Rip off councils or poor traffic wardens.?

Question

Now the councils are going to send fines through the door for people parking illegal. does this mean that all cameras in all areas will profit out of this. and might i say the traffic wardens cannot see as far as their noses. because when it starts give it six month`s. And you will see less traffic wardens they are going to find themselves out of work. another big rip off.

Answer 1

Just another tax levied on the motorist by corrupt and inefficient Councils.

I used to look down on certain US states and Counties for doing this sort of thing as an example of a Banana Republic. Sadly in UK we are nearly there

Answer 2

you wont see traffic wardens on the streets any more cos they will stay at home serve the net for legit number plates and just post off the fines. a lot of people wont remember where they were two weeks ago , so trying to deny it will be hard to do. ANOTHER THEIVING RIP OFF.this cuntry sucks.

Answer 3

It's rip of councils, setting the Traffic Wardens unrealistic targets for the number of vehicles they MUST ticket each day.

It's the Chief Executive of the council, and the Department heads can give them 6 figure salaries each month.

Answer 4

Sounds like another scam to me in a country where yet again fairness and justice have been removed from the equation.  Fair enough if a genuine offence has been committed, then take the penalty on the chin.  However, in Old Britain, when a member of the public had an accusation made against him, he used to have some right to defend himself, and supposedly have the right to a fair trial.

If you return to your car and find an erroneous parking ticket on it, at least it gives you the opportunity to note the circumstances of your parked car.  You would have the opportunity to record street signs, the position of your vehicle, the road and kerb markings, and any other relevant evidence.  If you have a camera or a camera phone on you, you would be able to take photographic evidence.  If other vehicles adjacent to you are also erroneously ticketed, you would have opportunity to leave messages on windscreens or wait for the other drivers to return to assist in defending inappropriate cases.

Receive a parking ticket 2 weeks (and no doubt 2 weeks will become 3 weeks, and will then become 4) after an alleged offence, then the opportunity to preserve and record evidence is denied.  People’s memories will have faded over one week, let alone 2 weeks, over detail of the exact parking situation.  Return to the scene of the offence may not be practicable if you live miles away.  Even if you did return to the scene, there is no guarantee that for example road or kerb markings have not been repainted.

An allegation could be made about obstruction, if your vehicle was overhanging or "near to" a lowered kerb.  "Near to" is subjective, and the ability to contest the allegation will have been denied, if you have not had the opportunity to measure or photograph the distance of car in relation to the alleged obstruction.

Considering the cost of contesting erroneous allegations(including having to take time off work plus legal fees)  and the fact that evidence will have been destroyed, there will be many innocent motorists that will just pay the fine, hit by just one more stealth tax that denies the liberty of enjoying often hard earned wages.  Heaven help the low waged, the pensioners, and those on benefits through no fault of their own.  The fines do not take into account income and the ability to pay, but are fixed penalty; thus the weight of the penalties disproportionately hit the less well off.  Fair enough if you knowingly commit an offence, then it could be argued that the parking tariff was known, but unfair and unjust if someone genuinely parked legally, but is denied the chance to prove this.