Parking Tickets

[breadstick]

How many have you had? i got my 3rd today nobody's fault but mine :(

[Dodger666]

In over 50 years of driving I've had one, and that was for being 5 minutes over at a pay & display.

[ummmm]

I can't remember. The last one I got I appealed and got left off. I did have a genuine reason though.

[Baldric]

46 years driving, 1 Parking Ticket (my fault)
and on another occasion 3 points for speeding.
So not too bad, (have got away with murder over the years ;-)

[ladyalex]

Three or four Parking tickets..but thankfully none for some time now.
(Not driving as much probably accounts for that.)
I cannot blame anyone but myself either....the rules may seem unfair sometimes, but I did break them so had to face the consequences.
My method of dealing with them was to pay them immediately then forget about them...and I tended to shut up about them to my family too. If asked, would not deny, but didn't volunteer the info.
Just cough up and carry on.

[hc4361]

Never had a parking ticket, nor a speeding ticket. Obviously I don't have a rebellious streak

[ummmm]

I've never had a speeding ticket.

[Buenchico]

I got one that I really should have contested but I simply paid anyway. It was in the days when, as well as double and single yellow lines, there were also dashed (broken) yellow lines to indicate parking restrictions only applied at limited times. I was looking for a parking space outside an auction site in Norfolk and spotted a nice big gap, which I could easily get my car into. As I got out of my car I looked to check that I'd not inadvertently parked on any yellow lines; I hadn't. However I returned to find I'd got a parking ticket because the yellow dashes on the road had actually been marked so far apart that one started by the front wheels of the car ahead of me and the next was by the rear wheels of the car behind me but my (completely non-yellow-lined) bit in the middle was still covered by the parking regulation! Grrrr!

Other than that, I've had just one ticket for overstaying on a Pay-&-Display car park after becoming engrossed in a secondhand book shop for far too long.

I've also had to pay an 'after hours release fee', from a car park in Stratford, after I'd been stuck on a failed Central Line train for ages, preventing me from getting back to the car park before it closed.

[Buenchico]

^^^Add my name to the list of people with no speeding tickets.

[ladyalex]

mine too^

[paddywak]

No parking tickets but in my early driving career I'm ashamed to admit I collected quite a few speeding tickets but since 2000 when I had my stroke I've been a good boy and in general I've stuck to the limits and kept a clean licence.

[excelsior-1]

no speeding or parking tickets here

[fairycakes69]

Had 2, put the wrong part of the ticket on display, so got a ticket, my fault should have paid more attention.
We don't have traffic wardens in my area any more so parking has become a free for all, it's really not good. Never thought I'd say bring back the traffic wardens.

[Prudie]

I think I've probably had 2 but not for a very long time. I've had 5 SP30 tickets, 3 of them on exactly the same piece of road. Only myself to blame.

[Psybbo]

2, one that we should have appealed as it was a car park on Sunday in Ayr with no very obvious warning notice and street parking was free! The other in an area that was later free!

[mrs_overall]

I have had 3 tickets from different car parks covered by those private (cowboy) companies. I sent them all letters explaining why I was refusing to pay. On each occasion I was innundated with threatening letters for a few months and then they stopped.
I may be tempting fate here, but I have never had any other sort of ticket and I have had a clean driving licence since I was 17.

[campbellking]

None personally, and no driving offences either.