other Parking tickets - despite not being parked !!

[citizenB]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4488560/Shoppers-trapped-car-park-100-fine-overstaying.html

 

 

Shoppers who were trapped in their cars for hours in bank holiday gridlock at retail park are fined £100 for overstaying in the car park

Ashford Retail Park in Kent installed cameras to check drivers stay times in April

But the Easter bank holiday traffic meant some faced queues of two hours to get out of the shopping centre

They were then hit with fines this week for 'overstaying' the three hour slots

One man spent 20 minutes just getting out of his parking space in the car park

 

 

[DragonFly1967]

LowLife Parking strike again. HOOPLA are going to be busy

 

No doubt LowLife will "investigate fully" and then say "your representations have been carefully considered and rejected", "the ticket was issued correctly" blah blah heard it all before..

 

What they won't do is look to see why hundreds of PCN/NTK's have been generated all of a sudden for one day and think, 'hang on a minute, something's wrong here', I mean, God forbid that any common sense will ever be allowed inside Ranger Towers.

[dx100uk]

as usual the dailymail calls them fines

and the other stupids call them penalty charge notices...

 

 

dx

[DragonFly1967]

as usual the dailymail calls them fines

and the other stupids call them penalty charge notices...

 

One should never expect too much from the Daily Maul. Or its readers.

[ericsbrother]

well, DF,

at least the DM is making an issue of this and particularly the way the parking co's abuse civil procedure by issuing claims to the wrong addresses on purpose when people move house.

Just because it is is the DM doesnt mean it isnt true.

 

Any publicity is good publicity and it does look like the govt will revisit private parking law but I think it will be another curates egg with absolute keeper liability introduced but abuse of court curtailed somewhat.

 

 

Consumer law in all other fields advances but when it comes to these chisellers making money with suspect contracts we are going back to the mid 19th century.

 

 

I cannot believe that is Capita didnt own the largest parking co any of this would have got much beyond the gutter but as they have local councils and the govt by the sphericals they have their full attention.

 

 

IBM used to do this sort of thing when the govt wanted to switch its computer contracts over to Sybase IBM just said that they would no longer guarantee a 24/7 call out if they were passed over for future contracts. The message was clear and IBM continued to get new work when they should have done.

 

the other thing is more than half the people will pay up anyway without challenging.

 

I have told this tale before but Kettering General Hospital was the first to introduce payment for hospital parking.

 

 

They claimed it was to stop commuters using the car park and walking into town, a distance of at least a mile ( past 3 other car parks).

 

 

If people had just simply refused to pay the whole hospital parking charges industry would have just died on the spot but people dont use a collective benefit approach to things, they just pay up and moan afterwards.

 

 

Sky TV introduced pay per view for a boxing match and they were bricking it that no-one would pay more for something they had already bought.

 

 

As it was there were enough dumb people who did cough up rather than use forward thinking so SKY has continued this money grabbing ever since

 

Labour are going to put in their manifesto that parking charges are to be scrapped and the hospitals compensated.

 

 

Sorry? the hospitals dont get the money and what they do get cannot be spent on front line activities anyway so is the govt going to compensate PE for losing its best earners?

 

 

Typical headline grabbing political statement that is rubbish when you actually look in depth at it.