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Complaint outcomes: Transport and highways

This section covers complaints about:

  • highway management, such as road works and road adoption
  • harbours and waterways
  • traffic management, such as congestion charging and bus lanes
  • parking
  • rights of way
  • public transport 

Most complaints about public transport fall outside our jurisdiction, but there are some in the London area that we can look at.

 

Recent cases in this category are shown below.

London Borough of Bexley (10 009 251)
The Council’s rigid following of procedure and failure to update its address records meant that a woman suffered bailiff action unnecessarily for a parking fine.

18 July 2011

Welwyn Hatfield BC (10 001 961)
The Council did not take into account its legal duties to people with disabilities when it introduced car parking charges for blue badge holders.

23 May 2011

London Borough of Redbridge (09 009 572)
Failures by the London Borough of Redbridge meant that an elderly disabled man lost the use of his disabled parking permit for 23 weeks.

11 August 2010

Eastleigh Borough Council (08 020 845 plus one other)
The Council’s decision to stop issuing travel tokens to eligible disabled people and those over the age of 70 was flawed.

10 June 2010

Havant Borough Council (07B15825 and 08 007 844)
Failure to consider its duties under the Disability Discrimination Act when it replaced its existing concessionary travel schemes for disabled people with the minimum requirements of a new national scheme.

24 September 2009