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 [...]
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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 [...]
London drivers consulted about parking fines
From the BBC; Motorists in London are being consulted on how much they should pay for parking fines. Drivers will also be questioned about what levels of fines should be imposed for entering bus lanes and box junctions, and how much it should cost to be released from wheel clamps. It is part of a [...]
100 extra CCTV cameras mean more parking fines in Westminster
The number of motorists fined for parking offences in central London will rise from today as 100 CCTV “spy” cameras are switched on. The move follows a reprieve of nearly a year for drivers after the wireless cameras had to be switched off because they did not meet Department for Transport guidelines on image quality. [...]
Harrow Street is paved in gold and carpeted with traffic fines
Station Road in Harrow really is paved with gold – after generating more traffic and parking fines in a year than any other street in London. In the financial year 2008/09, 28,884 drivers were caught doing something illegal along the arterial route – raising at least £1.5million for the council. The road stretches for over [...]