Kingston Council raked in a quarter of a million pounds in box junction fines in just two months from drivers breaking the rules.
Enforcement at two boxes netted the council a total of £254,037.50 in October and November. It only took on enforcing box junctions in September.Drivers were caught 1,101 times in October at the junction of Wheatfield Way and Clarence Street – by the iconic red phone boxes – handing over £62,851 to the council, and another £37,352 last month. But the real cash cow was the junction of Ewell Road and Elgar Avenue in Tolworth, where motorists paid £153,835, a Freedom of Information request revealed.
Law teacher David Mark, of Berrylands, was handed a fine on October 16. In September, the council took over responsibility for enforcing moving traffic violations, like cars using a bus lane, or driving the wrong way down a one-way street, from the police.
By law, money from fines must be put back into road maintenance or public transport, after being used to pay for the cost of enforcement. The council admits the list of moving traffic enforcement locations on its website is not “exhaustive”.
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