Nice little earner !!

Page may contain affiliate links. Please see terms for details.

kikkthecat

MB Enthusiast
Joined
Oct 10, 2003
Messages
1,181
Location
West Yorkshire
Car
2011 Viano 2.2 CDi Ambiente
Police in Leeds have started dishing out tickets in the middle of the night to illegally parked cars that have been parking in the same place for years without penalty.

Parking fines

It seems that the speed limit on the road is going to be altered from 40 Mph to 30 Mph and someone must have noticed that in a 40 limit you have to park with lights on.
So round they go, 3:00am and start ticketing every car on the street. People who have lived there and parked there for decades are suddenly getting £30 fixed penalty notices.
I understand that they are breaking the law, which they will not be once the limit is reduced but why has it not been applied before ? It just smacks of money grabbing.
 
Does sound a bit odd really, I think possibly there's some other issue here- As alluded to by the resident talking about the "Highways department fining them...for parking on the verge."

Having said that, the police statement doesn't help the cause...

humourless police spokesperson said:
A spokeswoman for West Yorkshire Police said: "West Yorkshire Police are dedicated to ensuring the county's roads are safe.

"According to law, a vehicle parked on a road where the speed limit is over 30mph and it is during sunset and sunrise then the vehicle must display its lights.

"The vehicles in question were not displaying lights and therefore a penalty notice was issued."
 
hmm , would be amusing if they all started leaving parking lights on just in spite :)
 
Police in Leeds have started dishing out tickets in the middle of the night to illegally parked cars that have been parking in the same place for years without penalty.

[
That makes Leeds a really nice city - in most other places they would have been vandalised if they'd been left on the street for years.
 

Users who are viewing this thread

Back
Top Bottom