Date on parking ticket

RenegMC

nobblyned wrote: »

Confused by your letter, what's signage got to do with it?

He parked on the pavement, what did he expect? A sign saying "Don't park on the pavement"?

The point I was making regarding the signing, was the inconsistent and unenforced legislation. Also to someone who doesn't consult the highway code on a park by park basis, who has never been pulled up on this contravention before, rather than having it buried away in page 3, section 12, paragraph 5.a or whatever, they can't expect it to be known without signs...

On a road next to this, which is a wider road, and also a through road as opposed to a dead end, is a section where there is a sign clearly stating that parking up on the kerb was NOT allowed, with multiple cars parked up on the kerb!

I don't see why we're being hit with a £50 fine, whilst those people, who are direct contravention of a sign that clearly states you cannot park up on a kerb, as opposed to a one line mention in a highway code somewhere that the average person doesn't consult before going anywhere aren't being fined. They're parking there longer term as well, whilst my dad was only unloading... It's inconsistent.

You can mock the appeal letter if you want, but like I've said, I don't mind fighting this with the council and giving them a bit of a headache. If they want to take half of my dads weekly pension, then they should earn it.

Meepster

Just because someone else doesn't get fined for doing something, it doesn't mean that you can't get fined for doing it. Yes, it's inconsistant, yes, it's unfair. But that's the law...

It's like being on a motorway, doing 90mph, when it is obvious other cars are doing the same speed. You get pulled over and get a ticket for it. Your defence can't be that others were doing it and didn't get a ticket, so you shouldn't either. You have no defence (unless you are bursting for a pee and happen to be a footballer/manager)...

RenegMC

See how is that right? Maybe nothing changes because there are too many people with a 'well thats just how it is' mentality?

I know full well that nothing will ever change, let alone getting this ticket quashed; the councils make far too much money out of it. I still intend to fight it.

Habermas was right - by empowering the masses to select an elite that will govern the masses, the power is ultimately taken away from those who provide it.

Thanks again.

Coblcris

mwilletts wrote: »

Unsigned restriction? Of course it's unsigned. You can't park on a pavement and expect NOT to get a ticket if seen. It's in the highway code! Just think about the poor old dear in a wheelchair, who has to go on the road to get past THAT car and then gets run over by a bus. THAT's why you can't park there...

Irrespective of the issues around this PCN I have to point out the Highway Code is most definitely NOT a statement of the law. So it is false reasoning to base any argument as to the rights and wrongs of any specific contravention on the contents of the Highway Code. You have to go to statute.