Traffic Wardens

sturll

Any man who can give someone a £60 fine a week before christmas fior a minor parking offence is a coward on a power trip in my opinion.

Neil_B

I spend a fair amount of time assisting people to appeal various parking tickets.
I have never taken a view such as yours though.
For all the poor behaviour of CEOs I've seen and the intransigence of Councils through the appeals procedure I will never look at or speak to a person i don't know with any bad assumptions in my head. There are good and bad in all things.

If my local CEOs do not issue tickets because it is coming up to Christmas (when are we starting from incidentally you didn't say? January?) then i will not be able to park in the resident spaces outside my own house.

a_sav

It made me smile observing a Parking Attendant park his moped on a double yellow and write tickets out, saw this happen at 2 seperate locations!! Talk about double stds.

sturll

a_sav wrote: »

It made me smile observing a Parking Attendant park his moped on a double yellow and write tickets out, saw this happen at 2 seperate locations!! Talk about double stds.

I often go for a swim before work and the car park i park at is free between 6pm and 8am. I always ensure im back before 8am but there is usually 2 traffic wardens stood by the ticket machine waiting for it to turn to 8 so they can go and ticket the cars still there.

Neil: Let me explain, i was listening to Radio 2 yesterday and a woman called and explained how she had parked her car (unbeknown to her illegally) As she parked she saw a traffic Warden across the road who watched her park. When she left the car he came over and gave her a ticket. Why wouldn't he simply tell her she couldn't park there in the first place?

My local paper loves stories of Traffic Wardens and some of the things i read are ridiculous - So, whatever puff of smoke you like to blow behind them it doesn't wash with me, or indeed the majority of drivers in the UK.
I'm sure i read some where that being a traffic Warden in terms of violence is one of Britains most Dangerous jobs? Is it any wonder.

Neil_B

a_sav wrote: »

It made me smile observing a Parking Attendant park his moped on a double yellow and write tickets out, saw this happen at 2 seperate locations!! Talk about double stds.

They are exempt while performing their duties. Theoretically if they also caused an obstruction by parking stupidly - zig-zags etc then a passing plod could issue an FPN.

Neil_B

sturll wrote: »

I often go for a swim before work and the car park i park at is free between 6pm and 8am. I always ensure im back before 8am but there is usually 2 traffic wardens stood by the ticket machine waiting for it to turn to 8 so they can go and ticket the cars still there.

Neil: Let me explain, i was listening to Radio 2 yesterday and a woman called and explained how she had parked her car (unbeknown to her illegally) As she parked she saw a traffic Warden across the road who watched her park. When she left the car he came over and gave her a ticket. Why wouldn't he simply tell her she couldn't park there in the first place?

My local paper loves stories of Traffic Wardens and some of the things i read are ridiculous - So, whatever puff of smoke you like to blow behind them it doesn't wash with me, or indeed the majority of drivers in the UK.
I'm sure i read some where that being a traffic Warden in terms of violence is one of Britains most Dangerous jobs? Is it any wonder.

There are lots of funny stories. A pic on the web somewhere shows a Council contractor fixing up a new parking restriction sign and the second it was up a CEO issued a PCN - to him!

On your R2 story. Yep appalling. CEO failed to follow DfT Guidance which suggests exactly as you did - approach and inform. Not Statute though.

I still say though that there is good and bad in everything and i will never pre-judge someone just because of a particular role they perform.

lonestar1

sturll wrote: »

...... she had parked her car (unbeknown to her illegally)

Presumably she also didnt know if she had parked legally either ? So they both kind of negate each other

roddydogs

So cause its Christmas--people should be able to park anywhere and not get a ticket?......................so why queue up to pay in a car park, like most people................

sturll

roddydogs wrote: »

So cause its Christmas--people should be able to park anywhere and not get a ticket?......................so why queue up to pay in a car park, like most people................

Because thats exactly what i wrote.

:rolleyes:

sturll

roddydogs wrote: »

SILLLY______BILLY ..................WOOOOOOOOOOO

Oh dear, your immaturity and willingness to make yourself look like a complete tit is astounding.

The very fact you can't even spell the word 'silly' sums you up.

roddydogs

sturll wrote: »

Because thats exactly what i wrote.

:rolleyes:

The play what i wrote?