ARWadsworth wrote:
"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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Andrew Gabriel wrote:
I recall back around 2004 several of the delivery companies in London
saying they could only deliver to our offices in the City if we provided
them with a parking place or agreed to pay their parking fines.
Otherwise
we had to collect from their depots. This resulted in quite an outcry
from many companies in the City, and I think there's now a scheme in
place which allows delivery drivers a tiny bit of leeway, sometimes.
As I said the restriction here is only between 11.30-12.30 to prevent
commuter parking. But then we're not *that* close to a station. Within
the
same zone, close to a station it's all the working day - and a visitor or
trade daily pass costs a lot more.
But it is rigidly enforced here. A spotter on a scooter drives round at
before 11.30 and radios in vehicles without permits. A foot patrol
arrives
shortly after 11.30 and does the paperwork and takes pics. Same thing
happens just before 12.30. I have an alarm on both this computer and the
one in the workshop set for 11.20 just in case I've got absorbed in what
I'm doing. I well remember having to go to the loo before going out one
day (dodgy curry the night before) and getting to the car a few minutes
late to find a ticket on it. I took a time stamped pic on my phone and
sent off an appeal stating what had happened. They did waive the fine.
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*The average person falls asleep in seven minutes *
Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.
Bugger. I got a ticket today in a residents parking area.
The rules are 1 hour max stay apart from permit holders and no return in
2 hours. I parked up, unloaded my tools and had a cup of tea with the
customer whilst we discussed what work we would be doing and how it
would be done. I then went and displayed the parking permit the customer
had given me. Shortly after I got a ticket.
When I later had words with the warden she said when she first recorded
my van there was no permit visible and so when she passed an hour later
she ticketed my van. Her argument was I should have displayed the permit
when I first parked up and not 45 minutes later. I do not agree with her.
VERY important point.
I got off a ticket once.
The ticket was for not having paid for a parking meter.
I had paid, so I sent them the ticket showing I had, and expected an end
to it.
No, I got doubled up for the privilege, and the warden then complained
teh ticket was upside down on the dash. (it wasn't: it was right side
up on the dash) and the offence became failure to display..correctly
(whatever that means) I complained that it wasn't beyond the bounds to
read an upside down ticket. I got doubled up again. Think it was £180 by
this time. I went to legal appeal where it was rejected BECAUSE THE
ORIGINAL TICKET WAS FAILURE TO PAY, NOT FAILURE TO DISPLAY CORRECTLY. It
is illegal to change the offence apparently, to suit the facts if they
turn out to be different.
So..
check to see what's written on the ticket.
If it says failure to display, you may be buggered. If it says failure
to have a residents permit, which you clearly had, you may yet get away
with it.
Adam