Hello starrsa, I've just come across the thread you started in 2009 about the penalty that was imposed on you for briefly stopping at a bus stop in Wandsworth. The same thing has just happened to me. I stopped for probably no more than a minute to look at a map, as I hadn't visited the area for several years and the road layout had changed which necessitated a change to the route with which I had been familiar. I would therefore be interested to know which bus stop you were caught at and whether it might be a defacto money spinner for the council! The one I was caught out at was on the southbound side of Nightingale Lane, close to Clapham South underground station. As it happens, I see from Google Streetview that there is nowhere to pull in near the station to pick people up. Is that reasonable? I think not. By and large the points raised on the thread were informative and it would seem that the council was within its legal right to impose a penalty. Whether it is reasonable is another matter. There wasn't much traffic around as it was the day after Boxing Day and, like you, I checked in my mirror to see if there was a bus coming up behind, which there wasn't of course. The extent of CCTV monitoring now in the UK worries me, especially when it seems to be being increasingly used to catch people out making minor infringmements in our now crowded urban streets rather than just monitoring criminality. The former communist countries would have loved to have had such technology. In conclusion I am going to appeal but if I am unsucessful, which I suspect I will be, I will then persue it in the magistrates court as I feel very strongly that this is a totally unreasonable action by the council.