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Sat 1 Sep 2007 21:47
Parking ticket question. - Badwolf
Evening all,

I was doing a job in London last weekend for the rugby and we were staying at the Jurys Inn hotel at Heathrow. The tour company had assured my boss that there was parking for my coach at the hotel but on arrival I was told that if I left my coach in the car park it'd be blown up by BAA! I was then advised to park on the A30 in a layby about a mile from the hotel. The A30 is a red route clearway and the layby I parked in had thick white dashed lines separating it from the carriageway and thinner dashed lines within the layby for parking in. The layby was full so I had to circle for a while until the space at the head of the layby became free. I couldn't fit my coach fully into the inner dashed line section, with the front end (probably less than a car length) sticking out at the front. The whole of the coach was, however, fully within the actual layby with no portion of it whatsoever encroaching on to the carriageway. Anyway, I came back the next morning to find a parking ticket on the screen. The reason for issue was 'allowing a vehicle to stop on a red route clearway'. This seems ridiculously harsh as no part of the coach was on the actual carriageway. Anyway, I took plenty of photos to show the position of the vehicle and to show that there were no signs to say that all vehicles must be parked within the inner marked bay.

Do I have a realistic chance of getting the the ticket cancelled? I hope so as if I have to pay it then I've just done a weekend's tour for half price!
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Sat 1 Sep 2007 21:51
Parking ticket question. - Altea Ego
Get your boss to pay for it. He said parking would be ok and it wasnt. His fault.
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Sat 1 Sep 2007 21:57
Parking ticket question. - Badwolf
It was the tour company we were working for who told us that there was parking at the hotel. To be fair my boss is being very good - he agrees with me that this seems a tad draconian and is taking it up with TfL. Not holding out much hope though - TfL have gone very anti-coach recently. Anybody'd think they didn't want tourists coming in spending their money...

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Mon 3 Sep 2007 08:57
Parking ticket question. - L'escargot
no part of the
coach was on the actual carriageway.


You'll probably find that Red Route clearway rules apply to both the carriageway and areas immediately adjacent to it. Similarly, yellow line rules apply to both sides of the line(s). The Highway Code department publishes a book "Know Your Signs", and since this subject has arisen I might get a copy of it.
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L\'escargot.
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Mon 3 Sep 2007 15:52
Parking ticket question. - Dwight Van Driver
From what stated looks like ther front of coach was on the 'red route' and as such offence?

dvd
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Mon 3 Sep 2007 16:09
Parking ticket question. - Badwolf
Hi dvd

Yes, the front of the coach was outside the *internal* marked bay but the whole coach was within the whole bay. How can they justify penalising me for parking somewhere where I am not causing any obstruction or impeding the flow of traffic one jot? Seems to me that TfL are just a load of money-making eejits who are intent on making bringing a coach into London as difficult and unpleasant as possible.
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Mon 3 Sep 2007 17:42
Parking ticket question. - Altea Ego
Not really wolfie. If you are outside a bay you are outside a bay, and into the red route regulations. Lets be honest here mate - It was a pretty poor choice of parking.
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