Parkng fines - Tickets whilst doing highways work

[clive]

Hi Guys
Has any one got any experience of receiving parking tickets whilst on highways maintenance work. I work for a company that undertakes work for Cambridge City Council and whilst undertaking inspection work to the highways drainage I got a parking ticket. Does any one know the were I stand before I appeal. To what, if any are you exempt from parking fines when working on the highways?

Many thanks in advance

[Dave_L]

I would always speak to the Parking Section before starting work.

When we havn't been able to do so I've found the parking hitlers 'helpful'. We've been given the number to call and speak to the bloke-in-charge.

But, not all are the same.

[rab1]

we once had 5 tickets issued to one of the 40ft wagons while unloading as he sat over 5 bays, i`ve no abjection to people being done for illegal parking etc, but this was taking the piss.

PS, anyone who parks in a disabled space who is not disabled. we should be allowed to hit them on the legs with a hammer until they are disabled. my mothers registered disabled (no blood flow in her legs) can walk but not very far. took her to the shops on Friday, 4 disabled spaces all taken by ignorant little sh1ts. these badges are given for a reason, not because disabled people are to lazy to walk to the shops.

rant over

[Tony McC]

I'm sure I've told this tale before, but I got a parking ticket while actually installing the yellow lines!

We were laying block pavers in the centre of Preston, and using a double row of yellow colourtops to form the double yellows within what would become a bus lane. We had the van parked on the work completed that morning, so we had easy access to the tools and could have the music blaring forth. I went to get summat from the van and found a ticket stuck under the windscreen wiper - the pathetic specimen that had issued it obviously didn't have the balls to come to the back of the van and talk to us.

I challenged the ticket by complaining to the Chief Constable (although I doubt it was actually him that dealt wit it, but that's who, apparently, you have to address) on the grounds that, as I was laying the blocks, and, as I hadn't yet been paid for them, and that they had not been officially "vested" to Preston or Lancashire County Council, there were technically *my* blocks and the ticket-happy twit had no jurisdiction in issuing a ticket.

I received an officious reply stating that, after reviewing the case, they would make an exception in this case and cancel the ticket. How very generous of them!

I was secretly hoping for my day in court where I could go all Perry Mason and make them look like the useless twonks they are, but it wasn't to be.

[clive]

Thanks for the input guys. I'll have to plead my case next week and see what happens

[danensis]

PS, anyone who parks in a disabled space who is not disabled. we should be allowed to hit them on the legs with a hammer until they are disabled. my mothers registered disabled (no blood flow in her legs) can walk but not very far. took her to the shops on Friday, 4 disabled spaces all taken by ignorant little sh1ts. these badges are given for a reason, not because disabled people are to lazy to walk to the shops.

rant over

You can always park across the back of them.

[Bob_A]

PS, anyone who parks in a disabled space who is not disabled. we should be allowed to hit them on the legs with a hammer until they are disabled. my mothers registered disabled (no blood flow in her legs) can walk but not very far. took her to the shops on Friday, 4 disabled spaces all taken by ignorant little sh1ts. these badges are given for a reason, not because disabled people are to lazy to walk to the shops.

rant over

It's people like this that really wind me up.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news....ot.html

[Tony McC]

I *am* registered disabled and I've been physically threatened for asking a perfectly fit and healthy bloke in his mid 20s not to take up a disabled space while he nipped in to collect his pizza from Dominos. It takes a real man with ginormous balls to threaten a middle-aged, overweight bloke with a walking stick, of course.

I've been over to York today and had to endure all my pet hates. Tits dawdling along in the middle lane of the M62 and causing mile-long tail backs while the inside lane is blissfully empty; BMW drivers with, apparently, no functioning indicators; panicky twonks who find themselves in the fast lane but refuse to do more than 69.99 mph to get out of the friggin' way because that would be breaking the law; and, in the pub car park where we pulled in for a bite of lunch, all four disabled bays taken up by lazy gits who couldn't possibly manage the extra 20 metres from the regular car spaces. These last miscreants must be the ones in the paper this morning, the ones that are too lazy to have sex.

It's not just the proximity of those disabled spaces to the doorway: it's the extra width, that allows us to fully open our doors and to get in and out of our vehicles without walking sideways on tiptoes and squeezing our arses past wing mirrors. It's bad enough for me with a walking stick: I find it disgusting when I see someone in a wheelchair having to load/unload in an awkward spot because arrogant, thoughtless, selfish knobs like John Terry think they ought to be able to park where they want.

[henpecked]

I totally agree with you,Tony.

But.......

Sainsburys by us operates a disabled 'priority' bays. Theyve filled the carpark with 1/3 disable bays (many more than is needed). Then, when its busy, they get priority. It works really well as you dont have to park the other side of the carpark just to nip in to play the lotto at 9pm on a Friday night, or ,feel guilty your putting someone out in the process

Hp

[henpecked]

PS.

A friend of mine always says

'Women are like parking spaces. All the good one are gone. So ,every now and again, when no-ones looking, I slip into a disabled one' .





Hp

[lutonlagerlout]

my old dear and my mother in law are registered disabled and TBH neither of them really are,1 has MS and the other has had both hips replaced but both are fully functioning now, and i find this needling when you see people with disabled stickers bounding out of their cars .
having met the gaffer he is definitely disabled and needs the sticker but i guess over 50 % just abuse it for free parking etc

regards LLL

[rab1]

Just to clarify, my mother can walk about 40ft without sticks, after that she needs to sit for half an hour before walking again. she has a wheel chair but refuses to use it, without trying to walk they will have to remove her legs before gangrene sets in.