Taxi Setting Down or Picking Up a Passenger at a Bus Stop Clearway
The law expressly exempts a taxi that is stationary at a bus stop clearway only for as long as reasonably necessary for a passenger to board or alight and load or unload their luggage. If you were driving a licensed taxi and stopped briefly for exactly that, no contravention occurred. This exemption does not apply on red routes, and it does not extend to private cars — an ordinary car has no set-down exception at a bus stop clearway.
Legal basis
Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016 (SI 2016/362), Schedule 7 Part 6 paragraph 4(2)(c) — taxi exception to the paragraph 1 clearway prohibition (disapplied for red route markings where paragraph 12 of Part 5 applies)
How to identify this in your case
This applies only if the vehicle is a licensed taxi (hackney carriage). Check: were you actively picking up or setting down a passenger, with the stop lasting no longer than that took? Gather your licence details, any booking/journey record covering the PCN time, and confirm the location is not a red route (red lines, not yellow). If the vehicle waited empty, or is a private car, this ground does not apply.
Sample appeal wording
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