Frequency of parking ticket.

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Mon 9 Jan 2006 18:01
Frequency of parking ticket. - mjm
I'm not sure whether this should be in discussion or "I have a question", mods please move as appropriate.

A car is parked, illegaly, on double yellow lines. It receives a deserved parking ticket. The car is not moved.
How long before the powers that be can affix another legitimate ticket to it? How long can this process continue before more drastic action is taken by the powers that be?
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Mon 9 Jan 2006 18:48
Frequency of parking ticket. - Altea Ego
It depends where it is.

In central London it would last about 30 minutes with a ticket before it was clamped, (One of our trucks got ticketed and clamped in 10 minutes) and another hour before it was lifted to the pound.

Elsewhere, in the sticks I have seen 1 car gather 7 tickets in a week (one a day)
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Mon 9 Jan 2006 19:11
Frequency of parking ticket. - Big Bad Dave
"7 tickets in a week (one a day)"

thanks for clarifying that RF
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Mon 9 Jan 2006 19:15
Frequency of parking ticket. - Altea Ego
Just in case you had gone native Dave,
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Mon 9 Jan 2006 19:47
Frequency of parking ticket. - Dynamic Dave
and another hour before it was lifted to the pound.


Sidetracking slightly from the original question - if your car is carted off to the pound, how do you know that's where it's gone?

You return to where you left your car, find it's gone, so surely your initial thoughts would be that it's stolen.

Do the pound inform the police or DVLA that they've got your car so that when you report the *theft* the police or DVLA tell you otherwise?
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Mon 9 Jan 2006 20:11
Frequency of parking ticket. - David Horn
If you got back to your car and it had a clamp on, can you sit in it to stop them lifting it onto a truck and driving off with it? And what's to stop some lowlife from borrowing said truck and driving around to make off with legally parked cars?
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Mon 9 Jan 2006 20:26
Frequency of parking ticket. - sierraman
I would bet it has been done,I had some bogus council workers strip the Yorshire flag pavement from outside my house.I could not resist making the call to the police-'I would like to report a theft'.'Certainly sir,what's been stolen?''The pavement'.
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Mon 9 Jan 2006 20:22
Frequency of parking ticket. - Altea Ego
They inform the police. In the old days it used to be the met that lifted them.
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Mon 9 Jan 2006 20:49
Frequency of parking ticket. - Navara Van man
If the vehicle was causeing trafic disruption then it would be rapidly removed if in a 'safe position' then they would probably just hapily add tickets.

Paul
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Mon 9 Jan 2006 23:30
Frequency of parking ticket. - PhilW
"if your car is carted off to the pound, how do you know that's where it's gone?"

Goood q DD - and one I asked about a while ago and there was no reply!!
I raised it because my daughter had her car "impounded", went to police to report it stolen and they "suggested" it might be in the pound and she should check there first. They had no record though of whether it was there or not. (It was)

The other question is whether the £200 she had to pay to "release it" is a fair fine for a minor offence like parking too close to a junction on a suburban side street which actually caused no problem to other road or footpath users.

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Phil
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Mon 9 Jan 2006 23:34
Frequency of parking ticket. - Navara Van man
I bet she was parked on double yellow, but £200 is silly money £50 would be fair
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Mon 9 Jan 2006 23:37
Frequency of parking ticket. - PhilW
"double yellow"
Nope, no line, just too close to a junction (entrance to a park)
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Tue 10 Jan 2006 18:17
Frequency of parking ticket. - mjm
So in theory, then, assuming the vehicle is unlikely to be "removed" in any way for seriously obstructing the carriageway, there is no limit. If the warden was doing a two hour tour, then every time he/she passed the vehicle, another ticket could legitimately be applied to it?
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