Just a thought, though. Do you have to get a free parking ticket from the machine and display it in your car window while making a quick stop to recycle a few cans, bottles or newspapers? I risked it today (Sunday), there being no sign of the "parking police" in the vicinity, and also because there were so few cars about it was possible to get within a few yards of the long line of recycling bins. But this won't always be the case. So our advice - other than on quiet Sunday mornings - is to get a ticket to avoid getting a ticket.
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If you're not parking, or if parked in a parking bay for less than five minutes, so you can recycle your rubbish, I suggest that you don't need to get a ticket, Scoopers.
ReplyDeleteThe 'parking police', in such circumstances have to give drivers a timing allowance - 5 minutes - this time allowance also allows newly arrived drivers to park their cars, nip and get a ticket....before the parkie can pounce.
Obviously. if you have a whole pile of recyclables and have parked the opposite side of the car=park, then it would be wise to get a ticket to avoid any possible confusion if. or when the parkie arrives.
This 5 minutes allowance does not apply in such circumstances, for example, where a non-blue badge holder parks in a disabled bay.
And talking about blue badge holders and parking - some folks park on the yellow lines just outside the Red Cross shop on Wrawby St while taking donations into the charity shop - the area is not ideal, but, dare I say, no one really objects, because such drivers are only parked for a short while and are quickly on their way.
However, a blue badge holder parked on that confined corner last week and then ambled off into Brigg.
OK blue badge holders are given extra allowance for where they can park - but this does not extend to double yellow lines and situations that can cause obstructions....
The resultant circumstances of the blue-badged car being left just outside the Red Cross shop - on double yellow lines and a potential obstruction hazard - was that traffic in Cross St came to halt; a lorry needed a wide turning circle to enter Wrawby St, but such an arc was hindered by the blue-badged car......cars in Cross St were sandwiched and going nowhere for 30 mines between the initial lorry and another lorry that had entered from Bigby St.
After 30 minutes the disabled driver returned, unaware of the chaos caused by his selfish actions, he was claiming he had the right to park anywhere!!
No, he hasn't....