Parking bufoonery.

[brucemillar]

This is not unique to Car Parks. It used to be the same with Road Tax Discs. Failure to display would get you fined even if you had a valid disc.

 

[Deleted member 113659]

Well. The modern day road tax system eliminates that problem.

I imagine in the near future there will be a similar way to pay for parking where you have an app to buy a ticket using smartphone + reg number and doing away with the need to display any ticket at all.

 

[PobodY]

They've already got that; I used it in Chester I'm sure. - Use your phone to buy the ticket and because they've got your reg the warden can tell the parking is paid.

 

[Bobby Dazzler]

Well. The modern day road tax system eliminates that problem.

I imagine in the near future there will be a similar way to pay for parking where you have an app to buy a ticket using smartphone + reg number and doing away with the need to display any ticket at all.

There are quite a few apps which do just that. I use a handful of them because there isn't a standard app.

I use a car park in which you don't even do that, it recognises the registration numbers on my car as I approach the entrance/exit and it opens the barrier, and charges me as I have an account set up with them. All without getting a ticket or paying at a machine.

I regularly use one elsewhere where you can't set up an account and so you just drive in, and to get out you punch your registration number into the usual pay-on-exit machine and then when you drive out the barrier lifts as it recognises your registration number.

 

[Deleted member 113659]

Shows you how behind the times I am with technology.

Note to self: must try harder. :fail

Ant.

 

[219]

I imagine that's why the old fashioned tickets were better because you could stick them to your screen. The modern ones just blow off the dash with even the slightest gust of wind.

In your case Rob the warden witnessed you buying the ticket and issued his/her fine out of shear spite.

The traffic wardens Christmas party must be a right old laugh eh?

They probably regale each other with tales of the most dastardly , vindictive tickets issued that year ...

 

[Deleted member 113659]

They probably regale each other with tales of the most dastardly , vindictive tickets issued that year ...

'Only doing my job Sir', 'rules are rules' & 'if you can't do the time, don't do the crime' are just a few conferred phrases of the night.

Maybe the joker of the pack has T-Shirts with these phrases printed on them to hand out on the night.

Such fun. :bannana:

 

[219]

I've only recently used a pay & display car park. First time in many years. I wasn't aware you had to type in your reg number to stop you handing your used ticket (with X Hours remaining) to the next man in.

They're forever closing the loopholes.

You could either swap number plates , or let the incomer write HIS registration number on the ticket over yours .

The space has been paid for - why should they get paid twice ?

 

[Deleted member 113659]

You could either swap number plates , or let the incomer write HIS registration number on the ticket over yours

I guarantee the latter would result in a fine. 'Rules are rules!"

 

[PobodY]

It their parents I feel sorry for; imagine the shame it brings to have to tell people what your child does.

 

[219]

'Only doing my job Sir', 'rules are rules' & 'if you can't do the time, don't do the crime' are just a few conferred phrases of the night.

Maybe the joker of the pack has T-Shirts with these phrases printed on them to hand out on the night.

Such fun. :bannana:

I can just see their little soirée now ....

 

[Deleted member 6183]

Our council owned pay and display doesn't give change, robbing gits.

 

[flowrider]

The problem is that car parking spaces in UK are far too narrow. I drive in Florida a lot and the parking spaces there are way wider, you can open car doors very wide and still not touch the car next to you. We need a petition to increase the minimum width of parking spaces.