The BBC report:

Taunton motorists have paid more than £250,000 in fines over the past eight months for using two bus gates.

Figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show between September 2012 and April 2013, 9,265 drivers were given £60 fixed penalty notices.

Nearly 7,000 paid promptly and had their fine reduced to £30. There were 1,450 appeals of which 169 were successful.

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Matthew Burgess
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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.