Car Parking

[poppysix]

Hi, I went a council car park but there was no spaces left, so I parked to the side in front of some other cars, I left room for enough space for the other cars to pass, a car parking attendant said that I was commiting an offence by blocking the other cars in, I was still in my car if the owners had come back I would have moved to let them out, I was just waiting for an empty space. I dont see what the problem was.

[diddlydo]

He was just being a jobsworth.

[Zacs-Master]

Were there any consequences?

[hc4361]

He was doing you a favour. He didn't know that you weren't going to leave your car and if you had he would have given you a ticket. They is always a sign saying that cars must be parked within a bay.

[THECORBYLOON]

Some car parks with number plate recognition cameras have notices telling folk they must pay a fee within so many minutes of entering, to allow reasonable time to find a space.

If you had waited there for a space but left without paying, a penalty charge could have been imposed.

[New Judge]

The problem is that if indiscriminate parking is permitted for you (even though, unbeknown to the warden, you were remaining in your car) everybody would take advantage of the free-for-all. Car parks are laid out so that everybody using them can get in and out of the spaces without too much trouble. If there is no room in the designated spaces you must find somewhere else. The idea that "There's nowhere for me to park legally so I'll leave my car here" is why so many people receive parking tickets and then moan about it.

[Zacs-Master]

'unbeknown to the warden'

If the warden had bothered to ask, he would not have been so ignorant.

I suppose it depends how 'parking' is defined.

[poppysix]

Hi it was a pay and display, I wouldnt have left my car i told him that,

[woofgang]

and he had reason to believe you because?

[THECORBYLOON]

There is various legislation and decisions saying that parking and waiting even with the engine running) are the same thing.

[Old_Geezer]

Amazing how legislation and decisions can be so wrong then. Although at my age I'm unsurprised really. It seems deliberately to be the norm.