Parking on Taxi Rank

Umkomaas

Why are you running two separate threads on this? Please get them merged by contacting a Board Guide (Crabman, savvy or soolin) and asking one of them to merge. You can click on their names at the bottom r/h side of the first page of the forum, one back from this one.

Tilt

rahaman00 wrote: »

Ticket issued by UKPC (UK Parking control ltd) ( private c.n)
I dont drive taxi, it was normal car)

Thanks

In that case this changes things dramatically. I was advising about normal road traffic restrictions on the public highway, not on private land which seems to be what you are talking about.

There is no such thing a a restricted bay (in the normal sense) on private land. It's all down to contractual law which is purely a civil matter (i.e. a debt).

What you have been given is a 'speculative invoice' for breaching the 'terms' of the car park. This can only be enforced via the small claims court so I would advise you use the appeal process stated on the invoice. Should they dismiss your 'appeal', they must provide a reference so you can further use the POPLA appeal process.

The_Deep

UKPC are fraudsters, read these

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11858473/Parking-firm-UKPC-admits-faking-tickets-to-fine-drivers.html

http://parking-prankster.blogspot.com/

Complain to your MP

It is the will of Parliament that these scammers be put out of business. Hopefully that will take place in the near future. The Bill has passed through the HOC without hitch, and goes to the Lords soon. In the meantime involve your MP, the poor dears are buckling under the weight of complaints about these scammers. Read this one which I wrote earlier

This is an entirely unregulated industry which is scamming the public with inflated claims for minor breaches of alleged contracts for alleged parking offences, aided and abetted by a handful of low-rent solicitors. Is has been suggested by an MP that some of these companies may have connections to organised crime.

Parking Eye, CPM, Smart, (especially Smart}, and others have already been named and shamed in the House of Commons as have Gladstones Solicitors, and BW Legal, (these two law firms take hundreds of these cases to court each week), hospital car parks and residential complex tickets have been especially mentioned. They lose most of them, and have been reported to the regulatory authority by an M.P. for unprofessional conduct

The problem has become so widespread that MPs have agreed to enact a Bill to regulate these scammers.

Sir Greg Knight's Private Members Bill to curb the excesses, and perhaps close down, some of these companies passed its Third Reading in late November, and, with a fair wind, will become Law next year.

All three readings are available to watch on the internet, (some 6-7 hours), and published in Hansard. MPs have an extremely low opinion of the industry. Many are complaining that they are becoming overwhelmed by complaints from members of the public. Add to their burden, complain in the most robust terms about the scammers.

Johno100

Coupon-mad wrote: »

Answer - unless you are a taxi or the bay is outside operating hours (see the sign, many are 24/7 so no times would be mentioned) you CANNOT stop there at all.

Just as you can't stop in bus stops during hours of operation either...

Rant mode:

Why do people think these are laybys for dropping people off, when they can LEGALLY stop on any double/single yellow (as long as there are no kerb blips), probably less than 10 yards away?

Stop on yellow lines to drop off or pick people up - NEVER what looks like a convenient 'layby' for taxis/buses!

Rant over.

Perhaps because it is preferable to holding up traffic on the main carriageway and causing congestion? If no bus is being inconvenienced then I can't see the problem.

Rant Mode

What's with this new fad of many councils of filling in bus laybys and having buses stop on the carriageway, total madness:mad: