What's the issue everyone has with parking tickets?

Quentin

Deastons wrote: »

I'm not too au fait with the issues with private parking companies.....

Worth reminding any Newbies reading this thread and concerned at the tone of his topic that this is the OP's introduction to his thread

Whatever was his motive in posting this thread we won't know, but subsequent posts from him do confirm this initial admission of "ignorance"!

Don't be concerned about his prolonging the agony of his thread!

nosferatu1001

Im just surprised theyre still posting

As I said, either a shill for the parking companies, or just plain ignorant with no real understanding.

Quentin

OP's previously started threads provide a clue!

Eg "Is it really necessary to service a boiler"/",why aren't cars speeds limited" etc

Deastons

Umkomaas wrote: »

You seem to have discounted (or through sheer lack of any understanding) the possibility that the original granting of planning permission for the supermarket included the stipulation that the car park was also for use for people patronising any other establishments in the town centre. It happens.

No, a sign says only for Waitrose customers.

Deastons

Quentin wrote: »

OP's previously started threads provide a clue!

Eg "Is it really necessary to service a boiler"etc

You've got me. The link between parking and boilers is so obvious.

Try again.

Quentin

Just trying to figure out your motivation for starting this thread

nosferatu1001

Or pointing out their lack of understanding seems to cover more than one topic.

Deaston - you appear to have ignore teh other reasonable solutions, that dont involve a PPC trying to defruad people by
- forging timestamps on photos
- misrepresenting keeper liability
- belonging to an ATA that runs the literal *definition* of a kangaroo court

and so on.

Give up. Youre either a shill, or have no clue what youre talking about. Which is it?

Umkomaas

Deastons wrote: »

No, a sign says only for Waitrose customers.

Of course it does, but it doesn't make it right. I'd rather check the planning application and approval.

Snakes_Belly

"So they're issuing tickets where they shouldn't be? Surely the onus is on the PPC to prove you've done wrong. If they can't prove it, they can't insist you pay the fine. So where's the problem? "

The problem is that even if a motorist had done nothing wrong such as a ticket that has not stuck to the windscreen they are put through a process which involves time spent in useless appeals and harassment from debt collectors before they even get to the court process. Can you tell me what they have done to justify all this harassment? It needs someone with some common sense such as a real independent body to say "this person has bought a ticket fair enough".

What about the nurses who have stayed with patients in recovery and have received a ticket for overstaying? These PPC's will even pursue the estates of the deceased.

No one is saying that parking should be a free for all but the current system is seriously flawed.

Deastons

Snakes_Belly wrote: »

"So they're issuing tickets where they shouldn't be? Surely the onus is on the PPC to prove you've done wrong. If they can't prove it, they can't insist you pay the fine. So where's the problem? "

The problem is that even if a motorist had done nothing wrong such as a ticket that has not stuck to the windscreen they are put through a process which involves time spent in useless appeals and harassment from debt collectors before they even get to the court process. Can you tell me what they have done to justify all this harassment?

What about the nurses who have stayed with patients in recovery and have received a ticket for overstaying? These PPC's will even pursue the estates of the deceased.

No one is saying that parking should be a free for all but the current system is seriously flawed.

Ah, I see. Thanks for explaining it so well. I honestly thought it was people just bitter about being caught out and trying to find a way around paying the fee. Like those people who claim they can park on double yellows because the paint isn't quite correct. They're forgetting that the double yellows are there for a reason, not just so the council can have a laugh.