Parking

[feebletoe1492]

Hope somebody can help. I live in a university city and very near a popular theatre in Hampshire. When in student term time the residential roads where I live are pretty much everyday full. Forcing me to park where I can. Last night I finished work to find no legal parking spaces anywhere near my house.. So I parked on some doubles at app 20.30 hours with a view to pop out and move it around about 10pm..of which I did but could see no obvious spaces... Went out at midnight.. To find a ticket on my car... I am furious... There is no residential parking... And I fail to see what more I can do apart from not paying the fine. Any suggestions gratefully received. Thanks.

[feebletoe1492]

Complete twaddle. A lady taxi driver lives near me who is a night driver. She has mobility issues. Is she expected to walk at least half a mile with all her takings on her person... Elderly neighbours cannot take their cars out in the evening because they cannot get a space.. You say just get on with it. Brilliant!!!!

[ummmm]

They are public roads. We do not own the road in front of our houses. It's not twaddle...it's a fact.

[jackthehat]

I live on a road which is directly off Blackpool Prom. I can't remember the last time I managed to park outside my house. It is one of the problems of a society which is car-based.

Getting snitty with people on this website won't solve your problems. I don't know what the answer to your problems is but it's certainly not *not* paying the ticket.

[bednobs]

your neighbours choose not to take thier cars out in the evening, because they want to keep the space they have. It would be nice if everyone could park outside their house, but they can't. If your taxi driver is afriad for her takings, then she could just stop on the road outside her house, put herhazzards on, put her takings inside, then go off and find a space

[murraymints]

as others have said..this is a problem the country over...noboday has the right to the road outside their door....afraid you have no mitigation and will have to pay up

[murraymints]

nobody ^

[feebletoe1492]

I wonder if you guys have a driveway! Public transport not the answer as I have to start at 5am...I know I don't have the right to park right outside my house... My road would be nice though. Students park down my road and live several streets away. They rarely move them. All I'm saying is maybe students need encouragement not to bring their vehicles down to our city. Free bikes or something. I don't know.. All I can say getting fined £60 everytime I can't find anywhere to park is unsustainable and wrong.

[murraymints]

'ems the rules I'm afraid !

[murraymints]

...and to discriminate against students would be wrong and unacceptable in the eyes of the law... however wronged you feel...

[ummmm]

Get on to the council about it and ask for permit parking. Still doesn't guarantee you a parking space though.

[andy-hughes]

feebletoe - //I wonder if you guys have a driveway! //

You started your question 'Hope somebody can help ... ' and clearly the answer, which you already know, is no, they can't help.

No-one minds a 'sound-off' - we all do it, but getting cross with people who are more fortunate than you with their parking arrangements is not the idea.

You have asked for help, and been offered sympathy- why not leave it there, instead of wiping out the good will you have received by being with cross with people simply because they can park their cars where they live.

Life is not perfect.

[gingejbee]

Well...I've got a (three-car) drive, a double garage and a paved (two car) area out front....so there!

[murraymints]

do you live in Hampshire ? could make a fortune it seems !

[gingejbee]

No, murray, I don't...but within reasonable driving distance, methinks!

[murraymints]

get a ticket machine !

[feebletoe1492]

Blimey don't know why I bothered. Thanks for the sensible answers chaps.. And BTW I'm looking for a solution not sympathy.... Gonna appeal.. I have heard I'm appealing.

[sherrardk]

Maybe you could get a bike?

[andy-hughes]

feebletoe - // Blimey don't know why I bothered. Thanks for the sensible answers chaps.. And BTW I'm looking for a solution not sympathy.... Gonna appeal.. I have heard I'm appealing. //

Neither to I.

There is no feasible solution to your issue, either in terms of avoiding paying your parking ticket, or the reasons that led up to you receiving it.

You must have known that before you posted - but you've had some answers you didn't like, and got chippy with people - but that's how the AB works.

[THECORBYLOON]

"Gonna appeal.. I have heard I'm appealing." Are you sure it wasn't "appalling"...?