Wardens are to be banned from clamping cars for
Clamps should only be used for repeat offenders, says Govt
a single parking offence, under new guidelines from the Department of Transport. Clamping will now be reserved for repeat offenders.
Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly has also said that councils should not be allowed to set targets for the number of tickets issued. Councils made £1.16 billion from parking fines in 2005, compared to £638 million in 1997.
Presumably, this initiative from the DfT is to help improve the public perception of wardens, beyond its alleged present state as an intolerable set of money-sucking, quota-filling little b*******.
RAC spokesman Edmund King commented: “Clamping is a crude activity which should have been outlawed at the time of Dick Turpin.”
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