The contract in Lambeth which stipulates Control Plus
have to hand out 200,000 tickets a year, otherwise
their profits are significantly reduced.

Most of these contracts, and certainly the incentives for
the individual parking attendents, specify a certain
number of *valid* tickets must be issued in a set period
of time. This eliminates the incentive to issue incorrect
tickets to fill a quota.

Of course, people who think they have been incorrectly
issued with a penalty notice can always appeal - by
paying you agree that you were parked illegally in
return for the council taking no further action against
you.


Matt Ashby

On 29 Jun 2005 16:30:36 -0700, "Matt Ashby"
wrote:

Of course, people who think they have been incorrectly
issued with a penalty notice can always appeal - by
paying you agree that you were parked illegally in
return for the council taking no further action against
you.

The latter, of course, is fine in theory, but not if someone's car has
been towed away in the process. They invariably then have no choice
but to pay to get the vehicle back, as the "storage" charges rack up
by the day.
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Charlie wrote to uk.transport.london on Wed, 29 Jun 2005:


Anyone who drives a car in Lambeth is a target for unfair ticketing.
The council have put financial incentives in their parking contract
which means that traffic wardens have to hand out 12 tickets for EVERY
12 hour shift.

Find out more he http://www.lambethlabour.com/parking/

Anyone else experienced unfair ticketing?

In Lambeth? Definitely! Too often to go into detail.... but unless you
have access to off-road parking, there's not much point in owning a car
in Lambeth!
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