Traffic wardens

Dangee · 15 Jan 2021

Just got a ticket!! 1st one for nearly two years.....Gutted.
Are they essential workers?????
I can understand them working on high streets or ticketing cars causing an obstruction but on a quiet residential st with ample spaces available????? ******s.

Scarlet Pimpernel · 15 Jan 2021

Then you should have parked in one of those ample spaces.
What possessed you to park somewhere that you might be liable for a ticket when there were ample spaces available?

Old Salt · 15 Jan 2021

Perhaps they are working from home in that street

bernardgreen · 15 Jan 2021

Could it be that there were ample spaces because of the Parking Wardens deterring people from parking.

johnny2007 · 15 Jan 2021

Without them the council would lose a good chunk of their budget.
Not their fault.
It's the system that is designed against the motorists who are milked to the bones at every opportunity.

charliegolf · 15 Jan 2021

If it was 'designed' against the motorist, they'd reduce the number of legal spaces, forcing drivers to illegally park even more.

Dangee · 15 Jan 2021

Bob. When I say ample spaces, they were all permit bays. (No pay bays around). So wasn’t preventing a resident from parking close to home.
Doh.....
The question was..... is it essential.
In the 1st lockdown, they weren’t issuing tickets. What’s the difference?

motorbiking · 15 Jan 2021

check the sign, the paint, check the rules and appeal if the ticket isn't valid.

Scarlet Pimpernel · 15 Jan 2021

Dangee said:
Bob. When I say ample spaces, they were all permit bays. (No pay bays around). So wasn’t preventing a resident from parking close to home.
Doh.....
The question was..... is it essential.
In the 1st lockdown, they weren’t issuing tickets. What’s the difference?

If they're restricted then they're not available.

Dangee said:
with ample spaces available?????

Your two points in your OP had equal emphasis.

What you could have said, is that you got a ticket but there was nowhere else to park.

Dangee · 15 Jan 2021

Weirdo

mitch66 · 15 Jan 2021

Dangee said:
Weirdo

He is a bit from time to time imo but on this....weighed you up and you is found wanting

Dangee · 15 Jan 2021

Well I’m just gutted I let them get me.
Essential workers my arse.

Brigadier · 15 Jan 2021

Well, I got home to find some racked-off old van parked in my space. I had to park a way away, and lug my shopping too.
Thankfully, the selfish **** had been ticketed

fillyboy · 15 Jan 2021

Dangee said:
Well I’m just gutted I let them get me.
Essential workers my arse.

Working in London as you do it amazes me you could go a couple of years without a ticket. Westminster council collared me about 4 times in 5 years. Most of the time I had a daily permit to park in resident spaces but if going there just to look at something, very few parking meters, even fewer pay and display.

noseall · 15 Jan 2021

Brigadier said:
Thankfully, the selfish **** had been ticketed

There are some selfish people about. Altruism is dead in the South-East.

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