Badger_Boom
Veteran
- Location
- York
For the consultation they just published a list of about 80 streets with a link to what changes they planned to make. Presumably each will get its own TRO if/when the time comes.
A pavement parking odyssey
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For the consultation they just published a list of about 80 streets with a link to what changes they planned to make. Presumably each will get its own TRO if/when the time comes.
DCLane
Found in the Yorkshire hills ...
- Location
- Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
Reported a driver parked on zig-zags, on their phone, on Saturday. West Yorkshire are taking action.
Also, one from Friday that I submitted this afternoon as I couldn't work out how to get the video from the car dashcam onto my phone / PC. This one used the pavement / grass / wrong part of the road to bypass traffic on a dual carriageway. It may be a bit late but I'll see what happens.
Also, one from Friday that I submitted this afternoon as I couldn't work out how to get the video from the car dashcam onto my phone / PC. This one used the pavement / grass / wrong part of the road to bypass traffic on a dual carriageway. It may be a bit late but I'll see what happens.
DCLane
Found in the Yorkshire hills ...
- Location
- Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
An update on Friday's bad driving - which just about fits here as they used the pedestrianised central reservation to overtake traffic: West Yorkshire Police are following it up with the driver.
Alien8
Senior Moment
- Location
- (A little bit north of) Cambridge
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Drago
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- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Someone has a lot of paperwork in their immediate future!
DCLane
Found in the Yorkshire hills ...
- Location
- Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
And probably some cake fines?
DCLane
Found in the Yorkshire hills ...
- Location
- Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
Having reported a vehicle parked on zig-zag lines blocking a pedestrian crossing back on the 21st of December last year, today they were back doing it again.
West Yorkshire Police took action last time. Hopefully they'll do it again and - maybe - this time it'll start to hurt. Particularly as it's a 75-plate Merc GLE so expensive insurance.
West Yorkshire Police took action last time. Hopefully they'll do it again and - maybe - this time it'll start to hurt. Particularly as it's a 75-plate Merc GLE so expensive insurance.
What kind of action? I don't suppose parking fines would have an effect on the insurance.
DCLane
Found in the Yorkshire hills ...
- Location
- Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
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Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Frowned upon now.
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Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
I doubt the outcome would be any different in terms of actually punishment, but cake fines are considered bullying and were on their way out almost a decade ago when i went..
In the old barely-post-PACE days when I joined you've be called into the area commanders office (back then a full chief supernintendo) and shouted at until you've were quivering. Then, if you were lucky, you'd be facing a £100 fine to be donated to a charity of his choice.
If you were unlucky it would be a full misconduct job (not a 'disciplinary' as the idiot media report it) where you could be in serious sheet, but that would take something very serious to trigger and would be done with fairly swiftly.
I think back then that car would have been the bollarding, the £100 charity donation, and a 6 month to a year hold on any career plans you might have. A punishment meaningful enough to make you think twice next time, that didn't keep an experienced bobby out of circulation for 2 years on restricted duties while civilians who had never walked a beat investigated it, and which was over and done with then and there.
Today it'd be a full investigation that might take a year or more, a hearing, the public invited to watch, and an enormous waste of everyone's precious time for likely a good bollarding from the area commander, a written warning, and 6 month to a year hold on any career plans you might have...
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Aside from restrictive parking on new estates theres the barking arrangement of corner houses that have their parking spaces at the end of the garden. Plainly obvious the occupiers are going to park smack outside their front door and most likely on the pavement.
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Drago
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- Suburban Poshshire
As a parish councillor I deal with this on my manor.
One extreme case involved a family of motorists who utterly obliterated the wide verge outside their house. A log of VRMs over a period of time demonstrated it was only them doing it, and instantly pre-empted and negated any defence they might invent.
They were given a choice of pay £1500 for the district council to dig it over and re turf it, or face court. They got a contractor of their own in to repair it, which is what we'd quietly hoped they'd do but couldn't officially ask for.
A year on theyve started creeping back on and its beginning to get churned up again so the lesson seems to have been quickly forgotten.
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