Road markings on Park Way bridge repainted

The junction has been at the centre of a row after an independent tribunal upheld an appeal in March by Reading motorist Peter Jeffries, who was fined £60 on September 12 last year for exiting one of the Wharf car parks into the bus, taxi and bicycle-only lane.
The traffic penalty tribunal adjudicator cancelled the fine and ruled that the alleged contravention did not occur because the carriageway warning was sited so that drivers had already entered the forbidden area by the time they saw it.
In addition, the adjudicator said that the signs were not adequately clear and gave insufficient opportunity to understand where the restriction began and how to avoid it.
It subsequently emerged that more than 10,000 motorists have been fined for wrongly using the bridge since the restrictions were introduced in 2012.
However, highways chiefs insist that the signs are adequate and they do not accept the independent tribunal’s ruling.
Yesterday a spokeswoman for the council, Peta Stoddart-Crompton said that repainting was a part of the “routine maintenance of the road markings that is part of repainting works around Newbury now that the weather has improved.”