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Parking Tickets and Fines:
You can win!
Lovely Rita meter maid
Nothing can come between us
...well actually quite a lot can!
Why do you think we collectively pay millions of pounds every year in parking fines?
a. To make the streets neater?
b. To help traffic flow?
c. To help the environment?
d. To fund the government coffers?
Politicians have discovered a great way of sucking money from our bank accounts by dreaming up more and more traffic offences we can be fined for. The great bonus for them is that they increase their revenues without looking as though they’ve increased our direct taxes. Over the past few years, the number of meter maids, currently called traffic wardens or parking attendants has exploded. In every village, town and city these uniformed agents of the Government now walk the streets of Britain slapping notices of fines onto the windscreens of vehicles just to fleece drivers for the most minor 'violations' of the ever-increasing parking regulations.
There are over 8 million parking tickets issued every year and even more now being issued on private land. You’d think that if we became better at parking our cars and fewer tickets were issued every month, the government would be pleased. Quite the opposite! It is anticipated that this will grow from 150,000+ per week to over 200,000 a week. At £60 per ticket that’s a whopping £624 million out of our pockets.
If you watched the BBC/David Attenborough series ‘Nature’s Great Events’, you’ll recall the sardine bait-ball off the South African coastline grouping and regrouping to avoid attack as the seals, dolphins, sharks and gannets decimated their numbers from above and below, until it was all over. This is just how road users are beginning to feel with the increasing number of offences they can be fined for.
Parking your car should be a matter of common sense. If you park it on the pavement, across the road or somewhere daft, you deserve to get a ticket. Yet we now live in an age where if we make one slight mistake, we are penalised with outrageous fines, well beyond the cost of administering or the magnitude of the ‘offence’. Not only that - the feeling of frustration we experience when we open the brown envelope to find a Fixed Penalty Notice is enough to make you want to strangle the next traffic warden you see. It’s not their fault; they were only following orders! But hang on - weren’t the Nuremberg trials about that?
These days it’s all about Traffic Wardens achieving their monthly quotas, and like it or not, you are just another statistic. There’s no longer any flexibility if the wheel of your car happens to be over the white parking line or if you’re a couple of minutes overdue on your time limit because your child just HAD to go to the toilet.
In 2004, a Westminster traffic warden, Samson Adeyemo, 42, of Homerton, East London, was sacked for not giving out enough parking tickets. Adeyemo said he issued about 12 tickets a day in the central London borough but felt pressured to give out more. He was officially dismissed when his bosses raised concerns about his "quantity of work" and because he had "failed to reach the required company standard".
You almost feel sorry for the Traffic Wardens because they are only people like you and me and have families to feed – just like the predators following the wildebeest. But what drives the wardens is that they have to fulfil hourly quotas or they are censured! Now do you understand why wardens show no flexibility when you are a minute overdue? Even they are saying 'The heart has been ripped out of this job' and 'We are now managed by robots'.
Do you remember the motorist in Waltham Forest who was fined for parking on double yellow lines which weren’t there when he parked his car? The vehicle painting the lines painted them around his stationery vehicle!
Ross Clark’s wonderful book on senseless government bureaucracy, ‘How to Label a Goat’ tells us of others:
- A learner driver in Camden was issued with a parking ticket after he stalled his car.
- A mother was issued with a parking ticket because she stopped when a child in the back seat started to choke.
- A lorry was issued with a parking ticket after falling into a hole created by a burst water main.
Welcome to the United Kingdom where the local bobbies are no longer there to help you. They have been replaced by law enforcement agents. Our basic beliefs in life – loving, caring, helping and compassion aren’t in Black’s Law Dictionary so instead you have to watch your back or cough up another £60 for contravening a law that was passed last month when you were on holiday with your family in Europe. Are we expected to read through tomes of turgid legislation just to keep up with the latest parking laws?
And I haven’t even started on council fines for wheelie bin offences yet. Microchips inside the bins? I ask you! Are the microchips put there to monitor recycling contents so the council can write to you and congratulate you for being a model bin user? Or are they placed there so the council can guide you if you put something in the wrong bin? Or are they there to catch you - and fine you - for contravening a regulation they engaged expensive consultants to help them dream up? I’ll leave you to guess the answer to that one!
Back to parking and the good news. There is a better way! There is an active and really helpful body of people who are 100% on your side. They are people just like you and me who have declared ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
Click here to read about them :
http://www.parkingappeals.co.uk/Home/HomeDiscountPage/tabid/770/Def...
In their website they will show you:
- How to avoid a parking ticket
- How to successfully appeal a parking ticket
- How to gain access to a wealth of information
- How to begin to legally claim refunds for tickets you have already paid
You will also learn....
Why Local Authorities have been forced to cancel tens of thousands of tickets
How to quickly identify whether signs or lines are unlawful
How to spot whether your parking ticket or other paperwork is invalid
How to avoid getting a parking ticket ever again
How to begin legally claiming refunds for tickets you have already paid
The secrets that the local authorities and Parking Attendants don't want you to know
An easy to follow step by step interactive guide to assist your appeal and pro-forma letters
and have access to ...
- The latest news as it happens as well as adjudication decisions, landmark cases and the legislation
- Details of our investigations and evidence
- A comprehensive FAQ section
- A telephone helpline with a one to one service
I took out a subscription right away. It cost me £9.99 for a year's membership and I got unrestricted access to all areas of their site. The information there is so valuable and I already know someone whose teenage daughter needs it!
What do British drivers have to look forward to?- Millions of motorists are likely to incur parking fines without realising it after being caught on CCTV.
- Councils across England and Wales will have the power to use remote cameras to enforce parking laws, then send tickets by post.
- The move comes alongside other changes that will allow Parking Attendants (who will be called Civil Enforcement Officers) to issue tickets as soon as they say they have seen a car illegally parked, without having to put them on the motorist's windscreen.
It’s time for motorists to stop being victims.
We are aware that there are many flaws in the new legislation … flaws which we intend to expose and share to enable you to successfully appeal your ticket.
By joining Parking Appeals you will also have unrestricted access to the site which will include the latest news and analysis, guidelines, top tips and access to the information the authorities don’t want you to know, as well as getting information from experts on the forum.
We also intend to continue to expose those councils acting unlawfully and will share all legal opinions and adjudications highlighting exactly how you can appeal you ticket successfully, and much more besides.
Just remember, you the motorist have become new 'stealth tax' and guilty until you can prove your own innocence, and with tickets now ranging from £60 - £120 one mistake could be very costly indeed but more often than not it is the council or the Parking Attendant who has made the mistake.
Help us help you ‘reclaim the right’ and put an end to what has simply become a revenue driven 'industry' operating under the guise of parking enforcement and support Parking Appeals, the most effective, hard-hitting campaigning website fighting for justice for the motorist.
At only £9.99 for twelve month's instant access,
I couldn’t afford not to join!
http://www.parkingappeals.co.uk/Home/HomeDiscountPage/tabid/770/Def...
Graeme Dinnen
www.wannabefree.net
You can win!
Lovely Rita meter maid
Nothing can come between us
...well actually quite a lot can!
Why do you think we collectively pay millions of pounds every year in parking fines?
a. To make the streets neater?
b. To help traffic flow?
c. To help the environment?
d. To fund the government coffers?
Politicians have discovered a great way of sucking money from our bank accounts by dreaming up more and more traffic offences we can be fined for. The great bonus for them is that they increase their revenues without looking as though they’ve increased our direct taxes. Over the past few years, the number of meter maids, currently called traffic wardens or parking attendants has exploded. In every village, town and city these uniformed agents of the Government now walk the streets of Britain slapping notices of fines onto the windscreens of vehicles just to fleece drivers for the most minor 'violations' of the ever-increasing parking regulations.
There are over 8 million parking tickets issued every year and even more now being issued on private land. You’d think that if we became better at parking our cars and fewer tickets were issued every month, the government would be pleased. Quite the opposite! It is anticipated that this will grow from 150,000+ per week to over 200,000 a week. At £60 per ticket that’s a whopping £624 million out of our pockets.
If you watched the BBC/David Attenborough series ‘Nature’s Great Events’, you’ll recall the sardine bait-ball off the South African coastline grouping and regrouping to avoid attack as the seals, dolphins, sharks and gannets decimated their numbers from above and below, until it was all over. This is just how road users are beginning to feel with the increasing number of offences they can be fined for.
Parking your car should be a matter of common sense. If you park it on the pavement, across the road or somewhere daft, you deserve to get a ticket. Yet we now live in an age where if we make one slight mistake, we are penalised with outrageous fines, well beyond the cost of administering or the magnitude of the ‘offence’. Not only that - the feeling of frustration we experience when we open the brown envelope to find a Fixed Penalty Notice is enough to make you want to strangle the next traffic warden you see. It’s not their fault; they were only following orders! But hang on - weren’t the Nuremberg trials about that?
These days it’s all about Traffic Wardens achieving their monthly quotas, and like it or not, you are just another statistic. There’s no longer any flexibility if the wheel of your car happens to be over the white parking line or if you’re a couple of minutes overdue on your time limit because your child just HAD to go to the toilet.
In 2004, a Westminster traffic warden, Samson Adeyemo, 42, of Homerton, East London, was sacked for not giving out enough parking tickets. Adeyemo said he issued about 12 tickets a day in the central London borough but felt pressured to give out more. He was officially dismissed when his bosses raised concerns about his "quantity of work" and because he had "failed to reach the required company standard".
You almost feel sorry for the Traffic Wardens because they are only people like you and me and have families to feed – just like the predators following the wildebeest. But what drives the wardens is that they have to fulfil hourly quotas or they are censured! Now do you understand why wardens show no flexibility when you are a minute overdue? Even they are saying 'The heart has been ripped out of this job' and 'We are now managed by robots'.
Do you remember the motorist in Waltham Forest who was fined for parking on double yellow lines which weren’t there when he parked his car? The vehicle painting the lines painted them around his stationery vehicle!
Ross Clark’s wonderful book on senseless government bureaucracy, ‘How to Label a Goat’ tells us of others:
- A learner driver in Camden was issued with a parking ticket after he stalled his car.
- A mother was issued with a parking ticket because she stopped when a child in the back seat started to choke.
- A lorry was issued with a parking ticket after falling into a hole created by a burst water main.
Welcome to the United Kingdom where the local bobbies are no longer there to help you. They have been replaced by law enforcement agents. Our basic beliefs in life – loving, caring, helping and compassion aren’t in Black’s Law Dictionary so instead you have to watch your back or cough up another £60 for contravening a law that was passed last month when you were on holiday with your family in Europe. Are we expected to read through tomes of turgid legislation just to keep up with the latest parking laws?
And I haven’t even started on council fines for wheelie bin offences yet. Microchips inside the bins? I ask you! Are the microchips put there to monitor recycling contents so the council can write to you and congratulate you for being a model bin user? Or are they placed there so the council can guide you if you put something in the wrong bin? Or are they there to catch you - and fine you - for contravening a regulation they engaged expensive consultants to help them dream up? I’ll leave you to guess the answer to that one!
Back to parking and the good news. There is a better way! There is an active and really helpful body of people who are 100% on your side. They are people just like you and me who have declared ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
Click here to read about them :
http://www.parkingappeals.co.uk/Home/HomeDiscountPage/tabid/770/Def...
In their website they will show you:
- How to avoid a parking ticket
- How to successfully appeal a parking ticket
- How to gain access to a wealth of information
- How to begin to legally claim refunds for tickets you have already paid
You will also learn....
Why Local Authorities have been forced to cancel tens of thousands of tickets
How to quickly identify whether signs or lines are unlawful
How to spot whether your parking ticket or other paperwork is invalid
How to avoid getting a parking ticket ever again
How to begin legally claiming refunds for tickets you have already paid
The secrets that the local authorities and Parking Attendants don't want you to know
An easy to follow step by step interactive guide to assist your appeal and pro-forma letters
and have access to ...
- The latest news as it happens as well as adjudication decisions, landmark cases and the legislation
- Details of our investigations and evidence
- A comprehensive FAQ section
- A telephone helpline with a one to one service
I took out a subscription right away. It cost me £9.99 for a year's membership and I got unrestricted access to all areas of their site. The information there is so valuable and I already know someone whose teenage daughter needs it!
What do British drivers have to look forward to?- Millions of motorists are likely to incur parking fines without realising it after being caught on CCTV.
- Councils across England and Wales will have the power to use remote cameras to enforce parking laws, then send tickets by post.
- The move comes alongside other changes that will allow Parking Attendants (who will be called Civil Enforcement Officers) to issue tickets as soon as they say they have seen a car illegally parked, without having to put them on the motorist's windscreen.
It’s time for motorists to stop being victims.
We are aware that there are many flaws in the new legislation … flaws which we intend to expose and share to enable you to successfully appeal your ticket.
By joining Parking Appeals you will also have unrestricted access to the site which will include the latest news and analysis, guidelines, top tips and access to the information the authorities don’t want you to know, as well as getting information from experts on the forum.
We also intend to continue to expose those councils acting unlawfully and will share all legal opinions and adjudications highlighting exactly how you can appeal you ticket successfully, and much more besides.
Just remember, you the motorist have become new 'stealth tax' and guilty until you can prove your own innocence, and with tickets now ranging from £60 - £120 one mistake could be very costly indeed but more often than not it is the council or the Parking Attendant who has made the mistake.
Help us help you ‘reclaim the right’ and put an end to what has simply become a revenue driven 'industry' operating under the guise of parking enforcement and support Parking Appeals, the most effective, hard-hitting campaigning website fighting for justice for the motorist.
At only £9.99 for twelve month's instant access,
I couldn’t afford not to join!
http://www.parkingappeals.co.uk/Home/HomeDiscountPage/tabid/770/Def...
Graeme Dinnen
www.wannabefree.net
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