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Enough is enough : fed up with parking fines abuse!
Definition: "Traffic wardens are civilians who assist the police by keeping the traffic flowing and issuing fixed penalty notices for parking and other traffic offences." "Traffic wardens are employed by the police, parking attendants are employed by a council or by a contractor engaged by a council". (www.met.police.uk/recruitment/ ) |
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Have you ever been fuming about getting a £50 fine because you were 4 minutes late on returning to your car? Or even better; one evening, you go around for hours trying to find a resident parking space. Finally, you resort to parking half on a yellow line and half on the resident permit space in front of your house, unfortunately, in the morning, you forget to return to your car on time for the 8.30 hostilities to start and you are fined at 8.35. An expensive evening out would you say?!!! |
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Residents have given up on leading normal lives in Westminster. Forget about friends visiting, taking your shopping out of your car, loading children and elderly relatives in front of your house because whatever you do you are in the wrong and big brother will get you. You have become and additional source of revenue for the council and why should they stop there. Cameras are being placed in all sorts of places to ensure that if you infringe you will be had. Do you think that the council, by targeting cars that have spend 5 minutes over their time limit or are parked on a single yellow line is helping keep the road safe and flowing. This is to be questioned? |
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Of course no one would dispute the fact that in large cities cutting down on the number of cars is absolutely crucial, but let's review the alternatives on offer. By improving public transports, creating more cycle paths, improving the quality of the surface and making the cycle routes safer, councils would motivate more people to switch to cycling. But is it really what the council wants given that it would loose a massive part of its annual revenues? Could it be argued that the council is sitting between two chairs? Do they really have the interest of the public in mind? | |||||
Although we all understand that it is not right to park illegally, or to cause obstruction to the traffic, most of the time we are penalized merely for being late or not having enough small change. In some boroughs, traffic wardens seem to have more understanding than in others. They appear to show more latitude. Is it because councils don't have the same incentive schemes running? | |||||
Some interesting facts:
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Councils have become experts at making your life even more difficult:
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All in all councils are abusing their rights and making you an additional source of revenues. They effectively created through such methods an additional tax.
We are keen to discover what your experience has been over the years and we would like to get your testimonials for us to publish them in a follow up of this article. And who knows, we may even take them to Mr Ken. If you have any comments and suggestion, please write to enoughisenough@franceinlondon.co.uk |
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