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[feeutfo]

I didn't know they had these bloody things 


Parking Mad, bbc1 now. Unbelievable. H saw one, as it happens, in Reading. But didn't realise what it was. She does now, we both do.

[feeutfo]

This sort of thing.
http://grahamneale.mycouncillor.org.uk/2011/05/13/parking-or-extortion/

[plym ian]

we've had them in Plymouth for sometime now, they are sneaky little things. my mates Missus got done by one she pulled over to drop him off on double yellow lines 2 seconds if that just ast on of these came by. a couple of weeks later photo evidence and a £70 fine

I've seen them go round the streets and quickly turn the car around to catch people. it's run by our local council and on the car it has got the words "making Plymouth safer" but many a time has it been caught parked illegally

one rule for us one rule for them.

[Vamps]

Watching this at the moment......

[feeutfo]

And that's exactly the point of this programme Ian.


The number of successfull appeals is quite staggering. But you get no compensation for wrongfull issue. There is no allowance for compensation in law!

[feeutfo]

It's small businesses I feel for, especially in the current economic climate.

[Vamps]

It's small businesses I feel for, especially in the current economic climate.

Quite agree.........   swmbo wants to know how the builder got on in Court, is this a 'One Off'?

[Andy B]

We have a similar cars but for monitoring bus lanes. 

[feeutfo]

Google reveals..

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/9214210/Landmark-ruling-for-drivers-over-council-spy-cars.html

[feeutfo]

It's small businesses I feel for, especially in the current economic climate.

Quite agree.........   swmbo wants to know how the builder got on in Court, is this a 'One Off'?

one off I think

80k in fines, for a builder picking up and dropping off. As he has to.

[Vamps]

It's small businesses I feel for, especially in the current economic climate.

Quite agree.........   swmbo wants to know how the builder got on in Court, is this a 'One Off'?

one off I think

80k in fines, for a builder picking up and dropping off. As he has to.

Exactly what we said, must be very difficult for builders or similar to work in some towns when they need their vehicle for tools / spares etc and I have some historical experience of this but in the days when you could 'get away with a genuine argument with a traffic warden'.....

[bigegg]

I'm sure that you are allowed to pick up/set down on a double yellow line?
http://www.direct.gov.uk/prod_consum_dg/groups/dg_digitalassets/@dg/@en/documents/digitalasset/dg_070563.pdf
As to compensation for unlawfully issued tickets, I got a ticket a few years ago (2007?) for parking on a single yellow line.
I appealed because there was no plate giving times.
Leeds c/c rejected because there was a plate on another yellow line, about 10ft away from the line I was parked on.
I pushed it to the adjudicator, and was awarded 90 quid costs. :.))
Next time I drove past, the plate had been fitted 

[feeutfo]

I'm sure that you are allowed to pick up/set down on a double yellow line?
http://www.direct.gov.uk/prod_consum_dg/groups/dg_digitalassets/@dg/@en/documents/digitalasset/dg_070563.pdf
As to compensation for unlawfully issued tickets, I got a ticket a few years ago (2007?) for parking on a single yellow line.
I appealed because there was no plate giving times.
Leeds c/c rejected because there was a plate on another yellow line, about 10ft away from the line I was parked on.
I pushed it to the adjudicator, and was awarded 90 quid costs. :.))
Next time I drove past, the plate had been fitted 

exactly, he is allowed, that's his point. Yet he has 80k in fines. He said if the lads are daft and park in a bus lane or a genuine ticket he pays them. But his fleet of vans are booked in the line of duty so to speak, and illegally so. Or unjustly so.

Also, he had an appeal, the cameras followed him, on return he said the appeal was upheld. Nothing to pay, on iirc, about a 1k in fines on that particular appeal. Disgaraceful. What's he supposed to do, employ someone to deal with parking appeals? Utterly unfair on the guy.

[feeutfo]

This reminds me, a while back, I was moved on by a yellow cap by council offices in Reading. Fair enough, but parked on the pavement in a pedestrian zone where half a dozen cars.

I said your obviously here to book those then? He said no, they are council staff cars on council land.  !

[Bionic]

  Councils of whatever flavour will always take the easy route to raise revenue (usually the driversbcause by way of their number plates they are an easy prey to capture) and provide jobs for the civil servants who are little other than parasites on the real working, tax paying class.
Before I go (rarely cos its the pits) through the city now I plaster mud over the bigger part of the number plates both back and front. If I get physically stopped then its simply explained as I went through some dirty tracks on my travels.
All parasitic jobsworths should be put against the wall and eradicated.........
Comes to a point in the city I visit its the sheer number of the buses that are the cause of the problems! Double deckers with 2 or 3 people on for the better part of the day and all running far more regularly per hour than can be justified by passenger numbers. All subsidies should also be stopped and the fares capped nationally across all operators to make it a fair playing field in all of the cities and routes.
Will that ever happen.....Dream on!