Parking stories in the News/media

Umkomaas

Hurley seems to be adopting the role of representative and spokesman for the industry. Leaves questions about where Pester and the BPA fit into any media profile. 

sidsnoteveret

The BBC news website has an article about the 'five minute rule' that still refers to penalties and fines. Sloppy reporting that gives the impression of some sort of pseudo authority to the IPC & BPA. Hopefully they will both be hoisted by their own petard in the not too distant future.

Kaizen2024

Tomatoes v TomAtoes.... Joe Public still thinks a Parking Charge is the tariff, so the F word gives context (in media only)

Coupon-mad

Yep I don't mind the word 'fine' when used by journalists.  It grabs attention and makes sense to the non-PPC-fighting general public.

Nice job by Simon Williams of the RAC:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0027w1w/breakfast-12022025

Skip to 07:15 (1 hour 15, just after the weather).

Coupon-mad

Private Parking mentioned on the One Show now

ChirpyChicken

Any good ?

Jenni_D

They're all rubbish. 🤦‍♀️

Oh - you meant the feature on The One Show .... 😂

patient_dream

How many times must the media expose the great parking scam before government take serious action ?

It's a scandal and a disgrace

Coupon-mad

Jenni_D said:

They're all rubbish. 🤦‍♀️

Oh - you meant the feature on The One Show .... 😂

It was stupid of the One Show to even mention the '5 minute rule change' without balancing it with the thoughts from the AA or RAC 

Coupon-mad

This from some West Sussex Facebook pages:

ASDA LANCING PARKING:

"Good afternoon,

I work at Asda Lancing and I have just spoken with my manager about the issue of the parking fines.

He has asked me to relay that this is a serious error due to a fault with the parking eye camera installation that was originally intended to tackle dangerous parking on the double yellow lines.   (Clueless, ASDA*)

He has it confirmed that the camera has now been switched off until the fix is in place which should be in the coming days. There will be no more incorrect parking fines generated from now.

He has said he will cancel all parking fines that come into store that were due to this fault. He says please DO NOT pay these fines and is keen to reassure everyone not to worry.

He has asked parking eye to recall incorrectly sent fines and that a letter is sent with an apology explaining that no further action is required.

Please can everyone inform friends/relatives who aren’t on social media, particularly the elderly as not to cause any undue alarm to them.

We sincerely apologise for the inconvenience. Thank you"


*How would that have worked?!