Do you always make sure that you are allowed to park where you are parking - in Pretoria as from today if?

Question

your car is towed away, it will cost you R525.00 to get it back from the pound

Answer 1

Good, there's nothing worse than the illiterate and ignorant group of neanderthals who park in paraplegic parkings and just about anywhere else they please, they should be fined R10 000 to get their vehicles back.

Taxis and 4X4 drivers are the biggest culprits but yet again, will this law be enforced?

I doubt it.

Answer 2

Cherie I am very good. I have never received a parking ticket ever. (Touch wood) and I agree with Bull people that parking in the disabled parking is really so selfish, their cars should be towed away and they should be given heftier fines. There is no excuse for them.

Answer 3

Cant they make the fine double for taxi's

Answer 4

I will not park anywhere 'illegal' and these huge fines serves people right. Is it not annoying seeing healthy people parking in space allocated for the disabled and elderly people. Man, I just hate that. All we are asking is that they are consistent in their approach and that the same is applied for taxis as well.

Answer 5

I went to the rugby 3 weeks ago at Absa Stadium,with my dad in his brand new Toyota Hilux,my friends parked next to us in their corsa,We paid R20 and even got a ticket from the parking attendants,when we came out our car was gone!We thought it was stolen because there were rows of other cars left and the corsa,the car gaurds were just gone,after 30mins of stress and phoning tracker and the police,we were told our car was at the pound and they want R750 for it,to this day we still don't understand why our car was there,no one can give us an explanation,and the guy that towed the car had already gone home by the time we got to the poubd

NOW HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN THIS?

Answer 6

I have had my fair share of vehicles being towed in Cape Town - Wynberg in particular - strangely I haven't experienced it here in Gauteng...

The best part is catching them towing your vehicle and then asking then if it is OK to catch a lift with them to the Traffic Department so that they can release the vehicle - which they refuse to do...

I used to stick an "old" pink fine on my window everytime I parked so that they would see it and not give me an additional fine - this back-fired on me BIG time - as the Traffic Cop then gathered that it had been parked there for a week and considered the vehicle "abandoned" - which carries a heavy fine (if I recall it was about R1200.00) and immediate towing...

It goes without saying I never tried that stunt again!!!