How many parking tickets can you get?

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Thu 21 Feb 2008 08:59
How many parking tickets can you get? - Mapmaker
Ten days ago, I parked my car in a residents' parking space in Westminster - in W1 (for which I have a valid parking permit).

This morning I noticed the car had two parking tickets on it. I had managed to park partly on a spot which had a single yellow line between two areas of residents' parking. It was dark and the portion of the yellow line I had parked on was so badly worn that it is scarcely visible.

I consider myself hugely lucky only to have received two tickets - on 11th and 12th, and not to have been towed away.

Equally, how often can one receive a penalty ticket? Every time a parking attendant passes? More often? And how come no other of those rather efficient parking attendants in Westminster managed to give me a ticket during this period?

::Fuming:: Oh yes, and I get to pay the congestion charge too for the privilege of moving my car this morning.
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Thu 21 Feb 2008 10:24
How many parking tickets can you get? - Ravenger
If the yellow line is worn and broken, it's invalid. No permitted variants are allowed for yellow lines, so any deviation from the specification renders them invalid.
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Thu 21 Feb 2008 10:31
How many parking tickets can you get? - Mapmaker
OK, it is in fact badly faded - a nearby section has been repaired where roadworks have been undertaken and it is bright yellow.
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Thu 21 Feb 2008 11:46
How many parking tickets can you get? - Alan
I believe that you could get a ticket every two hours so you you could end up in serious doo doo.
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Sat 23 Feb 2008 10:48
How many parking tickets can you get? - Mapmaker
According to the parking attendant I asked this morning - who covers this part of Westminster, one every 24 hours.

Given the second was issued only 22 hours after the first...

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