double yellow lines

R0Z4G

R0Z4G

R0Z4G

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Right I need to know the legal stuff on this.
My car was parked on a pavement which people could still get by and it was no on the road at all obviously the road is double yellow lines

now I have got a ticket and I have been told that because im on the pavement and not on the road its a policing matter and a parking warden can not give me a ticket.

is this true ?
 
R0Z4G said:
Right I need to know the legal stuff on this.
My car was parked on a pavement which people could still get by and it was no on the road at all obviously the road is double yellow lines

now I have got a ticket and I have been told that because im on the pavement and not on the road its a policing matter and a parking warden can not give me a ticket.

is this true ?
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The double yellow lines still apply if you're parked on the pavement next to them. Not sure why it would be a policing issue, though.
 
you can't park on the pavement to avoid double yells end of, council parking wardens can still give you a ticket for parking on the pavement
 
Reminds me of Lincoln Uni, there's some student accommodation very close to the uni, a massively long road that has double yellows all the way down it (don't know why, maybe Lincoln council wants to charge students with cars or something)

But everyone who parks down there, me included used to park on the pavement, so the road was clear.

It a weird twisted way, it makes sense, you want to keep the road clear for cars, so you park on the pavement.

Learned very quickly what time the traffic wardens used to arrive.

Literally, some days it was > lecture over, leg it to the car to see the traffic warden ticketing 2 or 3 cars behind you lol.

But I doubt the reason was to avoid double yellows, they just do you for obstructing the pavement
 
R0Z4G said:
now I have got a ticket and I have been told that because im on the pavement and not on the road its a policing matter and a parking warden can not give me a ticket.

is this true ?
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Technically this is true. Parking on the path is an obstruction, rather than a parking violation. This would be a police matter.

I drive cash-in-transit armoured vehicles. Due to my job, I also know a lot of police. I have been told by many of them to park on the pavement, to avoid getting tickets from jumped up parking wardens. They said that vehicles on the pavement is a police matter, and they just ignore our vehicles on the pavement.
 
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Instead of trying to find a loophole to wangle yourself out of a ticket, how about using that energy to not make such idiotic mistakes in the first place?
 
R0Z4G said:
Right I need to know the legal stuff on this.
My car was parked on a pavement which people could still get by and it was no on the road at all obviously the road is double yellow lines

now I have got a ticket and I have been told that because im on the pavement and not on the road its a policing matter and a parking warden can not give me a ticket.

is this true ?
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Whats the offence code? Have they made any errors in issuing the ticket?
 
Only thing that can top this now is the post where someone uses cooking oil to top up their engine oil :)
 
i have seen a warden ticketing a Ferrari that was parked on the grass. the car wasnt blocking anything. not sure what road markings were on the road
 
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