One London road saw almost 60,000 driving fines issued in a single year, generating more than £4 million from motorists, new analysis has revealed.
Tottenham Court Road in Camden topped the capital’s most-fined roads, with 59,329 Penalty Charge Notices (PCNs) handed out in 2025/26, according to research based on almost 500,000 PCNs across London.
The busy West End road, a major shopping and transport route with sections reserved for buses and cycles, issued more penalties than any other street in the city.
Second on the list is North Worple Way in Mortlake, in the borough of Richmond upon Thames, where a camera-enforced traffic restriction caught out drivers 43,861 times — costing motorists an estimated £361,000.
Third is Oldfield Lane South in Greenford, Ealing, where 31,252 fines were issued — around £2.2 million in penalties. The road runs close to Coston Primary School, where restrictions are in force at certain times to keep children safe.
The top five is completed by the Albert Bridge (north side) in Kensington and Chelsea, where 30,798 penalties raised around £2.3 million — the historic bridge between Chelsea and Battersea has restrictions because of structural limits — and Station Parade in Barking, directly outside Barking Station, where camera enforcement led to 28,857 fines.
The rest of the top 15 reads like a tour of the capital’s most heavily enforced streets: High Street North in Newham (27,227 fines), Bull Lane in Enfield near North Middlesex University Hospital — where a bus gate bans motor vehicles — with 25,215, the Abbey Road junction with High Path in Merton, where anti rat-running filters caught 22,881 drivers, Maze Hill in Greenwich (21,810), Ilford Lane in Redbridge (20,971), Rye Lane in Southwark (20,122), Camrose Avenue in Harrow (19,889), Lansdowne Drive in Hackney (18,905), Tilling Road in Barnet (16,173) and Hazelbank Road in Lewisham (13,665).
When it comes to the money, Westminster City Council made more from PCNs than any other London borough, generating more than £37 million.
The figures underline how camera-enforced restrictions — from school streets and bus gates to anti rat-running filters — now dominate London’s roads. The capital’s 20mph speed limits have more than tripled under Sadiq Khan, figures have shown, as councils extend enforcement measures across their networks.
And fines are only part of what drivers pay on the capital’s roads. Tolls for the Silvertown and Blackwall tunnels rose in September 2026, adding to the cost of driving in London.
Nationally, the most common road fine is for yellow lines and loading, which accounts for 21.9 per cent of PCNs. Millions of penalty charge notices are issued across the country every year, generating hundreds of millions of pounds for councils.
With more than 42 million people now holding a full driving licence — an all-time high — the number of vehicles on the roads, and the enforcement cameras watching them, shows little sign of slowing down.
