Pavement parking leading to £70 fine

greatgimpo

Gloomendoom wrote: »

Perhaps a polite note would have been a less Neanderthal response.

I put a polite note on every pavement-parked car in my village one night, the parish chairman received complaints and asked me to stop leaving notes on the offending cars.

parking_question_chap

Car_54 wrote: »

Causing an unnecesssary obstruction is an offence - no need for yellow lines.

How can it be proved which car was at fault?

Car_54

parking_question_chap wrote: »

How can it be proved which car was at fault?

They're both causing the obstruction.

Johno100

Car_54 wrote: »

They're both causing the obstruction.

But if you were the first to park there and the road opposite was clear when you did, how can you be guilty of an offence.

facade

Car_54 wrote: »

They're both causing the obstruction.

There was a post on here a while back from someone aggrieved because he parked his car in an empty street, and came back to a ticket* for obstruction because someone later parked opposite him.

*or his car was removed/set on fire/crushed I can't recall.

roddydogs

Of course another problem with this is just who will enforce it? In large areas of London their are parking restrictions in place, so enforcement is already there.
Outside of shopping centres, where there are no restrictions their are thousands of miles of roads, what council is going to employ loads of mobile enforcers just to catch the odd pavement parker?

Car_54

Johno100 wrote: »

But if you were the first to park there and the road opposite was clear when you did, how can you be guilty of an offence.

The road is obstructed. Both cars are causing the obstruction. Both drivers are guilty.

This may be tough on the guy who got there first,, but life isn't fair.