Motorists were urged today to challenge tickets to beat “intimidation” by London councils. Campaigners said drivers were frightened off by threats of fines doubling if they appealed — when the odds are actually stacked in their favour. Britain’s largest motoring organisation, the AA, joined calls to make it easier for drivers to appeal. Of the [...]
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Pressure on parking wardens will send their wages soaring
Parking attendants will regularly double their wages as London’s town halls urge them to issue more tickets to raise money to offset government cuts. The warning follows revelations that a warden in one of the most deprived boroughs earned more than £50,000 last year. Known as a Tower Hamlets Enforcement Officer, he earned £52,786 — [...]
Drivers face Wardens equipped with £500 head-cams
Traffic Wardens in Bromley are being equipped with a £500 head-mounted digital video camera to snare motorists parked illegally. They have a hand-held computer which hooks into the DVLA and automatically recognises car registration details. Then it prints out a ticket. Councils say the equipment provides more details and helps motorists who want to appeal [...]
War on London drivers as army of traffic wardens hired to boost revenue
Drivers in central London face a new army of traffic wardens as councils use money raised from parking fines to plug the gap left by government cuts. Round-the-clock patrols will be mounted on the city’s busiest roads as Westminster council increases its number of attendants by 50 to 220. Westminster, which raised £41 million last [...]
Merton’s Undercover Traffic Wardens
Merton council in London has continued using undercover traffic wardens despite the fact that the Parking and Traffic Appeals service has been overturning many of the fines that have been issued by these underhand traffic officers. Regardless of this, Merton council has been spending over £4,000 a month to ensure its wardens are not recognised, [...]
Plain-clothes traffic wardens trapping motorists
A London council has been using the covert tactics despite the Parking and Traffic Appeals service overturning fines issued by non-uniformed officers. Merton council is spending more than £4,000 a month on privately hired cars for traffic wardens in a move they claim is “normal practice”. However, the Parking and Traffic Appeals Service called the [...]
Another parking fine for Hare Krishna charity food run
Parking wardens have been accused of waging a campaign against homeless people after claims that a van that gives food handouts was ticketed for the fifth time in two months. The Food for All Hare Krishna van has been a fixture in Camden for more than 25 years, serving free vegetarian food to the area’s [...]
Drivers baffled by 16 parking rules on road that’s netted Haringey council £564,000 in fines
Parking bosses were today accused of “deliberately exploiting” drivers at a London parking blackspot that has become the country’s most ticketed road. An “army” of parking attendants, backed up by CCTV, issue the equivalent of 33 tickets a day over the one-and-a-half-mile section of Green Lanes. The single stretch of road made Haringey council £564,000 in [...]
UK drivers will face £283 in fines in a lifetime
British motorists face the prospect of clocking up £283 in fines on average during their time behind the wheel, recent research has revealed. The total punishment for driving offences, including speeding and parking violations, works out at a staggering £10billion. Those in London rack up the highest lifetime tally, with an average of £680, while [...]
Councils’ camera cars rake in £8 million a year in fines
Councils are gathering £8million a year in parking and motoring fines with a fleet of new camera cars. A study by Big Brother Watch found just 54 of the modified Smart cars have punished an astonishing 188,000 motorists. The survey found 31 councils across Britain have versions of the popular town car modified with a [...]