A Parking Warning

[Klive]

Here's a warning for you, not that any of us would park our beauties outside!
My daughter just found a parking ticket on her car for parking within 10 metres of a junction. Not on a main road, not on a busy road, not where you would think it's an obstruction and not where there are any lines on the road. Just near her house on a cramped housing estate.
The reward was a fixed penalty notice of £30.

 

[Parisien]

Easy pickings are the motoring public..........the more innocent the better.............given the more unusual aspect of the ticket.......hardly fair....no fairness any more in UK...its turned into Germany/Switzerland.......as regards enforcing rules...shame


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[zagatoes30]

10 Metre rule is a bugger, they don't need to display any signs as it is a static rule that applies to all roads. I know a few people caught out by it before although it tends not to be enforced in housing estates unless there is a clear obstruction to traffic or sight lines.

 

[Parisien]

Course you could always argue....metres aren't our national measure.......she thought it was 10 yards!!!!!!!


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[bigbob]

There are a lot of rules which are seldom enforced. Parking with your wheels on the kerb to help traffic flow can lead to this. I was once towed for it in central London, together with about ten other cars that had done the same.

 

[2b1ask1]

Cash strapped local authority milking the cash cow.... It's all about the money!

 

[Klive]

I reckon it was a neighbour. Splitter.

 

[hodroyd]

Tell the council she was forced to park there as a temporary measure, becuse she could not park near her home and had an injured child to take in to the house, so it was a child safety issue..!!

 

[TridentTested]

10 Metre rule is a bugger, they don't need to display any signs as it is a static rule that applies to all roads.

Gosh if that was enforced in London it would be chaos. I live in a borough not known for being kind to the motorist but even here once the restricted parking hours are over people are allowed park on any single line they can find - right up to junctions all over the place. The only one which will get you is blocking the pavement dip at a junction - and rightly too as this inconveniences wheelchair users and parents with prams.

There are indeed lots of rules ignored. Parking facing the traffic flow (as our American cousins call 'wrong wheels to the kerb') is also illegal but I've never seen anyone ticketed for it.

 

[bigbob]

This is maybe another way:

http://cars.aol.co.uk/2013/08/14/chinese-motorist-parks-maserati-in-the-middle-of-the-road-while/

 

[hodroyd]

Hahahahaha, really good..!!

 

[Contigo]

Wonder if this unlucky punter will get a ticket?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26013121

 

[hodroyd]

Underground Parking..!!

 

[bigbob]

Underground Parking..!!

Just need to get the stacker lift put in.

 

[hodroyd]

I wonder if the tracker works down there..??