Traffic Wardens!!!

sunama · 5 Jun 2009 at 18:34

So, today I decided to take my motorbike to work, for the first time. I attached the parking permit on the windshield, such that it wouldnt get drenched in the rain, parked and went to work. After work, I returned to find a parking ticket!!! Now, I have to go through the pullava of writing off to them, photocopying my parking permit and getting them to quash the parking ticket.

So come on people, lets hear your traffic warden/parking stories.

Robzere31 · 5 Jun 2009 at 18:38

Few weeks ago I broke down & had to push the car to the side of the road.
Only a minor problem & the car was running again 20 mins later.
It was a side road, but had yellow lines.
A warden came along & booked me for parking on yellow lines.

I appealed the ticket & had a letter back last week stating the ticket will stand as it is the drivers responsability
to make sure his vehicle is roadworthy & can complete any journey undertaken. :rolleyes:

sunama · 5 Jun 2009 at 18:46

Robzere31 said:
I appealed the ticket & had a letter back last week stating the ticket will stand ...

A lot of the time, once the ticket has been issued, it tends to stand, no matter what. Given that I had a staff parking permit, they may turn around and say that it will stand, "because it wasnt displayed properly", even though, on a motorbike, there isnt many places to display the permit and the windshield is the most obvious place.

Robzere31 · 5 Jun 2009 at 18:48

A biker friend of mine had a parking ticket overturned a while back.
He stated a ticket had been attached to the screen, but must have either blowen off or been stolen.

Scythe · 5 Jun 2009 at 18:52

Robzere31 said:
A biker friend of mine had a parking ticket overturned a while back.
He stated a ticket had been attached to the screen, but must have either blowen off or been stolen.

+1

My bike doesn't even have a windscreen/shield. Although I tend not to use a parking space, and usually tuck my bike in a space which is too small for a parking space, e.g. next to the fencing/wall.

sunama · 5 Jun 2009 at 18:54

Scythe said:
..., and usually tuck my bike in a space which is too small for a parking space, e.g. next to the fencing/wall.

Would that be on the pavement?

I'm beginning to think that its safer to park on the pavement, in quite area, up against the wall.

Jotun · 5 Jun 2009 at 18:57

I paid for a ticket and stuck it on the screen but it fell off at some point and I got a ticket. I sent an email explaining this, got a reply asking for the details of the "offence" and a scan of my ticket. I replied with theses and it was dropped. Only time I've had a ticket and it wasn't too much hassle tbh. Although I do resent the fact that I had to email a "parking engineer" :rolleyes:

RoysonBobson · 6 Jun 2009 at 00:44

Engineer should be a specifically reserved term! I am not impressed with the number of people referring to themselves as "... engineer" when they are a technician, or a parking warden, or, the worst yet: "sanitary engineer" when they really mean toilet cleaner.

Sorry for the slight derailment! I've been lucky with parking wardens so far, though I have no windscreen on my bike so I don't know what I'd do with a permit. Perhaps stick it on the fuel tank?

sunama · 6 Jun 2009 at 19:24

RoysonBobson said:
I have no windscreen on my bike so I don't know what I'd do with a permit. Perhaps stick it on the fuel tank?

I did think about that. The problem is that, when it is parked out in the open, after months of being exposed to rain/sun, etc, the permit would get wrecked/faded and eventually fall apart. The place where it is now, is just on the windshield, so if the parking warden takes more than 2 seconds to look for it, it will be obviously visible.

Another idea might be to place the permit on the fuel tank, but wrap it up in lots of sticky tape, to prevent rain from damaging it.