Grantcos

Guys i'm fuming mad.....
Today I parked in edinburgh, a place i never go, to go to the mary kings close tour thing. Well my Gf paid for the ticket saying thats good, £2 for 4 hours. Well we went to the tour at 3 and they said, come back at 6.40 for the tour ( great nice and booked up) . We thought we will go get something to eat and then put another ticket on the car so it would run out after 8pm rather than the 7pm as we thought it was going to.

Anyway we got back to the car a 16.01 and there was a bloody ticket on the car, the ticket ran out at 15.51, the fine was written at 16.00 - bastards 9 mins after it had ran out!! The gf got it wrong about the 4 hours, it was £2 per hour, max stay 4 hours. The wording was very small and not well written.

See my pics......
Thats my run around vectra in the pic.






Is there anything I can do, to not have to pay it.
I have never had a ticket before.
I was 9 mins out.
I never go into the city as i stay north of perth.
I was bringing economy into the city.
The script on the machine is very small.

Any help much appreciated

cossie4i+

iTrader: (15)

GF £ucked up so get her to pay

Steve

gary fraser

pay up mate, can clearly see it says £2 per hour max stay 4 hours, dont think you will get anywhere tryin to fight it, like cossie4i says get the missus to pay it lol.

vroooom ptssssh

Not got a leg to stand on i'm afraid...

Coldo

Yep, tough shit.

You're girlfriend fucked up. Council don't give a shit if you're bringing economy to the place either, you ripped them off for parking and got caught.

No point wasting your time/money contesting it.

ronf42

iTrader: (2)

dont think you stand a chance with contesting it TBH, BUT the papers did say the other week about "non existent legislation" as an ex police guy said
The former superintendent said the local authority had made a fatal error in the wording of the fines and has urged drivers to appeal the penalties or demand a refund.
Edinburgh City Council admit they are to introduce a new Traffic Regulation Order (TRO) but insist there was no issue in the first place.

Leithead, who is now an adviser to councils on decriminalised parking, said: "I believe Edinburgh's main TRO is not lawful.
"It refers to an initial charge for parking places with pay-and-display machines or meters - a term that shouldn't be there.
"When they decriminalised parking, the council were required to amend their TROs to remove the term because it came from a section of the Road Traffic Regulation Act redundant under the new scheme.
"But Edinburgh are still using 'initial charge' in the main TRO, which covers most of the city.
"A local authority can only do what they are empowered to do by law and Edinburgh are making charges under non-existent legislation."

Leithead, 69, said drivers who try to reclaim their fines have a very good case.
He added: "Motorists who have been fined while using a paid parking place have the strongest case.
"That's what the initial charge refers to. But others, such as those who got a ticket for being on yellow lines, could argue they have a case because the whole TRO is unenforceable due to the law."

Edinburgh City Council have issued 920,000 penalty charge notices in the last four years and collected around £7million in fines last year.
Chief executive Tom Aitchison rejected Leithead's claims. He said: "There's no provision in the legislation which necessitates the council to give the period when payment is required a certain name. Therefore, any term can be used."



But he said the council's new TRO changes the wording that Leithead says make the orders illegal. He added: "It removes the words 'initial charge'."

Ginger Will

I would pay the fine in the 14 days and save 50%

nacnac

could it be that your front end is outside the marked bay ?

Dangerous Malcolm..

Lesson learned, just pay up.

Mr.T

Hehe your GF fucked up good. This is gonna cost you money bud. You leaned 1 thing tho. Never ever let your gf pay something. It goes wrong somehow.

cjwood555

http://www.fmotl.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=20

cjwood555

and perhaps more usefully: http://fmotl.com/FixedPenaltyChargeNotice.htm

Grantcos

Ronf - Thats is great thank you for taking the time to post that up
Cjwood- That is a great link, thank you, i think i will copy that letter and give it a try, thanks for posting it

Other guys, yeah I know lesson learned