Rather than just thinking about it people are now prepared to challenge Ealing Councils illegal junctions.

Most people are of aware of the fact that junction at South Road and St Joseph's Drive had made more than £1m for the council for the 2007/8 financial year; despite rulings by the Parking Ombudsman saying it is too large.

London United Busways were the latest to successfully challenged 17 tickets handed to its drivers for stopping in two the controversial junctions in South Road, Southall.

In his ruling the Adjudicator Gerald Styles of the Parking and Traffic Appeals Service (PATAS) said: "I think the council has got it wrong."

Costs of £750 were awarded against the Council because they had been "wholly unreasonable" and did not learn from their earlier defeats for the same contested junctions.

It appears that the Council may have at last just woken up to the reality.

The Department for Transport has previously said it expected councils to pay back money which had been raised through unfair enforcement to motorists.

Jim Douglas, who runs consumer website Moneybox Junction, has been campaigning against these junctions.

Reminds me of another story, of a lorry driver in north London, who drove over a burst water main and the front wheel of the lorry became stuck up to the axle.

While waiting for a rescue truck, a traffic warden gave him a ticket saying I am not listening because "you can appeal".