Car Parking Ticket

[DeniseC37553]

I recently recieved a car parking ticket. When i arrived at car park I only had enough money to pay for 1 hour(price 70p) so I paid for one hour and went to get some more change, I then purchased another ticket for a further 2 hours (�.1.40) Total paid �2.10 because the total amount came to �2.10 the price for 3 hours I believed this covered me for 3 hours parking starting from the time of the original one hour ticket. can I appeal?"

[foxyferret]

you could try. Maybe what has happened is the expiry time on the ticket you got for �1.40 was maybe only 10 mins or so or however long it took you to get change, after the expiry time on the original ticket for 70p. I don think they run on one after the other. I am assuming of course that it is one of those machines that actually give you an expiry time. If it was a ticket from a council machine, I guess you could check with them. Don't know if this will help you, just tried to work out what may have happened.

[CheekyChops]

The 2 hour ticket will run out 2 hours after you paid for it, not two hours after the one hour ticket runs out.

So if you bought the 1 hour at 1:00pm and then the 2 hour at 1:10pm, the time will run out at 3:10pm and not 4:00pm.

So no, I don't think that you have a leg to stand on.

[Postdog]

This happened to me, and I got threatened with court. It was the council back then, and because I kept both tickets, I argued that I had paid the correct fee, albeit not with one ticket. If you have kept tickets, send copies rather than originals so they don't end up "lost".

You can only try.

[denis567]

Technically this is 'feeding the machine' and if you look at the conditions, posted at the machine site, it will state that this is not allowed, so I don't think you will not succeed with an appeal, it is worth a try though.

[Postdog]

I don't see it machine feeding - I still think that providing you got the next ticket well before the first elapsed, you'd have a genuine case to argue.

[paraffin]

Hi Denise:

Two questions for you:

1. How long was the sum total of the time shown at the START of the 70p ticket to the time shown at the END of the �1.40 ticket? i.e. 1pm - 4pm / 1pm - 3.30pm etc. etc.

2. What time was the parking ticket written out?

[New Judge]

For heavens� sake!

The period of parking allowed ended when the latest expiry time (i.e. that on the two hour ticket) was reached. Simple.

Parking attendants cannot be expected to look at two tickets, add the fees together, calculate how much time in total was paid for, add that on to the issue time of the first ticket (if it is shown) and determine a new expiry time (which is what they would have to do). That�s why they print the expiry time in big bold numbers.

There is also the issue of �feeding� which has been raised. Many car parks allow only �one ticket per visit� so even if your argument was valid as far as the time paid for was concerned (which it isn�t) you may fall foul of the feeding rule.

I imagine the parking ticket was probably written out after the expiry of the two hour ticket but before the expiry of the three hours which you believe you paid for. (if it was written out before the two hour ticket expired you may have received a penalty under the "feeding"rule. If it was written after the three hours had expired you have no argument under any circumstances).

You can appeal to the operator�s better nature, but in my experience few of them have such a quality.