Parking laws, fines and signs
What are the laws about minimum signage and road markings necessary to indicate that parking is prohibited on a road side?
My wife has just been ticketed after parking in a car park off a Leeds suburban railway station car park. Street parking has been allowed there for many years, but Northern Rail have just descended on those who have parked there and given tickets and £50 fines - without warning of a change of circumstance.
Even now, there are no yellow lines and the smallest-ever notices about parking prohibition are located in the car park at the furthest point away from the street that is possible.
What is the regulation and what the minimum notice that should be given of a swinging change to practice?
Northern rail recently announced with pride that over 200,000 passengers a year use this small suburban station, but then assault the pockets of those same station users with these sudden and petty changes. Where is the business rationale in that?
My wife has just been ticketed after parking in a car park off a Leeds suburban railway station car park. Street parking has been allowed there for many years, but Northern Rail have just descended on those who have parked there and given tickets and £50 fines - without warning of a change of circumstance.
Even now, there are no yellow lines and the smallest-ever notices about parking prohibition are located in the car park at the furthest point away from the street that is possible.
What is the regulation and what the minimum notice that should be given of a swinging change to practice?
Northern rail recently announced with pride that over 200,000 passengers a year use this small suburban station, but then assault the pockets of those same station users with these sudden and petty changes. Where is the business rationale in that?
Asked on 10 August 2012 by halloranan
Answered by
Honest John
If this is private land, see:
www.honestjohn.co.uk/news/legal--motoring-advice/2.../
www.honestjohn.co.uk/news/legal--motoring-advice/2.../
www.honestjohn.co.uk/news/legal--motoring-advice/2.../
www.honestjohn.co.uk/faq/private-parking-penalties/
www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=92483
www.honestjohn.co.uk/askhj/answer/27609/parking-mad
We all seem to be bashing our heads against an unyielding brick wall.
No significant media has taken up the cause.
The Daily Telegraph has refused. The Daily Mail hasn't bothered.
I fear that nothing at all will happen until there is a public outcry
after October.
Eventually, the Supreme Court will probably rule on a matter of law.
Ultimately, what the BPA is doing will be self-defeating.
If it is successful in deterring drivers from parking badly then it makes
no money and goes bust.
If it is too aggressive in pursuing too many people, there will be massive
public reaction against it.
www.honestjohn.co.uk/news/legal--motoring-advice/2.../
www.honestjohn.co.uk/news/legal--motoring-advice/2.../
www.honestjohn.co.uk/news/legal--motoring-advice/2.../
www.honestjohn.co.uk/faq/private-parking-penalties/
www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=92483
www.honestjohn.co.uk/askhj/answer/27609/parking-mad
We all seem to be bashing our heads against an unyielding brick wall.
No significant media has taken up the cause.
The Daily Telegraph has refused. The Daily Mail hasn't bothered.
I fear that nothing at all will happen until there is a public outcry
after October.
Eventually, the Supreme Court will probably rule on a matter of law.
Ultimately, what the BPA is doing will be self-defeating.
If it is successful in deterring drivers from parking badly then it makes
no money and goes bust.
If it is too aggressive in pursuing too many people, there will be massive
public reaction against it.
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