Parking Ticket
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Plus-can you imagine car parks making bays bigger when they’ll just lose revenue, nah🤷🏻♂️, they’d rather just fine folk & get more profits. . .Common sense & fairness Don't fill their pockets😕
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When working I often did work approving works that were to be part of the highway or doing design and supervision for developers. On one such job in the Crew area I recall that planning approval required the provision of 1.5 car parking spaces. The properties were mainly 2 bed townhouses with no garage
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Nice…sorry, a bit off topic but I like classic cars, provides a nice diversion from arguing with people on here 😉
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I am working on the theory you are talking about a Rover P4 100, and not the later version? P4, lovely car, classic van tugger.
My sister had a Rover 100, same purple colour. It was driven over by a careless HGV driver, thankfully only the front end, so Mum, Dad and Sister escaped unscathed. One the plus side, it did fit in most parking spaces.
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Yep the second picture P4 , ours was 2.6 overhead inlet side exhaust valves Two.Tone mushroom sides with cream in other areas, last of the line that had alloy boot ,bonnet and doors went all steel after that and only cross ply tyres would fit in the spare wheel "boot" only one problem we had that was never solved the overdrive solenoid would burn out on a quote regular basis, easy to change, so always carried a spare, body was bolted to separate chassis with 9 bolts
A work colleague had the Rover P4 80 with the Land Rover engine
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Sounds a beautiful car. We had a Rover P6B, 3.5 litre engine. Boy could it shift, and so comfortable. Never towed with it, but It was well up to being used for such.
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It’s easy to bring it back TL just post on topic👍🏻🙂
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If you look at photos of the fifties and sixties, you hardly see any overweight people. If you look at crowd scenes on TV now, it's a very different story. The reason we probably need power steering is to overcome the friction of stomachs pressed against the steering wheel. Call me "fattist" if you like.
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Hello
Thankyou for all the comments. I have appealed the ticket now I have received the notice to owner after 8 weeks. An independent person from Ashford Council has considered my comments and ticket has been cancelled.
I have noticed on my travels that several councils now state if towing a trailer/ caravan then 2tickets required. This seems like common sense and should be applied to camlervans and motorhomes as well.Ironically Canterbury Council also in Kent advise this.
Can caravan and motorhome club make representation to councils on behalf of members.
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Well done!
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True - and that reminded me of an incident near Llanberis last time we were there and climbing Snowdon. We had taken the park and ride.The car park at the start of the path was, inevitably it seems, full and so folk were parking on the verge along the roadside. Must have been 30 or 40 of them with their outside wheels fractionally outside the yellow lines and a traffic warden (think they were still called that at the time) was cheerfully working his way along the line dishing out tickets to every single one of them!
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Are folk allowed to park on a verge? Ive seen many a ruined grass area/bank as a result of 'entitled' parked cars....or lorries or 4x4s.
sorry, but if the proper areas are full, move on...
by all means complain about lack of parking but let's not make verges (or pavements etc) fair game for all....
as Steve McGarrett might have said...."book 'em, Danno"
I don't like the sort of thing that happened to the OP and I'm glad he got his ticket cancelled but far too many folk just take the **** when it comes to 'parking'.
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You'll have to go to Llanberis to see for yourself, BB. We didn't park on the verge, we used the park and ride to the start of the walk. I was just reporting on what we saw and it was noticeable that a couple of cars, parked within the double yellow lines had not been ticketed. So clearly it wasn't the verge parking per se that was being penalised.
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While I fully agree that people should not park on grass verges and pavements it is not illegal except in London.
Rule 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
(Should not in the highway code mean it's not illegal)
and from another:
Where no waiting restrictions are present on the road, parking on a grass verge or pavement is not illegal. However, a driver may be open to prosecution if their vehicle is persistently damaging a verge, parked dangerously or causing an obstruction
Hope this helps?
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Euro carparks issued me with a overstay fine I appealed on grounds that my car had broken down & had to wait over two hours for breakdown to arrive as it was xmas eve
I supplied them with emails which i obtained from breakdown people which stated time i rang in reporting breakdown The time engineer arrived & time He / I left carpark he was working on my car for 40 minutes & had to take my car into garage in New Year to have new battery & couple of black boxes fitted
I explained to Euro Car Parks that i would rather been sat at home in the warm than sat in car in freezing conditions waiting for breakdown people
Made no difference to them I had overstayed time & they wanted their money
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