Really???

[dry run]

Got to love them traffic wardens. Got a ticket today, which I shall try and appeal (like that's gonna work). I could have moved back a couple of inches and blocked the car in behind me (they were tight against the car behind them) or suffered yet more scrapes to my car; but no, being a courteous chap I thought I'd give them a sporting chance.

Still the counci8l assure me that it's not a money making scheme, but simply to ensure the safety of all road users. So I guess I'll have to stop parking so dangerously! Rant over!

 

[Wighty]

Good luck with the fight . Nice wheels by the way

 

[malcolm E53 AMG]

Sorry to see this but like you I don’t think you will get it rescinded unfortunately, you would probably have been asked to move on had you been sat in the car

 

[Naraic]

You are more than a little over the line...and that car behind better be a reasonable driver for all the room you have allowed them...as a courteous chap.

 

[Andy.M]

I know where you are coming from but the double yellow line starts at a point and you are over it

 

[John Laidlaw]

To be honest chap that doesn’t look good, maybe a mini or Fiat 500 would have fitted that space, but it wasn’t adequate for an E Class in my opinion - don’t know how much space the white car had behind you to reverse but he wouldn’t have gotten out of the space between your vehicle and his without that. I suspect it’s that which has prompted the warden to issue a ticket, you may have gotten away otherwise.

 

[bob 6600]

Does it count from the wheels or the car hanging over?

 

[mercedes13156]

You could always sat that you parked inside the lines and someone behind you must have nudged you forward to get in or out while you were away.

I just refuse to take my car into Edinburgh now. The parkies are like "flies around a sh*te". I recently collected two new bikes at Canonmills and parked in the clearly marked "Loading Area" outside the shop. There were two empty loading spaces behind me, so there was no competition for the space and the street wasn't busy. The bikes were already propped just inside the shop door and the rear hatch was open. I had just stepped over the pavement and inside the shop when a parkie literally fell out of the sky and started taking pictures of the car. I went straight out with a bike and he asked me if I was loading or not. He stood at the passenger door for about ten minutes and watched me take the wheels and seats off then load and secure everything. I closed the car and went to collect the receipts. When I came out he was taking pictures and logging the time because I wasn't loading any more and he determined that I was shopping. The manager came out of the shop and started having a go because he had had about ten customers done in the past month for parking in a clearly marked loading bay while they were in collecting or delivering their bikes. I was lucky and didn't get a ticket.

 

[John Laidlaw]

Does it count from the wheels or the car hanging over?

Any part of the car....

 

[Frosty149]

Any part of the car....

Really, I thought that it was wheels and your bodywork could overhang?
Really not certain though...
I've been taking some chances if your right...

 

[A.J.]

Really, I thought that it was wheels and your bodywork could overhang?
Really not certain though...
I've been taking some chances if your right...

I was of the opinion that it was only the wheels too I must have been lucky then. It wouldn't happen in our town anyway, we havn't got any traffic wardens, people do just what they like here !!

 

[John Laidlaw]

https://www.askthe.police.uk/content/Q892.htm

 

[turbopete]

You could always sat that you parked inside the lines and someone behind you must have nudged you forward to get in or out while you were away.

I just refuse to take my car into Edinburgh now. The parkies are like "flies around a sh*te". I recently collected two new bikes at Canonmills and parked in the clearly marked "Loading Area" outside the shop. There were two empty loading spaces behind me, so there was no competition for the space and the street wasn't busy. The bikes were already propped just inside the shop door and the rear hatch was open. I had just stepped over the pavement and inside the shop when a parkie literally fell out of the sky and started taking pictures of the car. I went straight out with a bike and he asked me if I was loading or not. He stood at the passenger door for about ten minutes and watched me take the wheels and seats off then load and secure everything. I closed the car and went to collect the receipts. When I came out he was taking pictures and logging the time because I wasn't loading any more and he determined that I was shopping. The manager came out of the shop and started having a go because he had had about ten customers done in the past month for parking in a clearly marked loading bay while they were in collecting or delivering their bikes. I was lucky and didn't get a ticket.

cant comment about Scotland, but here in England, a loading bay can be used for 20 mins. or at least that was the case last I heard. things may have changed since then

 

[John Laidlaw]

cant comment about Scotland, but here in England, a loading bay can be used for 20 mins. or at least that was the case last I heard. things may have changed since then

i think it’s still the same Pete and also in Scotland

 

[Westheath]

Bit ignorant this, Ive seen punch up's with more room than you left them.
There's probably a Fiat 500 forum somewhere with "Really" Mercedes driver blah blah blah.

 

[Frosty149]

https://www.askthe.police.uk/content/Q892.htm

Thanks John,
pretty clear then...
Whoops

 

[00slk]

Plenty of room to get the Fiat out of that gap not enough room to park a Mercedes E Class in the space you parked though

 

[bob 6600]

You could always sat that you parked inside the lines and someone behind you must have nudged you forward to get in or out while you were away.

I just refuse to take my car into Edinburgh now. The parkies are like "flies around a sh*te". I recently collected two new bikes at Canonmills and parked in the clearly marked "Loading Area" outside the shop. There were two empty loading spaces behind me, so there was no competition for the space and the street wasn't busy. The bikes were already propped just inside the shop door and the rear hatch was open. I had just stepped over the pavement and inside the shop when a parkie literally fell out of the sky and started taking pictures of the car. I went straight out with a bike and he asked me if I was loading or not. He stood at the passenger door for about ten minutes and watched me take the wheels and seats off then load and secure everything. I closed the car and went to collect the receipts. When I came out he was taking pictures and logging the time because I wasn't loading any more and he determined that I was shopping. The manager came out of the shop and started having a go because he had had about ten customers done in the past month for parking in a clearly marked loading bay while they were in collecting or delivering their bikes. I was lucky and didn't get a ticket.

That's just arrogance from the warden. I've had a ticket before for parking in a loading bay and 'not loading'. Problem was that I was loading, but I refused to leave my car wide open on a busy main road to be robbed and then being unable to claim on insurance as the vehicle was not secure. I obtained an invoice from the shop I was parked outside (and was inside) and they quashed the ticket.

 

[d215yq]

Out of interest I'm back in the UK soon for a week and will have to drive/park and what is the correct amount of room and parking etiquette? Here the amount given above is positively generous, I regularly have to get out with 3 inches either side - I once got in with only 8" spare, though we are "allowed" to touch park here.

Now it stresses me parking in the UK as I have no idea where the rear bumper is on my car as here it is simply reverse gently until you touch. Though I am pretty sure that reversing to a touch at a very low speed does no damage whatsoever but wouldn't try it unless that's the done thing (it used to be in parts of london)? Here the damage picked up is from when people scuff the front corner when exiting a parking space, or the more moronic version of touch park which is reverse at 10mph until you hear a bang. I've seen a transit do that to my car before and cave his bumper in while the good old reinforced W124 bumper stayed straight...

 

[Headhurts]

Out of interest I'm back in the UK soon for a week and will have to drive/park and what is the correct amount of room and parking etiquette? Here the amount given above is positively generous, I regularly have to get out with 3 inches either side - I once got in with only 8" spare, though we are "allowed" to touch park here.

Now it stresses me parking in the UK as I have no idea where the rear bumper is on my car as here it is simply reverse gently until you touch. Though I am pretty sure that reversing to a touch at a very low speed does no damage whatsoever but wouldn't try it unless that's the done thing (it used to be in parts of london)? Here the damage picked up is from when people scuff the front corner when exiting a parking space, or the more moronic version of touch park which is reverse at 10mph until you hear a bang. I've seen a transit do that to my car before and cave his bumper in while the good old reinforced W124 bumper stayed straight...

Are you serious?

I would be really p****d off if someone touch parked my car, I would also be annoyed if not left enough room to manoeuvre my car.

Can you post on here where you will be driving/parking please.



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