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Live cases legal advice => Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) => Topic started by: settop23 on March 27, 2025, 03:35:10 pm
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If you did what I think you did, and you told me (in a private message) you’d check this, then see https://www.manchester.gov.uk/info/200024/consultations_and_surveys/8436/moving_traffic_contraventions_consultation/8 which has a no right turn sign, a no U-turn sign and traffic lights showing “ahead only”. The picture is looking westbound, away from Wilmslow and towards Hale, because the motorway overbridge is in the distance.
It’s also on Google Street View, as it says, which I just about managed to make work.
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If you want to know more, please confirm exactly what you did, but I’m reasonably sure there’s a “no right turn” sign on the westbound through road.
If suitably motivated (I’m not talking ££, just personal interest) I can go and check for you.
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This is my local motorway junction, and this prohibited turn has been mentioned quite frequently in the last year. I’m guessing that you went straight on, then turned right at the lights rather than going left in the first place and round.
I note that there was a proposal for a camera to catch/enforce this specific violation. It may well have been implemented now.
I can’t comment on the signage because I’ve been using this junction for so long that I don’t look at it. I think there is a “no right turn” sign on the westbound through road which is relatively new, but in response to people doing - presumably - what you did.
For those unfamiliar, on the east side of the motorway there’s a roundabout into which the westbound motorway exit feeds, plus there’s a road through the middle of the roundabout which is only for traffic going straight on towards Hale or the M56 towards Manchester in the westbound direction (and towards Wilmslow only eastbound). Traffic for the airport environs from Wilmslow has to turn left and follow the roundabout.
If you did what I think you did, I think you’re only going to escape payment on a technicality.
The road layout has not changed for many years, indeed not since the M56 opened I don’t think, but it seems that people turning right when prohibited is either a relatively recent problem or nobody noticed or cared before.
See https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/drivers-could-soon-fined-seven-25009655, for example.
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Hello,
I have receieved a PCN from Manchester City Council for an alleged moving traffic contravention. Would it be worth appealing this, I was following satnav and as it was dark I did not see any no right turn signs or anything similar (haven't been to the area before).
Please find attached PCN :
https://imgur.com/a/3IQarZl
Many thanks