fine for parking adjacent to centre double white line?

londonTiger

a lot of these are just down to the copper in question. Some will get out and slap on a ticket when they are bothered, other times they'll let it slide.

Just because you haven't seen tickets issued to school run morons who live just 10 min way from the school doesnt meant it doesn't happen.

Loads of schools themselves actively discourage this and have CCTV cameras for parking installed on their property. Because it's a danger to children who cross.

forgotmyname

All you missed that vital bit of information. School run mums and dads are above the law and totally exempt from any motoring legality.

They can and will park anywhere with no consideration for anyone other than themselves.

I was delivering to a shop in an access road, 2 or 3 pallets of stuff to carry in with just me and one guy from the shop. You can enter and leave at either end but the cars park facing the shops with just the one lane to go either way.
A guy pulled up behind and sat there. After a few minutes i said im going to be quite a while. He said i will have to move soon because the school run is going to start.

Why does the school run which is just around the corner take priority over me delivering in the shops access road?

facade

You forget that when Mummy stops the X5 outside your house for 2 hours to wait for Chardonnay and Keifer to waddle the 15 yards from the school gates, she sits inside it with the engine running, so she is not parked.

There are double yellow lines outside my house to stop them blocking [STRIKE]my drive[/STRIKE] the sight lines & dropped kerbs at the corner, but it makes no difference, and they never get a ticket either.
The lines need to be red

cyclonebri1

Car_54 wrote: »

The fact that other people have committed the same offence and escaped action may be annoying, but it does not make your friend any less guilty.

What on earth did I write that you can't understand???

You totally miss the point, which in in capital letters for YOU, the law should apply to all folks and not exempt schools mums/twa!!/fookerng idiots etc etc

cyclonebri1

londonTiger wrote: »

a lot of these are just down to the copper in question. Some will get out and slap on a ticket when they are bothered, other times they'll let it slide.

Just because you haven't seen tickets issued to school run morons who live just 10 min way from the school doesnt meant it doesn't happen.

Loads of schools themselves actively discourage this and have CCTV cameras for parking installed on their property. Because it's a danger to children who cross.

Exactly, I didn't see the guy, but I'm told it was regular with a probationer so the big I am reared it's head.

This is why I found out the local traffic Sgts details and have an appointment with him tomorrow, I want to see consistency.

facade

facade wrote: »

when Mummy stops the X5 outside your house for 2 hours to wait for Chardonnay and Keifer to waddle the 15 yards from the school gates

(Quoting myself: how sad )

No I don't know why they pull up well over an hour before published end of school time either. Maybe if they arrived 10 minutes before, someone else would have their space, so Chardonnay & Keifer would have to waddle a few yards more?

Al I do know is I cant go out or come back in the car between 7:45 & 9:00 or 2:00&4:00pm on a school day as it is like the M25 in rush hour outside here.

derrick

facade wrote: »

You forget that when Mummy stops the X5 outside your house for 2 hours to wait for Chardonnay and Keifer to waddle the 15 yards from the school gates, she sits inside it with the engine running, so she is not parked.

No but she is breaking the law:-

Rule 239: -

"If you have to stop on the roadside:

you MUST switch off the engine, headlights and fog lights"


There is also a "new" law, (came in a few years ago), that states you must not leave an engine running whilst parked for longer, than 2 minutes?

This is from the Scottish Government website but the same rules apply in England, just that I cannot find the site.

LOCAL AUTHORITY POWERS TO REQUIRE DRIVERS TO SWITCH OFF ENGINES WHEN PARKED Guidance Issued Under Section 88 of the Environment Act 1995


Something from westminster.gov.uk:-
"Marshals are out on the streets talking to drivers about the impact idling has on pollution, noise and health. If a driver is asked to turn their engine off by a marshal and refuses they could be issued with a Fixed Penalty Notice of £20."


Wandsworth council:-

"It is an offence to leave your engine idling, so switch off your engine.

Any driver of a motor vehicle who unnecessarily keeps their engine running while the vehicle is parked on a road can be issued with a fixed penalty notice.

When an officer discovers a vehicle with its engine running the first action would be to advise the driver that it is an offence for the engine to be running in a stationary vehicle, and that such an offence carries a Fixed Penalty of £20.


The officer would then request the driver to turn the engine off. A Fixed Penalty Notice would only be issued if the driver refuses to turn off the engine even though requested to do so by an authorised officer. The fine must be paid within 28 days, or else it increases to £40."




.

facade

How wonderful it would be if the Parking Man actually came round on his little moped, and ticketed them all for having their engines running, then went round again and ticketed them for parking on double yellows, and then gave them a third ticket for obstructing the pavements & dropped kerbs. :T

That way The Council wouldn't be trying to sting me for a 10% increase in Council tax, whilst they make 50% cuts in the only services I actually use. :mad:

Aretnap

facade wrote: »

You forget that when Mummy stops the X5 outside your house for 2 hours to wait for Chardonnay and Keifer to waddle the 15 yards from the school gates, she sits inside it with the engine running, so she is not parked.

An urban myth. Whether or not you have your engine running has nothing to do with whether you're complying with the restriction, which in any case prohibits "stopping", not "parking".

The_law wrote:

subject to sub-paragraphs (2) to (4), no vehicle is to stop on any length of road along which the marking has been placed...

Paragraphs 2-4 then detail some exceptions which do allow you to stop, none of which hinge on whether you have your engine running (or indeed whether you have your hazard lights on, another common myth). There is an exception which allows you to stop to pick up/set down passengers though. (Link - section 9 of part 7)

cyclonebri1

facade wrote: »

How wonderful it would be if the Parking Man actually came round on his little moped, and ticketed them all for having their engines running, then went round again and ticketed them for parking on double yellows, and then gave them a third ticket for obstructing the pavements & dropped kerbs. :T

That way The Council wouldn't be trying to sting me for a 10% increase in Council tax, whilst they make 50% cuts in the only services I actually use. :mad:

Unfortunately the little man is council, this issue is Police