Parking Mad -BBC1 9pm
Discussion
colonel c said:
I wonder if the station car park owners dropped their charges to say a couple of quid. Would that encourage more commuters to use it and therefor make them more money in the long run.
I doubt it. Commuters already pay far too much for the service provided - any 'savings' therefor are not to be sneezed at, IMO. 
Mojooo said:
I hear time and time again that discretion should be used but deep down I dont like the fact that one guy got done after 10 minutes and one got left off after 30 mins overstaying. It can hardly be surprising when everyone argues the toss can it? For soemthing so simple it should be black and white.
That's the problem with pay and display; you have to know in advance how long you are going to be parked. So people will tend to always buy more than they need. But if it's pay on exit you can't get a fine of course.So that's what councils love Pay & Display and not manned car parks. It's win-win for them and lose-lose for the motorist.
It reminds me of when I used to live near Brighton 20 odd years ago. If you parked in the underground car park on the front, if you were just a few minutes into the next hour the chap on pay on exit thing would let you off so you did not go into the next charging band. I used to think that was really good so of course whenever I drove to Brighton I'd always park there.
Black can man said:
I really didn't like the bailiff woman from Croydon , How much would they get from the £500.00 or so they were taking off of the drivers they stopped ?
Their fines were only £60.00 or so.
Remind me not to visit Lincoln , how smug were they ?
I thought they were fines that had escalated so there were probably court costs etcTheir fines were only £60.00 or so.
Remind me not to visit Lincoln , how smug were they ?
I wouldn't assume is an innocent little darling.
baldy1926 said:
wolfracesonic said:
I was so hoping the guy who drove off in the RX8 had a large Pistonheads sticker in the rear window!
He could have made the bad parking thread for parking with wheels/tyres half on the kerbHaving said that, I do sympathise a little; yes we pay our road tax and yes legally they can park there but the residents' annoyance and efforts should be aimed at the rail company for privatising the car park and causing the problem.
Luckily I live on a very wide road, most houses have driveways that can accommodate 6 or so cars (driveways are out of proportion with size of the house), but I can imagine how annoyed I'd be if I had to park any distance away from my house each day, legal or not.
I'm looking forward to watching more.
AB said:
Not to mention the terrible reverse parking by the guy in the little red car who was trying to annoy the commuters in the sleepy Sussex village...
I had to laugh at that - complaining about others parking and yet theirs was the worse attempt at parking in the whole programme. Somebody having to guide them in, up on the grass and I think they stalled it too.Far too many people take the piss and feel hard done by in this programme.
The guy with the black Seat was allowed to go on his way, after refusing to pay, as it was a motability car, but it was being abused as the guy was taking his wife/partner to work.....and his mother wasn't even in the car.
The woman with the black A3, who parked 60 metres away from a defect in the yellow line and still expected to get off, (for a second time), on a technicality.
The guy with the black Seat was allowed to go on his way, after refusing to pay, as it was a motability car, but it was being abused as the guy was taking his wife/partner to work.....and his mother wasn't even in the car.
The woman with the black A3, who parked 60 metres away from a defect in the yellow line and still expected to get off, (for a second time), on a technicality.
mp3manager said:
Far too many people take the piss and feel hard done by in this programme.
The guy with the black Seat was allowed to go on his way, after refusing to pay, as it was a motability car, but it was being abused as the guy was taking his wife/partner to work.....and his mother wasn't even in the car.
The woman with the black A3, who parked 60 metres away from a defect in the yellow line and still expected to get off, (for a second time), on a technicality.
With the personalised plate, then turning on the tears in the appeal hearing.The guy with the black Seat was allowed to go on his way, after refusing to pay, as it was a motability car, but it was being abused as the guy was taking his wife/partner to work.....and his mother wasn't even in the car.
The woman with the black A3, who parked 60 metres away from a defect in the yellow line and still expected to get off, (for a second time), on a technicality.
My Mrs (Farmgirl) said - "Tears won't work on other females dear"
Farm boy said:
mp3manager said:
Far too many people take the piss and feel hard done by in this programme.
The guy with the black Seat was allowed to go on his way, after refusing to pay, as it was a motability car, but it was being abused as the guy was taking his wife/partner to work.....and his mother wasn't even in the car.
The woman with the black A3, who parked 60 metres away from a defect in the yellow line and still expected to get off, (for a second time), on a technicality.
With the personalised plate, then turning on the tears in the appeal hearing.The guy with the black Seat was allowed to go on his way, after refusing to pay, as it was a motability car, but it was being abused as the guy was taking his wife/partner to work.....and his mother wasn't even in the car.
The woman with the black A3, who parked 60 metres away from a defect in the yellow line and still expected to get off, (for a second time), on a technicality.
My Mrs (Farmgirl) said - "Tears won't work on other females dear"
Has anyone got a link to the judgement that changed this? I think the adjudicator may have been blagging it...
WinstonWolf said:
I thought she *should* get off on the broken yellow line, it was always the case that the wording was "Acceptable variations; none".
Has anyone got a link to the judgement that changed this? I think the adjudicator may have been blagging it...
Common sense would suggest that the break was much too far away from where she was parking. Has anyone got a link to the judgement that changed this? I think the adjudicator may have been blagging it...
Chris Type R said:
WinstonWolf said:
I thought she *should* get off on the broken yellow line, it was always the case that the wording was "Acceptable variations; none".
Has anyone got a link to the judgement that changed this? I think the adjudicator may have been blagging it...
Common sense would suggest that the break was much too far away from where she was parking. Has anyone got a link to the judgement that changed this? I think the adjudicator may have been blagging it...
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