Parking Ticket in a layby

Le_Kirk

Same advice as on your duplicate thread on the parking sub-forum, take it to Pepipoo.

rms22

user1977 said:

rms22 said:

user1977 said:

The yellow lines restriction applies to the whole highway on that side of the road - yours is no more valid an argument than the people who think if they park entirely on the pavement they're in the clear!

I think you'll find that if you read my OP I was merely asking the question - not arguing - as is often the case on the Internet people seem predisposed to wading in with an argument against a question and not an actual argument!

Apologies - in which case the answers to your questions are "no" and "no".

Or to look at it another way, do you think somebody would take the time to travel out there issuing tickets if they weren't sure that they were valid?

Well someone took the time to issue a private parking ticket against me last month, taking multiple photos of my car, which I successfully won as I got the ticket cancelled and an apology from the parking company on behalf of their employee's incompetence - hence me asking the question, in other words, some people aren't capable of doing their job properly.

cymruchris

Having seen the location and the clear double yellow lines, it's not somewhere I would have parked. As you say there are quite a few laybys in the immediate vicinity with no restriction, were they all full when you arrived? I imagine this little strip is deemed too narrow, or too close to a junction or something which is why they've double yellowed it.  It's a public road, and a real double-yellow - so don't think you'll have a leg to stand on in terms of any appeal. (As my view anyway) 

RobM99

The yellow lines have a 90° stop at the end - doesn't that imply the 'no parking' has ended?

cymruchris

RobM99 said:

The yellow lines have a 90° stop at the end - doesn't that imply the 'no parking' has ended?

I would say so at that point yes, but then beyond the line ending, you come under the highway code rule of not parking within 10m of a junction, so the OP couldn't have parked just around the corner once the lines had finished. Having not been there to measure it - it's possible that part of that layby falls within 10m of the junction anyway, and that's why they've double yellowed the whole stretch. 

TadleyBaggie

RobM99 said:

The yellow lines have a 90° stop at the end - doesn't that imply the 'no parking' has ended?

Not sure where you are looking, but the section the GSV that the OP posted looks continuous to me.

RobM99

TadleyBaggie said:

RobM99 said:

The yellow lines have a 90° stop at the end - doesn't that imply the 'no parking' has ended?

Not sure where you are looking, but the section the GSV that the OP posted looks continuous to me.

Here's what I see.

Boat_to_Bolivia

RobM99 said:

TadleyBaggie said:

RobM99 said:

The yellow lines have a 90° stop at the end - doesn't that imply the 'no parking' has ended?

Not sure where you are looking, but the section the GSV that the OP posted looks continuous to me.

Here's what I see.

That's not where the OP was parked. Check the OP's posts for the actual link.

cymruchris

From their link - I think they parked here...

Herzlos

user1977 said:

rms22 said:

user1977 said:

The yellow lines restriction applies to the whole highway on that side of the road - yours is no more valid an argument than the people who think if they park entirely on the pavement they're in the clear!

I think you'll find that if you read my OP I was merely asking the question - not arguing - as is often the case on the Internet people seem predisposed to wading in with an argument against a question and not an actual argument!

Apologies - in which case the answers to your questions are "no" and "no".

Or to look at it another way, do you think somebody would take the time to travel out there issuing tickets if they weren't sure that they were valid?

There's a whole industry based around issuing tickets that aren't valid, but that one doesn't seem to be worth the hassle for a parking scammer so I'm assuming it was issued by a council.

OP - that's not a layby, you've just parked on the verge on a double yellow line. Did you manage to get the car all the way off the road or were you still overlapping the line?

In any case, I think that if it came from a council that you're best just paying it.