^^^Well said^^^

OP, please don't mix content, this thread is about parking tickets.

If the OP wants to mix content. Then they can.

It just looks like you're trying to get into an arguement when most of the thread was about parking tickets.

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Well thank you for contribution, moderation it seems.

We spend in excess of £35-40k per annum on parking tickets in and around Central London - due to the nature of product which we deliver we have to park as close to the client as possible. Every single ticket we receive is challenged to the point were 1 or 2 of the boroughs have given us parking dispensations.

 

Parking and raking in cash (despite the fact local authorities are not supposed to profit from parking fines) is on the increase.

 

The latest advert on LBC features a "Painter and Decorator" who tells us all that "Loading Bays are for the purpose of Loading and Unloading Heavy Items and not for use by private cars."

 

Bo77ocks!   Loading Bays are for the purposes of Loading and Unloading, regardless of what vehicle you drive or what weight you carry.   At Christmas, a Sales Rep delivering a couple of boxes of Christmas cheer to a client is perfectly entitled to pull up at the kerb if  loading/unloading is permitted, provided he only stops for as long as it takes to hand his boxes over.

It's a public forum, there is always a minimum of two different points of view. For example:

 

Got caught speeding?

 

1) Bloody revenue making machines, they should be banned!

2) Well don't speed then and you won't get caught.

 

Got a parking ticket?

 

1) Bloody jobsworths, have they got nothing else better to do!?

2) Park properly then!

 

You can't really start a thread like this then get in a huff if someone tells you to slow down or read a sign.

Exactly, people would just be abusing it and leaving their car for longer but they should at least put something like this on the sign:

Up to 30min - free (obtain free ticket from machine)

1 hour - £1.30

2 hour - £2.40 and so on

To answer both of these. London has cameras that automatically ticket you once over the time. Up to 30 mins free. Nothing else after that so most 99% would see free in London and have reasonable cause to believe it's free and monitored by cameras. Thanks

It's a public forum, there is always a minimum of two different points of view. For example:

Got caught speeding?

1) Bloody revenue making machines, they should be banned!

2) Well don't speed then and you won't get caught.

Got a parking ticket?

1) Bloody jobsworths, have they got nothing else better to do!?

2) Park properly then!

You can't really start a thread like this then get in a huff if someone tells you to slow down or read a sign.

Not sure where I got in a huff, nor have I started to mix things up?? Very odd.

I named this parking ticket fail, meaning I failed. I didn't read the sign! Not parking ticket wardens are out to get me and I love speeding on A roads why have I been ticketed. Calm down lads it's only the Internet.

Wasn't aimed at you, it was actually in your defence