The Retirement Thread

[Juan Kog]

Ufortunetly not, I'm going to have to treat it collateral damage.

Trying to be positive, at least you have your Fixed back on the road .so you can spin out that anger and frustration.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Appeal against it, Dave.

I did the annual Yorkshire Dales forum ride with a mate a few years ago. We parked in a car park and paid enough to cover all day. We got back and there was a parking ticket on the windscreen. £60 fine!

The reality was that my mate had impatiently rested the stick-on label under the windscreen rather than sticking it to the windscreen and it seemed to have blown down onto the driver's seat when he got out of the car. Still, it was easily visible from outside so the parking warden hadn't exactly searched for it.

I sent the council this photo which showed that we had bought the ticket at 09:32 and were covered until 18:32. They let us off.

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I think it is perfectly reasonable for you not to have spotted that the payment hadn't gone through and it is obvious that you had intended to pay.

Kick up a stink about it and if they don't back down tell them that you will spread it all over social media that they are targeting low income OAPs in hospital car parks!

The hospital car park operators here are infamous in the city and will rip off anybody, at the moment the payment is £60, but will go up to £100 if I don't pay before the 22 of this month, if i try and contest it all they will say is "you should have read the ticket", and whilst I'm contesting it I'm risking the higher fee, no its not a battle I'm likely to win so pay up and move on, I've got enough on my plate without adding to it.

 

[PaulSB]

@12boy think I'll ask this here to avoid controversy. I've read of the terrible and sad incident in Nevada. I've often wondered where people ride in large countries, America, South Africa, Australia are places which spring to mind.

Is it normal for people to use a road of this apparent size to ride?

 

[Dave7]

Ufortunetly not, I'm going to have to treat it collateral damage.

Horrible
I hate those money grabbing b*stards.
The least you can do is appeal. You should at least try.
I have had a few over the years and tbh only one appeal has been successful but at least you will have tried.

 

[ColinJ]

Is it normal for people to use a road of this apparent size to ride?

I was thinking that too...

Just one look at the little photo told me that I would not want to ride that road. Obviously, the cyclists did not deserve what happened to them but it didn't look like a good idea to be there.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Horrible
I hate those money grabbing b*stards.
The least you can do is appeal. You should at least try.
I have had a few over the years and tbh only one appeal has been successful but at least you will have tried.

I don't want to pick a fight with an organization that I've got little chance of winning.

 

[BoldonLad]

I don't want to pick a fight with an organization that I've got little chance of winning.

No help at present, but, can you not acquire a blue badge if your good lady is wheelchair user?, and/or a “season ticket” for hospital parking, if she requires frequent visits?

 

[Deleted member 1258]

No help at present, but, can you not acquire a blue badge if your good lady is wheelchair user?, and/or a “season ticket” for hospital parking, if she requires frequent visits?

My good lady has a blue badge, and has a disabled parking bay outside our house. I don't know about season tickets, its something I'll have to look into

 

[Dave7]

I don't want to pick a fight with an organization that I've got little chance of winning.

I agree. But one phone call or email is worth a punt.
My appeal 2 months ago........
..........
Failed.
But I had a go

 

[12boy]

Yes and no. People in groups ride roads like that and I do around here at times. On the other hand in the western states there are some towns of significant size but apart from these major metropolitan areas many towns are a long ways apart. No water or restaurants, sometimes for 50-60 miles, although towns are more frequent along the interstates. There are 8 towns on 1-25 between Colorado on the south and Montana to the north which is about 320 miles. Smaller highways, like the ones shown in Nevada are much more desolate. In a post from couple of days ago I mentioned a guy riding up from Rawlins to Casper, a 140 mile trip with one gas station about midway. In the summer there are occasional riders in groups with a support vehicle touring around the state, especially around Yellowstone National Park which is 3400 sq miles. Wyoming has a population of 500, 000, for 99,000 sq miles and about 200,000 of those live in the 5 largest towns. Lot of Big Empty around here. The UK, I understand, is also about 99, 000 sq miles so imagine if only 500,000 people lived there.

 

[classic33]

I'm annoyed this afternoon! My Good Ladies last hospital appointment, I paid for parking by card and got a reciept, this afternoon I got a parking ticket. Looking at the ticket right at the bottom it says in small letters payment void card not charged, meaning it hadn't gone through. so I'm now sixty quid down.

Despite what it says on the receipt, check that the money hasn't been taken from the account. It can take up to 48 hours to show, but let your bank know as soon as possible. The fact it gave you a receipt shows something was done.

Transaction Void should appear in main part of any receipt, not as small print along the bottom.

 

[GM]

@12boy think I'll ask this here to avoid controversy. I've read of the terrible and sad incident in Nevada. I've often wondered where people ride in large countries, America, South Africa, Australia are places which spring to mind.

Is it normal for people to use a road of this apparent size to ride?

I read that as well on FB's cycling past 50 page, very sad if this is the one....

 

[classic33]

I don't want to pick a fight with an organization that I've got little chance of winning.

Go after the hospital*, they are a contractor working on their behalf.

*CEO of the trust. It'll trickle down from them, but never work up to them.

 

[oldwheels]

My good lady has a blue badge, and has a disabled parking bay outside our house. I don't know about season tickets, its something I'll have to look into

Normally you should not have to pay if a blue Badge is displayed but in some places there is a time limit and you should have a rotary indicator of some kind to set the start time.
Unfortunately some private car parks do not recognise a Blue Badge but a hospital you would expect to be ok unless they do not own the car park.
Get at the hospital management and you should get an answer of some kind.
I have a Blue Badge and my wife had one as well and we never had any problems in hospital, or indeed any other car parks.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Normally you should not have to pay if a blue Badge is displayed but in some places there is a time limit and you should have a rotary indicator of some kind to set the start time.
Unfortunately some private car parks do not recognise a Blue Badge but a hospital you would expect to be ok unless they do not own the car park.
Get at the hospital management and you should get an answer of some kind.
I have a Blue Badge and my wife had one as well and we never had any problems in hospital, or indeed any other car parks.

They use a private firm to run the hospital carpark