double yellow lines

TS7 · 12 Feb 2012 at 10:44

Yes they can. If avoiding the penalties for parking on double yellows was as simple as parking on the pavement, everyone would be doing it.

While I'm in this thread, I have a question. Is it possible to ring traffic wardens yourself and report a parking violation? Reason I ask is I've seen a car, in a very quiet part of town which was parked on a pavement so wide that you could erect a house on it, being ticketed by a warden on a scooter. I can only assume he was called as it is a very unlikely area for wardens to hang out in.

4T5 · 12 Feb 2012 at 12:17

Not sure if serious ??!!?? :confused:

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If you are.

R0Z4G · 12 Feb 2012 at 12:35

I am being serious Carlisle is a pain in the arse for parking and I was only there for a few hours ive had so many times doors have been opened on my cars and since buying a ST I do not want that to happen again. I am going to leave the car at home and get buses to town as its just not worth it!
Ill have a look at the ticket but I am definitely going to appeal against it

CaptainRAVE · 12 Feb 2012 at 13:18

Appeal on what grounds?

Will Gill · 12 Feb 2012 at 15:01

I'm afraid ignorance isn't an appealable excuse

Hades · 12 Feb 2012 at 15:27

I'm still not understanding what grounds the appeal would be? You tried to avoid a ticket on the yellows by parking completely on the pavement? Unless that part of the pavement is private property then it sounds like they have you bang to rights.

Kenai · 12 Feb 2012 at 15:30

"I am writing to appeal this ticket on the basis that it's quite hard to park around here so I thought i'd just leave it on the pavement for a while instead"

Not sure it's likely to work myself.

One · 12 Feb 2012 at 15:36

If a car isn't on the road at all then it's not parked on double yellow lines, it's as simple as that. Could still be an offence but it won't be because of the double yellow lines.

I would find out what the penalty for parking on a public pavement is before appealing this, as the penalty could be greater than the one you have received.

Basher · 12 Feb 2012 at 16:50

desires said:
If a car isn't on the road at all then it's not parked on double yellow lines, it's as simple as that.

Sorry, but you're wrong. The double yellows still apply if you're parked on the pavement.

The Highway Code said:
Waiting restrictions indicated by yellow lines apply to the carriageway, pavement and verge.

[TW]Fox · 12 Feb 2012 at 16:55

desires said:
If a car isn't on the road at all then it's not parked on double yellow lines, it's as simple as that.

So simple that you don't appear to get it..

Vonhelmet · 12 Feb 2012 at 16:56

Also from the highway code, though not as absolute as the above...

244

You MUST NOT park partially or wholly on the pavement in London, and should not do so elsewhere unless signs permit it. Parking on the pavement can obstruct and seriously inconvenience pedestrians, people in wheelchairs or with visual impairments and people with prams or pushchairs.

[Law GL(GP)A sect 15]

Jay794 · 12 Feb 2012 at 16:58

Actually I don't think they do, you shouldn't get fined for parking on double yellows, because you haven't parked on the lines themselves, what you will get fined for is obstructing the pavement

Vonhelmet · 12 Feb 2012 at 17:02

I imagine if you did try to contest it then they'd fairly quickly find another offence to smack you down with.

djkav · 12 Feb 2012 at 17:29

CaptainRAVE said:
Appeal on what grounds?

You can actually question, if the traffic warden's jurisdiction extends beyond the road. As far as I'm aware, and have been told by many police, parking on the pavement is an obstruction and police matter. Its not a parking violation.

Basher · 12 Feb 2012 at 18:48

djkav said:
You can actually question, if the traffic warden's jurisdiction extends beyond the road. As far as I'm aware, and have been told by many police, parking on the pavement is an obstruction and police matter. Its not a parking violation.

Of course it's a parking violation, why wouldn't it be :confused:

mattyprice4004 · 12 Feb 2012 at 23:34

Stupid is calling, it's for you OP.

atpbx · 13 Feb 2012 at 06:00

The only way you get away with parking on double yellows is if you are delivering, if a Warden is stupid enough to ticket you for this you will only get off it if the time on your POD is spot on.

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Sin_Chase · 13 Feb 2012 at 06:10

Jay794 said:
Actually I don't think they do, you shouldn't get fined for parking on double yellows, because you haven't parked on the lines themselves, what you will get fined for is obstructing the pavement

Everyone whines when common sense does not prevail and the time it ACTUALLY DOES people are trying to throw it away and manipulate the letters of the law/highway code to get out of a fine.

He parked on the pavement for crying out loud, he deserves every fine he gets be it for Double Yellows, Obstruction or quite frankly being Dense! Does it really mater what it is for, he is getting slapped for it anyway!

SKYNHEDD · 13 Feb 2012 at 11:14

Brookert said:
or a brake fluid change with someone that isn't brake fluid........

Oh wait a minute!

Guess what Einstein, a lot of vehicles use mineral oil for the braking system instead of the traditional brake fluid.

Instead of people jumping in to **** off the OP, why cant we just try and get to the bottom of the issue...

djkav said:
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.

Suggests the OP is entirely correct.