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In Islington these are all fitted up with cameras, so he should get flagged up.
I know because I shamefully went the wrong way through a similar system around there. -
While it doesn't necessarily excuse the impatient driving, isn't that kind of road feature still supposed to allow permitted wider vehicles to pass (bin lorries, maybe community accessible transport minibuses, etc...), hence wider passing on the right hand side, combined with the dropped central area of the island?
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The possibility for wider vehicles to bypass this width restriction is a deliberate feature and not a design flaw, to allow emergency vehicles like fire engines and perhaps dustcarts (I don't know how wide they are) to get around it.
I don't know whether a public carriage vehicle like a community minibus is included among permitted vehicles, but it may be. I can well imagine such a vehicle being wider than 7' or just too wide to be easy to drive through it. None of that would excuse the driver taking it too fast.
Private drivers would most certainly not be within their rights to circumvent the width restriction. Do let us know what response you get back from the Council.
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They're designed like that so maintain access for emergency vehicles. All it takes is one knobhead to show the others and they're all doing it, at speed.
Edit: waaaaaay to late to this party
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Saw an Islington Council community accessible transport minibus this morning being driven by an absolute cretin. Instead of slowly inching through this road feature (which I assume is to both stop large vehicles accessing the road and maybe lessen speeding near the football pitch?) like all other vans etc. do he swung over into the wrong lane for a bit, then drove over the traffic island, mounted the kerb and then drove off, bouncing all his passengers around inside. I'm pretty sure he could have just fitted through with about seven seconds of patience. If it was too wide he just shouldn't be using that road and could have gone another way. Got his plate so I'm grassing him up to the council.
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