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Beware of new NO ENTRY sign on Manor Road, West Ealing when picking up your parcels

In November my wife got two PCNs for ignoring a brand new NO ENTRY sign on Manor Road which stops you going straight back out to Argyle Road after you have picked up your parcels from the Post Office depot on Manor Road.  Talking to the bloke in the enforcement van/car this new restriction has been in place for three weeks and they are giving out lots of tickets.  My wife is not the type to ignore street signs but she is the type to not notice that the road layout has changed if it is only discreetly signed.   There is no NO LEFT TURN sign on the adjacent Drayton Road and there are no yellow additional information signs of the type the council was forced to put up when they changed the layout around the Town Hall.  It is a bit of a trap for the unwary.  I will post some photos underneath.  The council must know that Manor Road attracts infrequent but regular visitors who are likely to get caught by a change in the road layout.  I did ask the guy behind the counter in the Post Office if they could put up a sign to inform their customers but he was practically indignant that I should suggest such a thing.  Jobsworthism still alive and well in the privatised Post Office parcels business.  In passing I asked a CEO (traffic warden in old money) why they didn't ticket the Post Office vans on the single yellow lines outside the Post Office.  Apparently the parking managers insists they wait 20 minutes!  So one rule for the Post Office and one rule for everyone else.

Phil Taylor ● 2199d12 Comments

There is an offence of failing to comply with signals and signs that carries 3 points and a fine but that has to be prosecuted by the police, normally it's just a fine.

N V Brooks ● 2135d

Curiosity really but, if caught going through a no-entry sign, do you get points on your licence along with a fine?  Or is considered in the same category as a bus lane violation with just a fiscal penalty?

Philip Coe ● 2135d

Read you own first post in this thread for the answer.Rude and sarchastic seems to be your signature, especially when it relates to those not using pedal cycles.

N V Brooks ● 2164d

And what do you find so amusing about being so rude towards me?

Ben Owen ● 2164d

We have met along with the late, much missed, Gerry Tan shame that you don't recall this.I was banned in 2017 on the Chiswick W4 forum for swearing at someone  (not proud of this) but it was in reaction to a post which doubted the veracity of the Sutherland Springs church shootings in the USA, claiming that the victims were 'actors' when the evidence was clear that a number of churchgoers had been murdered.

N V Brooks ● 2164d

Nigel - what do you find so amusing about being so rude, especially towards someone who you don't know? You really have gone down in my estimations.If you want to answer the question, could you also explain to us why you were banned from the forum?

Ben Owen ● 2164d

My friend received a PCN. He went to Sorting office and parked before no entry sign in Manor Road. His return journey involved a sort of three -point turn over the lines in the road but with the no entry sign above his sight-line obscured by the roof line of the car. He checked on Council website and found modification yet to be officially approved so he may get off.However £6,000,000 is being spent in West Ealing to keep cars out of residential areas. This clever plot at Manor Road on the other hand makes cars return to civilisation via a long diversion through residential areas and a very difficult/read dangerous junction at the Argyle Road.There is no SCRUTINY and no APPRAISAL of these schemes. Surely we can do better than this especially now austerity is finished?lastly I was involved in a rather one sided appraisal of the modifications to the road prior to the opening of the station. I spent many hours arguing that there should be vehicular drop -off and pick up spaces (particularly for the disabled). This use being subverted to passenger mingling that i have never witnessed but which was central to the design I can't remember this out-rigger being constructed as I write. New fashion in Perceval castle?

Arthur Breens ● 2167d

Certainly the new no entry restriction appears to be well displayed with, along with road markings, signs on posts on either side of the road.But I do not understand what it is trying to achieve? Surely best to get heavy traffic from the station redevelopment back onto the Argyle Road by the shortest route.Interestingly Drayton Road that flanks the Post Office Sorting Office now has a new road sign at the South end with the warning "Unsuitable for HGVs"?  Upon arriving at the new no entry signs what are they supposed to do?All seems a little odd to me can anyone explain?  Could there be some obscure connection to the proposed tower block development on the corner of Manor Road/Argyle Road?

Philip Coe ● 2174d

. . . and of course cyclists are exempt from laws of the road, such as traffic lights and stopping at zebra crossings as we all know.

Ian Fergus ● 2187d

Yawn, the cyclist has woken up!

N V Brooks ● 2198d

Beware! If your wife cannot see the words "NO ENTRY" painted on the road, just to the east of Drayton Road, then you will need to ask her to have her eyes tested, or admit that she took a chance and got caught out.

Ben Owen ● 2198d

Phil, yes please . . .  photos would be great, thank you.

Tony Heath ● 2199d