The number of parking tickets has recently increased 4 fold meaning around 1 in 10 motorists will get a parking fine. There is also talk in Government during these hard times of doubling parking fines for motorists. All in the name of road safety and making traffic flow better? I seriously doubt it. The year …
Decriminalization in the 90′s provided parking control power to the Local Councils, and as a result, there has been a severe increase in the number of parking tickets handed out over there years. This small change has prompted more than a few people to appeal their parking tickets. Some people arguably say that parking tickets …
The ever rising cost of the parking ticket fine always raises certain questions in our head. The answer is however available if we backtrack to the Road Traffic Act of 1991 wherein it was put forward that the Local council was to invigilate the local traffic regulations and they were also responsible for issuing parking …
With the power of issuing a parking ticket being transferred to the Local Councils from that of the police, the number of tickets issued to motorists has seen a steady increase leading to many people taking course to appealing for a parking ticket. It is claimed by few sceptics and debaters that the reason behind …
Getting a parking ticket is probably the worse thing that can happen after you come back to your car. It usually leaves you with two options, firstly to pay the huge fine or in some cases appeal the ticket. But keep in mind that it is something that will not go away and if the …
Decriminalization in the 90′s provided parking control power to the Local Councils, and as a result, there has been a severe increase in the number of parking tickets handed out over there years. This small change has prompted more than a few people to appeal their parking tickets. There are many that state these parking …
Around 1 out of 10 motorists is getting ticketed nowadays since parking tickets have seen a fourfold increase in numbers. In view of the hard times, government is also planning to hike the parking fines per se. One doubts whether all these are at all for road safety and effective traffic flow management. Since the …
Due to complicacies of legal issues, the power to issue a parking ticket was transferred from the police to the local councils resulting in a huge increase in the sheer no. of tickets that are issued to motorists. Hence, there’s a growing practice of seeking appeal for such parking tickets by the motorists. Some people …
Getting a parking ticket is never a nice feeling upon returning to your car, nor is the fine a cheap one. This situation usually leaves you with two options; either you pay the fine or in a small amount of cases appeal the parking ticket. Whatever you do please do not ignore the parking ticket …
In analyzing why parking fines are so high in amount we need to first regress back to the Road Traffic Act of 1991 where the responsibility of regulating parking violations and issuing parking tickets were handed over to local councils. After the act was passed the task executed by the traffic wardens fell under the …