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"Paul" wrote:
Whilst all of this was going on, there was a fair amount of congestion.
Traffic was moving, albeit very slowly.
On returning to my van, I was greeted with the sight of a parking warden
issuing me with a ticket. When I explained to the warden the reason for may
being parked where I was, I was informed that I could appeal against the
ticket.
Had the ticket been issued at the time you spoke to the warden? If not,
you would be better placed to just drive away. To be issued, it must be
afixed to the vehicle or handed to the driver.
It beggars belief to see the kind of morons that are employed on behalf of
the City of Westminster to 'harass' motorists.
They are not actually employed by Westminster CC.
Obviously, all that matters to the wardens is to issue as many tickets as
possible in order to achieve their commission.
Almost certainly, yes.
I appreciate that parking wardens do not have the easiest or most popular
job in the world, but surely a degree of common sense is one of the
requisites for the job?
Definitely not. A willingness to suspend all rational arguments, and
refuse to engage in conversations about the rights and wrongs of what
one is doing, is positively helpful at the recruitment stage. It is
tested for, in order to weed out those that are likely to be swayed by
argument or "common sense".
Any comments?
The system is run in most, if not all, boroughs to maximise revenue by
having as many tickets as possible issued. The job of issuing tickets is
subject to compulsory competitive tendering. The system will not improve
until parking ticket revenues, and other "civil" fines like penalty
fares, bus lane penalties, are handed directly to the treasury and not
pocketed by the rules makers, and enforcers in one, the local councils.
The current system gives them a perverse incentive to make up stupid
rules and be officious about enforcing them.
Having said that, you should appeal to the Director of Transportation at
Westminster at once.
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