how the bus sign is obscured in my opinion by the preceding large Congestion Zone sign a little further back, as the driver approaches the signs on Camden Road (on their left) coming down from the Camden Road Station which is on their right - does this help you in any way to see this?)

I am planning to submit my formal representation in handwriting on the form - is their a requirement to send TFL images at this stage??  I didn't think this was the case as I believed photos would be useful if the matter goes further to the Tribunals.

Thank you for your comment as I am soon to submit the text I provided above. Are there any other obvious tweaks I should make to the text itself do you think?

Thank you I am a little unfamiliar with this process as you might assess.

Thank you for your reply Incandescent.  I will have a look at the information on the Register over the next days.  I have submitted a formal representation for their consideration.

Thank you once again.

I have submitted a formal representation for their consideration.

When and how? The last day of the 28-day period was 7 July.