Do you pass on Pay and Display tickets?

[selym]

As often as I can, and so does everybody else in Marlow.

[g3org3y]

Jasandjules said:

Yes I do if there is time left on them. And people have offered me tickets too.

One of the last remaining examples of true human kindness that exist in driving.

[GuyWMD]

The only pay/display car parks I seem to come across or use these days are for the train station near the office and have never seen anyone else that I could pass a ticket on to. Other times I've been coming back on the later services out of Waterloo.

Seems most of the car parks that you pay for the time used have ANPR cameras at the entrance as more often than not reg numbers are printed on the tickets.

[Who me ?]

caiss4 said:

I do it whenever I can but I wouldn't offer it to an OAP. They get bus passes; why are they even driving to town?

Have you tried to walk two hundred yards to a bus stop with a knackered hip ,and a local hospital where if you go in for a new hip ,you can come out with a new hip and one or more undesirable conditions.
I likewise pass on my ticket ( when I get one ,as I often park on double yellows with a badge) if I park in council car park . I say IF, as my greedy lot charge badge holders, whereas most other towns don't .

[redgti]

Yes,i always do,although I once got a telling off from a parking warden who saw me doing it!

[delboy735]

I do all the time, and strangely have never had one given to me...and that's in 30 years of driving !!



and parking obviously

[Four Litre]

Always do when possible. I actually wait until somebody turned up who I could give it to.


I fking hate the council.

[Toaster Pilot]

Engineer1 said:

In Lichfield the council upgraded all their machines to require the middle two digits of the number plate, genius given all the cars registered in that 6 month period will have the same numbers.

that's brilliant.

One of the council areas here has the "enter your reg number" machines and I hate them with a passion. In other areas where you don't need to I do pass on my ticket though.

[All that jazz]

freakybacon said:

I'll just pop this here...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-25489765

I couldn't let this little gem slip by unnoticed:

article said:

but the Local Government Association said councils were on the side of motorists.

Yes, yes. Of course they are.

[Outrun]

I got a ticket in a University car park once because i'd overstayed by 10 minutes. Being a skint student i quickly came up with plan. Luckily my mates car was in the same car park with a valid ticket at the time my fine was issued so i took it along to the office a few days later and they cancelled the fine, no questions asked.

Ever since then if i return to my car and see someone being dished out a parking fine i'll pop my valid ticket on their screen so that they don't have to pay. Obviously only works with tickets that don't require a registration number.....

[Toaster Pilot]

kowalski655 said:

I will do this when I can, but most around here are pay on exit,or you need a reg number.

Strange how my car often has the reg. P155 OFF

Has anyone on here ever been given a ticket for having the wrong reg on the ticket? Do they actually enforce it?

[0a]

Good timing - free parking for 4 hours this afternoon from someone who kindly gave me their all day ticket as I was heading over to the ticket machine

[Cliftonite]

Toaster Pilot said:

Has anyone on here ever been given a ticket for having the wrong reg on the ticket? Do they actually enforce it?

If they weren't going to enforce it, then why spend so much money on the machines that print the number??

[Toaster Pilot]

Cliftonite said:

Toaster Pilot said:

Has anyone on here ever been given a ticket for having the wrong reg on the ticket? Do they actually enforce it?

If they weren't going to enforce it, then why spend so much money on the machines that print the number??

Well the threat of being ticketed for something is enough to put the majority of law abiding people off breaking the rules...

Most of the machines I've seen print the reg in a pretty small font, is the average traffic warden checking 1000s of cars a day going to spend the time to check the plates/tax disc against this tiny bit of text on every ticket or are they going to look at the time the ticket expires and move on?

[troc]

I've often stuck the P&D ticket to the machine if it has lots of time left and there's nobody around to give it to. Before now, I've seen up to half a dozen other tickets on there for people to re-use

[James2593]

Is there any legal way of councils to fine if the wrong reg is on the ticket? The sign would say to enter a (or your) registration, but is there anything that says the registration on the ticket must match the number plate? I've only used a ticket machine that requires a reg once (Llandudno promenade) so i'm not familiar with the wording.

[Stuartggray]

Engineer1 said:

In Lichfield the council upgraded all their machines to require the middle two digits of the number plate, genius given all the cars registered in that 6 month period will have the same numbers.

That, in a nutshell is Council mentality. fking funny though!

[Quikcurl]

James2593 said:

Is there any legal way of councils to fine if the wrong reg is on the ticket? The sign would say to enter a (or your) registration, but is there anything that says the registration on the ticket must match the number plate? I've only used a ticket machine that requires a reg once (Llandudno promenade) so i'm not familiar with the wording.

I don't know the answer, but the ones that I have seen say enter 'your' full registration number. No mention of it being the car you're currrently driving!

Also, they were turned off near my mum's!

[andy_vtec]

I was over in the US (New Jersey) in November and the car park i used had numbered spaces.

When purchasing the ticket you entered the space number you were in. Apparently the parking wardens have a mobile device that tells them which spaces should be in use, a quick drive round checking spaces vs tickets in windscreens and job jobbed

[gubbabump]

yes I always do this, or stick it to the machine - I wouldn't even give it a second thought. I also park my car daily in a multi-storey car park in which I get all day parking for £4 (its usually £18) manys a time I will let the public use my discount card - especially at this festive period, just the little bit of happiness it brings people is enough to make me do it.