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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Miriam Burrell

Rat-running drivers could be fined in Barons Court as Hammersmith council ‘in talks with residents’

In South Fulham out-of-borough drivers are fined £60 for taking shortcuts on residential streets

(Picture: PA Archive)

Barons Court residents are eyeing up a scheme that would see drivers fined for shortcutting through the area as the council says it’s “less abrasive” than Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs).

Hammersmith & Fulham Council has told the Standard it is in “early” discussions with Barons Court and Brackenbury residents about designing a clean air trial scheme similar to one that has been expanded to all of South Fulham.

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