Moving Traffic Offences

Using a route restricted to certain vehicles. (Contravention Code 33 & 34)

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These contraventions relate to using routes restricted to certain vehicles like cycles. The restrictions are shown on signs with white diagrams on blue backgrounds. See example signs below. There are various suffixes to the contravention code showing the various contraventions.

Suffixes:
33b) buses only
33c) buses and cycles only
33e) buses, cycles and taxis only
33f) buses and taxis only
33g) local buses only
33h) local buses and cycles only
33i) local buses, cycles and taxis only
33k) local buses and taxis only
33s) tramcars and buses only
33q) tramcars and local buses only

Sample signs

33c) Route for use by buses and pedal cycles only:

33s) Route for use by tramcars only.

How to have your penalty charge notice (PCN) for this moving traffic contravention cancelled.

Before checking the specific information relating to this offence you will need to check the following general information.

Specific grounds of appeal for this contravention

You will notice that there are many suffixes to this contravention. They are all shown above. You should check that the correct suffix is shown on your penalty charge notice.

There are 8 more ways that you can have your penalty charge notice cancelled for this offence. We have even summarised adjudicator's decisions where motorists have won. As this site took over a year to develop and cost a small fortune and in order to support our constant campaigning against this usually unfair assault on the motorist we ask for a small contribution to view the rest of this page and the whole site. For details of what we do for the motorist see the section on the home page.

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