The other day I saw a van parked on a double red line, with a "TFL Buses"
sign or similar in the window. The driver was attending to a ticket machine
at a bus stop. Is this formally allowed, or ar TfL breaking their own rules?
The red routes are supposed to aid traffic flow, not aid TfL.

In message news.demon.co.uk>, at 12:46:56 on Sat,
21 Jun 2008, John Rowland journeyflow.spamspam.demon.co.uk>
remarked:

The drivers of vans belonging to utility companies (and similar) often
take liberties. Two examples I've seen recently:

Van with cherry-picker, for repairing streetlamps. Parked on the
zig-zags at a busy zebra crossing. Well, they have to change them
somehow, I expect, but this one was in the lowered position and the
driver was eating his lunch.

A busy road where the double yellow lines have recently been augmented
with "no loading/unloading" kerb markings. Police car parked half on and
half off the pavement with a sign saying it was checking numberplates.
So not an emergency situation.

Roland Perry wrote:

Double red lines are 24 hour. They typically have numerous parking spaces
which are available outside the peak hour for the direction in question, but
the van in question was not parked in one.

Vehicles used by utility companies (statutory undertakers in the legal
parlance), plus the Royal Mail and certain others like highway
maintenance vehicles, are usually specifically exempted in the Traffic
Orders from the controls and are therefore not commiting an offence.
That's not to say that sometimes the drivers don't overstay their
welcome.

Peter Heather

On 21 Jun, 20:28, Peter Heather tiscali.co.uk> wrote:

On Jun 24, 3:15 pm, umpston hotmail.com> wrote: