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Friday, June 10, 2011
Bat-mobile parked at 26:00pm half way up a wall
A very lucky group of 500 motorists in Bristol have recently discovered that they no longer have to pay the parking fines which they were issued. This can all be chalked up to errors on the part of the traffic wardens in the area.
The mistakes being recorded range from marking down the wrong location a car is parked in, to getting the times and even the details of the vehicles themselves wrong.
In fact it has been estimated that all the mistakes added together has cost the Bristol City Council over £17,000 in unenforceable fines.
This information was released via the Freedom of Information Act, which also brought to light how the authority normally makes around £2 million every year from parking fines by issuing about 6,000 tickets every month.
A council spokesman said, “If the revenue raised through the issuing of enforcement notices exceeds expenditure on parking services in any one year then the surplus is used in line with the requirements of Section 55 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984.”
For those of you wondering what Section 55 says – as we did before researching it – it says the surplus will then be used for things such as ensuring road safety through traffic lights, concessionary fares and traffic surveys.
Well that sounds good – but we’d quite like not to be given innacutate parking fines in the first place, thank you very much!
The mistakes being recorded range from marking down the wrong location a car is parked in, to getting the times and even the details of the vehicles themselves wrong. In fact it has been estimated that all the mistakes added together has cost the Bristol City Council over £17,000 in unenforceable fines.
This information was released via the Freedom of Information Act, which also brought to light how the authority normally makes around £2 million every year from parking fines by issuing about 6,000 tickets every month.
A council spokesman said, “If the revenue raised through the issuing of enforcement notices exceeds expenditure on parking services in any one year then the surplus is used in line with the requirements of Section 55 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984.”
For those of you wondering what Section 55 says – as we did before researching it – it says the surplus will then be used for things such as ensuring road safety through traffic lights, concessionary fares and traffic surveys.
Well that sounds good – but we’d quite like not to be given innacutate parking fines in the first place, thank you very much!
Image by alicegop via Flickr, under Creative Commons Licence
Labels: Bristol, motorist, parking fines, road safety, traffic wardens
Thursday, May 19, 2011
In-car shenanigans should be kept off the road
According to a survey reported on by the Belfast Telegraph more of us argue in our cars than get amorous.
The survey, carried out by a car insurance comparison website, stated that, out of the 2,000 pollsters, 47.5% of men and close to 30% of women claim to have indulged in bedroom activities in their car, while nearly 63% of women and close to 60% of men admitted to having argued in their cars.
Frankly, I fail to see why this is a surprise to anyone – in fact, I am astonished that the figures for in-car amorousness are as high as they are and anyone who has not argued with their children or partner during a long car journey must be an automaton.
But, of course, the results are qualified by the use of the word claim and, naturally, not all of those questioned may have been totally truthful when confessing to arguing in their cars.
If we’re going to be totally devoid of humour, we should of course profess that unless the car is completely stationary and the engine is switched off either activity is extremely dangerous and has the potential to cause a car accident.
So, for the sake of road safety, we implore you – leave your anger in a lay-by and keep your ardour for….anywhere else really.
Happy driving!
The survey, carried out by a car insurance comparison website, stated that, out of the 2,000 pollsters, 47.5% of men and close to 30% of women claim to have indulged in bedroom activities in their car, while nearly 63% of women and close to 60% of men admitted to having argued in their cars.
Frankly, I fail to see why this is a surprise to anyone – in fact, I am astonished that the figures for in-car amorousness are as high as they are and anyone who has not argued with their children or partner during a long car journey must be an automaton.But, of course, the results are qualified by the use of the word claim and, naturally, not all of those questioned may have been totally truthful when confessing to arguing in their cars.
If we’re going to be totally devoid of humour, we should of course profess that unless the car is completely stationary and the engine is switched off either activity is extremely dangerous and has the potential to cause a car accident.
So, for the sake of road safety, we implore you – leave your anger in a lay-by and keep your ardour for….anywhere else really.
Happy driving!
Image © OakleyOriginals via Flickr, under Creative Commons Licence
Labels: car accident, car insurance, road safety