Yellow lines and parking fines!

Tallulah_Chicken

Hello all,

Just to make my Monday complete, I returned to my car this evening and found that I had been given a fixed penalty notice by a West Yorks Police traffic warden for 'waiting in a position where waiting was prohibited'. I was more than a little surprised, as although when I looked after the event there was some evidence that at one time or another there had been yellow lines on the road, these were almost completely gone. It is impossible to tell whether there were one or two lines. There were a couple of 'no waiting' signs up a distance away, but in my rush to get the train/monday morning bluriness I hadn't seen them. I am convinced that I read somewhere that the lines had to be visible to be valid (i.e. not just the little signs 10 feet up a lamp post) but despite having trawled the internet can't find any confirmation of this.

It would appear that in order to appeal the parking ticket I have to go to court, so I need to be pretty certain of my ground! Any help would be very much appreciated!

Mr_Skint_2

Yep gotta be visible unbroken and have a T-bar at each end
or they are not correct lines....

Take a piccy of em...

wazza

it is correct to say the lines should be clearly visible and continous. take a photo and appeal.

Queenie

It won't have come from the Police ... it will have come from the Council.

In the circs you describe ... I would appeal!

Good luck!

Pennywise

I believe that the old "yellow line with T bar" rule is now sadly out of date.

Now the local councils are responsible for parking, there are at least two ways of getting a fine where no yellow lines are visible. Firstly is in designated parking bays - usually dotted white line around space(s) - parking restrictions are shown on small signs on nearby posts.

Secondly, more serious and less obvious are designated restricted areas. We have one "area" nearby which is called something like a "homezone area", where there are large "no waiting" signs (they don't say that but instead are the Highway Code illustration of a no waiting sign - http://www.highwaycode.gov.uk/sign061.htm) - the signs are placed at all conceivable entrance points to the area. Within the area there are no yellow lines at all (all been removed) and there are occasional parking bays with sign nearby. Parking, waiting or delivering is only allowed in the designated bays and the council parking wardens are doing great business because people are parking in the zone simply because the yellow lines have gone.

Very sneaky - especially using the Highway Code no waiting sign instead of having a sign actually saying "no parking except in designated bays". I'm sure they've planned it that way to get the maximum amount of parking fine money.

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