Parking ticket help
Morning all. I've just been hit with a parking ticket in a place that I have parked without problem for three years or more.

I remember reading here a few months ago about a site that told the best way to appeal a ticket, and included information about the lines on the roads not being painted properly etc.

Has anyone got the link please?
( SeasonTicketless is too often the statue, and rarely the pigeon., Wed 16 Sep 2009, 10:44, 7 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

DEAR INTERNET USER
May I ask you some IMPORTANT questions about your case?

NUMBER ONE: Are you allowed to park there?
(INTERNETLAWYERMAN, QC ACE ATTORNEY, Wed 16 Sep 2009, 10:53, Reply)

Why the new account, ILM?
Was it to celebrate your elevation to QC status? With penetrating cross-examination of that sort, it could only have been a matter of time.


(Though you picked an easy target in this case...)
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 16 Sep 2009, 10:59, Reply)

Here
www.ticketfighter.co.uk/signs.htm#1010%20-%201018.1

This will give the info you need to help. Approx 50% of lines out there are invalid.

If the lines/termination do not conform to the measurements specified be aware that they are now allowed a little leeway (10% if under the indicated measurement or 30% if over the indicated measurement)

Also be aware the if you were done on a combination line, i.e. where a single yellow line meets and merges with a double yellow a bit like this -----¬===== then both lines will be invalid. I challenged this configuration in court earlier this year and won.

Gaz me if you need more info on the court details etc for your appeal.
( RadG Drinking Mojitos in the sun, Wed 16 Sep 2009, 10:54, Reply)

Pah to parking.
Something similar happened to me; I left my car parked in the usual spot, a marked bay, whilst going on holiday for a long weekend. On my return, the council had erected signs enforcing new time restrictions; where the signs had previously stated that no unloading was to take place, now they maintained a one hour limit. As they had changed the parking restrictions around my car and then ticketed me, I challenged the ticket, which was not quashed; the council, in fact, refused to acknowledge that the parking regulations for those bays had even been changed.

I appealed this decision at the correct time and failed to receive any response from my local council. I should have found a piece of paper dropped through the door which would then allow me to make an official appeal to the adjudicator. This piece of paper never materialised, though a summons did arrive in its stead. Calling the council with a complaint that they had failed to send the relevant paperwork, without which I was unable to argue my case, I was informed that they had sent the documents by Royal Mail and that, having placed them in the post box, it was no longer their problem and that the option of re-issuing the paperwork was not available.

Having no legal recourse at this point, I had to pay the fine. The moral of this story is that Reading Borough Council are lying fuckwits who engage in illegal activities and fail to live up to their responsibilities with regard to residents. The other moral is that, even if you do everything correctly, you may still be stuffed.

EDIT: Still worth a try, though.
(ThomsonsPier consumes, Wed 16 Sep 2009, 11:22, Reply)

DEAR INTENER USER
I am labouring under the assumption that you car was parked illegally.
Am I wrong in this assumption?
(INTERNETLAWYERMAN, QC ACE ATTORNEY, Wed 16 Sep 2009, 11:35, Reply)

I parked in a legal place.
The legal place in which I parked was made illegal while I was parked in it. There was no prior warning of this. A ticket was issued under regulations which were not in force when I parked the car.

I do try not to park illegally (which is easier now that I've sold the car) and have had only one other parking ticket, which was due to my own numbwittery. I didn't whinge about that one. Much.
(ThomsonsPier consumes, Wed 16 Sep 2009, 12:39, Reply)

This is the b3ta advice:
b3ta yellow lines post
(Shippy likes linebreaks and doesn't care what you think, Wed 16 Sep 2009, 14:31, Reply)