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Just looking at a post on a local Facebook page that shows a traffic warden pull up on white zig zags next to a crossing, get out and ticket a car on the opposite side of the road ( parked in a loading bay).
Now , normally I don’t have any issues with people just doing their job ( I’ve had a few tickets and accept it’s my fault if I get one )
But apparently this bloke goes out of his way to ticket people ( and I am a little biased,as I once parked opposite my house to unload some heavy gear, on a double yellow line with the front wheels just over into the residents permit parking. Rather than give me £50 ticket for the double lines, he gave me a £70 for parking on resident. I was parked up with boot open too , as was my front door. Bar steward must have been hiding as I didn’t see him )
Anyhow, I know they are allowed to park on double yellows etc whilst carrying out their duties, but are they allowed to park on white zig zags. Anyone else would get £100 fine and 3 points
Petty I know , but I would like to repay the twunt for the past . Who would i send the pictures too ?😁
Council warden, complain to the council, cc'ed to the local paper.
I'm pretty intolerant of zig-zag abusers.
Ironically, if you really were just loading, you’d have been fine on the double yellows (Rule 247, & the Road Markings section) unless there were other markings or signs.
Ironically, if you really were just loading, you’d have been fine on the double yellows (Rule 247, & the Road Markings section) unless there were other markings or signs.
Ah, that’s why he went for parking in the resident permit option then. What grips my shit about the whole thing was I was only parked there because there were no spaces in my road, as they were mostly filled with cars from the permit road as they didn’t want to pay for one .
So glad when I moved to a house with a driveway 😁
My local authority issues fines for parking in marked bays, but tends not to for zigzags or double yellows. I think this is totally arse about face, but what can you do? I have a photo somewhere of a Cambridge parking warden cycling merrily by a van parked on double yellows straddling a narrow pavement. As far as I know they’re instructed to focus on residents parking bays and paid parking bays and turn a blind eye to dangerous and antisocial parking such as on double yellows, on pavements, and on zigzags or junctions.
My local authority issues fines for parking in marked bays, but tends not to for zigzags or double yellows.
Someone told me once that it was much easier to ticket someone wrongly parked in a marked bay that it was for double yellows. Can't remember the details, maybe one was a parking warden matter, the other a police matter. Seems to be the case round here. See quite a few cars in bays with tickets, don't recall ever seeing anyone done for double yellows.
My local authority issues fines for parking in marked bays, but tends not to for zigzags or double yellows. I think this is totally arse about face, but what can you do?
zig zigs are not something that most (all?) council enforcement officers can “police”.
this bloke goes out of his way to ticket people
Isn't that what he's supposed to do?
Turn it around, the "I'll only be a couple of minutes" brigade grip my shit. I live near a chip shop, come lunchtime or teatime the self-entitled cockbags are out in force. On double yellows on a bend, half up on the pavement meaning I've got to push a pram into oncoming traffic to get past. I despise them to the core of my being, there's a free car park like two blocks away the lazy bastards.
As far as I know they’re instructed to focus on
How would you know that?
How would you know that?
I had a conversation about it with a parking warden one day. I think he was bemused to be praised and thanked for his efforts, and commiserated with my frustration that he wasn’t ticketing a van he’d just passed parked on double yellows.
I'm not sure council enforcement staff have an exzemption for the zig zags at crossing. Looks to be only police fire, ambulance.
"when the vehicle is being used for police, fire brigade or ambulance purposes."
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2400/regulation/21/made
If correct is it 3pts for parking there?
I object to the warden commiting a more dangerous offence of obstructing the crossing to ticket a less dangerous one in a loading bay.