Quick update on the parking ticket story.
Got a letter from the council saying "Parking at double yellow lines is not permitted. Even if only part of a vehicle is parked at a double yellow line it is still liable to be issued with a parking ticket."
At this stage I thought it was going to tell me to pay up or else and was wondering if the early payment discount was out of time.
But the letter goes on to say "We can however appreciate that the vehicle was not causing an inconvenience or obstruction to other road users and in view of this the parking ticket will be cancelled on this occasion."
Get in. Make that one nil for common sense.
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Friday, September 18, 2009
Park on this, bawbags
Well that's ruined things slightly.
I went out to jump in the car which was parked just outside my house in its usual spot, to discover I've been given a bloody parking ticket.
The parking bay is just long enough for four cars to fit in, with angled ends, but recently the council decided to reduce the size of the usable space by painting double yellow lines over the angled parts. I can see why they did this, to stop people parking side-on to these bits, thus having their rear end causing an obstruction on the road.
But my car wasn't causing any obstruction to anyone. I went as far back as possible to allow space for other cars to get in. The rear wheels where barely touching the yellow lines. Had I been four inches further forward they couldn't have touched me. But some over-zealous parking warden comes along and decides that I have made the following parking contravention:
Parking or loading/unloading in a restricted street where waiting and loading/unloading restrictions are in force.
Decide for yourself, I'd be interested to hear what you think. But it looks to me like I'm not doing too much wrong.
This just seems like a money making exercise to me. There's no way I'm going to line the council coffers for something as trifling as this. As Naldo said to me, I'd rather pay a bit more in a fair and equitable tax than get hit for ridiculous so-called infringements like this.
I'm gonna dispute this and take it all the way if I have to.
I went out to jump in the car which was parked just outside my house in its usual spot, to discover I've been given a bloody parking ticket.
The parking bay is just long enough for four cars to fit in, with angled ends, but recently the council decided to reduce the size of the usable space by painting double yellow lines over the angled parts. I can see why they did this, to stop people parking side-on to these bits, thus having their rear end causing an obstruction on the road.
But my car wasn't causing any obstruction to anyone. I went as far back as possible to allow space for other cars to get in. The rear wheels where barely touching the yellow lines. Had I been four inches further forward they couldn't have touched me. But some over-zealous parking warden comes along and decides that I have made the following parking contravention:
Parking or loading/unloading in a restricted street where waiting and loading/unloading restrictions are in force.
Decide for yourself, I'd be interested to hear what you think. But it looks to me like I'm not doing too much wrong.
This just seems like a money making exercise to me. There's no way I'm going to line the council coffers for something as trifling as this. As Naldo said to me, I'd rather pay a bit more in a fair and equitable tax than get hit for ridiculous so-called infringements like this.
I'm gonna dispute this and take it all the way if I have to.
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