Never payed one (I've had quite a few) never had any bother from bailiffs. Like previous poster stated...just ignore anything to do with them. Rip letters up and throw in bin
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Never payed one (I've had quite a few) never had any bother from bailiffs. Like previous poster stated...just ignore anything to do with them. Rip letters up and throw in bin
And the special relationship DUP.
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Originally Posted by Silures
Telling people to ignore these fines is telling them to take a risk of it progressing so the conclusion that "it just goes away" is misleading and clearly, potentially, very expensive. I would, however, seek advice as not all parking fines are enforceable.
BBC Wales covered this and it seems more shades of grey than black and white which the headline "hospital workers taken to court over parking at hospital" would suggest.
I've lost count how many I've had from the asda by ccs eventually they give up with their bullshit letters
Seeing as several posters are advising others to ignore based on them getting away with it on several occasions, perhaps a ccmb fund for those less lucky? 50% of cost of ticket you didn't pay for and 50% of fine you didn't pay for either on the several historical times you have done this and the future occassion too.
I had a ticket about 18 months ago, my mrs wanted to pay it, I said " ignore it love I've read on ccmb that its ok to ignore and not to pay"
I had a few follow up letters and kept ignoring them after the advice on here.
I was county courted and it's shown on my credit score
I'll be paying them from now on
Thanks for the advice :(
Where did you have the ticket from?Quote:
Originally Posted by tigerbaybluebird
Asda carpark :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by jamieccfc
:hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by insider
You are seriously that stoopid 😁😁😁Quote:
Originally Posted by tigerbaybluebird
Was this from the hospital?Quote:
Originally Posted by tigerbaybluebird
If so, you're either lying or you're not telling the whole story.
I'm willing to add £20 to the fund for everyone that doesn't reply to the letters and ends up paying.Quote:
Originally Posted by surge
As long as you give me twenty quid for everyone that doesn't reply to the letters and gets away with it?
I'll say it again, the only reason these people are being ordered to pay is because they chose to involve themselves with the parking company. Meanwhile everyone else did the right thing and ignored their 'requests' to pay.
This is no longer the case unfortunately.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dr Lecter
In this case it is.Quote:
Originally Posted by Thoth
Otherwise, how else do you explain the fact that they've stopped sending letters for the many tickets they've dished out over the years to my missus and the 30 odd people she works with who simply ignore their requests to pay? The only difference between them and the people who have been ordered to pay is that the other lot chose to get involved with Indigo.
Ultimately it comes down to personal choice. If you think you have to pay then give them your money. People I know will just carry on putting their letters in the bin.
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Originally Posted by jamieccfc
From a company called new generation parking, i was parked in prospect place ferry court.
Unfortunately I was that stupid, I only found out when buying the new Mercedes but luckily I had a substantial amount of cash for a deposit so it passed the finance. :wave:Quote:
Originally Posted by JDerrida
Not exactly a Focus is it?Quote:
Originally Posted by tigerbaybluebird
I thought that company was a pay and display parking?Quote:
Originally Posted by tigerbaybluebird
My son recently was declined credit because of a CCJ he knew nothing about. He moved house about 18 months ago and during the move, incurred a parking ticket at Cardiff Gate Services (he thinks). This was sent to his previous address - hence the 'not knowing about it' bit. You can't ignore a ticket of which you are ignorant, can you?
Nothing much has changed here they were always enforceable, just most companies are unlikely to take it to court for a one off £60. Whereas this is worth pursuing
Park and ride to a hospital sounds like a flawed idea to me.
I know it might be considered revolutionary but when they decide to build or expand a hospital maybe they should make sure they build or expand the carpark to cope with the demand.
How is it a flawed idea? By far the best solution to alleviate parking pressure on site.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eric Cartman
Ok, so your revolutionary idea of building the carpark ( I believe the company charging took on the cost of building the car park ) or expanding ( and where exactly is it meant to expand - you want to compulsary purchase nearby houses? ) is itself flawed.
There are many things that could be done. Improve public transport. Car share for those on the same shifts. Park and ride from external sites. The reality is there are plenty of staff who park in surrounding roads causing problems and simply not giving a f*ck. They soon give a f*ck when they get ticketed. Christ, a neighbour had one twat park in his driveway!
So you get your Mercs on finance 😨😁Quote:
Originally Posted by tigerbaybluebird
Good for you home slice 😁
Whether or not nurses [and doctors ?] should have to pay for parking in work isn't the issue. The issue is should they have to pay for the thousands of parking tickets they've thrown into the bin on the way into work. The NHS/Trust agreed the contract with the Company running the car park[s], and they wouldn't have factored in hundreds of thousands of pounds in unpaid tickets.
I suspect that the British love-in with anything/anyone associated with the NHS may well have induced these staff to ignore the charges, assuming that no-one would dare ask for their money. I suspect if the Company waived these charges they would be setting an unwelcome precedent for themselves....
What I loved has been those claiming "we had to park illegally as we'd have been late for our shifts otherwise".Quote:
Originally Posted by A Quiet Monkfish
Novel idea, leave for work earlier if you're having problems parking.
Are patients meant to use it? I had crippling stomach surgery when I was a teenager. The idea that for our outpatient visits my mum would have to drive to the park and ride and then we would need to get on a bus to attend the visits is just absurd.Quote:
Originally Posted by ccfc_is_my_life
As for the rant at the end, as Lector said, you are mixing two completely different issues. The people running the hospital car park don't give people tickets for parking in your road. The people parking in your road are most probably doing it for one of 2 reasons:
1. They don't want to pay to park at work
2. They can't find a space to park at work
How do we solve the problem of people parking in your road? More spaces and don't charge for hospital parking. Job done.
Novel idea when your shift starts at 7 am and you have to work 12 hours and the first thing you have to attend with is someone dying, or dealing with bereaved relatives.Quote:
Originally Posted by ccfc_is_my_life
You know real life and death situations, not having to deal with cap like this.
Other Welsh hospitals have free parking so why can't UHW ?
I used to work there on Intensive Care, Coronary Care and Cardiac Surgery and parking is the last thing on ones mind as you're leaving for highly charged environments. At least it should be !!
You're believing park and ride means no car park spaces on site. It doesn't, it complements things to alleviate the problem. So your situation isn't what's being discussed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eric Cartman
The two issues are linked. It's self-entitlement for no valid reason. The people parking in our road are doing it for the reasons you gave yet are parking illegally on double yellows, parking illegally blocking pavements. That's classic self-entitlement especially when you point that out to them. "I paid my road tax" is the excuse most often given because magically NHS staff are allowed to park illegally or something... again, costly when they get the PCNs for their parking which are ones they can't ignore...
More spaces - where? No room on site at UHW for development of more car parking spaces. So that's out.
Don't charge for hospital parking - when contract ends that's what will happen. Quite how the latter is going to alleviate the space problem god knows because more will try to park there.
The park and ride solution is the best solution available. Definitely needs to be expanded, shift hours worked on, but the onus is to push mainly workers to park off site and bus them in freeing up spaces for patients and visitors.
Ah the "real life and death" issue to avoid the topic.Quote:
Originally Posted by JDerrida
UHW is going free parking when the contract ends - had heard it was next year. Parking is subsidised as it is.
I would imagine it needs to run 24 hours a day if it is intended for staff. If it is then still cost-effective and doesn't take forever then it is a good option. It doesn't take away from the fact that building a hospital without adequate provision for parking is just bad planning.Quote:
Originally Posted by ccfc_is_my_life
I use a park and ride at an airport quite frequently and the service is shockingly bad.
With regards to this bit. The website says it is intended for patients, visitors and staff so it very much would apply to my situation.Quote:
Originally Posted by ccfc_is_my_life
Well, the park and ride has been up and running 2 months from memory, it's to prove it can be effective, can be a long term thing. Hours need to be addressed to cater for shifts certainly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eric Cartman
It's all well and good talking about adequate provision for parking, reality is nowhere has adequate provision for parking. Aim is to reduce traffic (ha!). Given the new leader of Cardiff council is a keen cyclist, helping car drivers won't be top of the list. Equally, demand on UHW in terms of staff and patients, visitors keeps on rising. There's only a finite amount of land there.
Intended but not exclusive to is the key point. Aim is to push as many who can use that service and indeed want to use it. In your circumstance, it's entirely reasonable to want to park on site. For the large majority of staff and visitors along with a number of patients it can be a solution that restricts parking to the highest priority category.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eric Cartman
I notice the people who are whinging about the consequences of not paying a Parking ticket, are the ones who are going on about taking out finance, and getting turned down through bad credit score......... Getting into debt by taking out finance is lot more risky than ignoring a parking ticket ffs. I'd never take out hp and I'd never pay a parking ticket either. I pay cash for everything. A lot safer
I'd agree with regards to paying by cash but bizarrely, no credit score as pretty bad in it's own right.Quote:
Originally Posted by Silures
Needed to get a mortgage out so around a year before the went from renting to purchasing a house deliberately signed up to two credit cards, used them to establish a debt and then promptly paid back on time.
Bizarrely, you need to show you can manage debt to get a credit score...
UHW have been trialling a park and ride bus service from Pentwyn, seems to be going well, will need to be expanded.[/QUOTE]
That's really feckin' great for me, having it in Pentwyn, considering I live in Caerphilly, and pick my parents up in Rhiwbina!!
Ah the let's only focus on the parking (because it affects you) to avoid the 'real life and death' issues.Quote:
Originally Posted by ccfc_is_my_life
Very many employees in hospitals have to deal with serious issues.
What do you do for a living and do you have to pay to park ?
There used to be some allocated parking in the underground car parks.
Perhaps the wonderful management stopped that in an attempt to make money from staff.
At UHW, you have two major problems, not enough parking space during the day and plenty of space for night staff who have to pay.
Doctors, nurses and staff who are front line staff should be given parking permits.
When you have staff who are administering CPR or dealing with major issues, they should NOT have to be thinking about something as pathetic as a parking ticket.
What is more stressful, getting a parking ticket from some officious, jumped up parking attendant or trying to perform major surgery ?
UHW really need to get their priorities right.
That's really feckin' great for me, having it in Pentwyn, considering I live in Caerphilly, and pick my parents up in Rhiwbina!![/QUOTE]Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr Soul '68
Hence "will need to be expanded". Which as I posted elsewhere, included having it in different areas in addition...
Work from home, would love to pay for parking permit. When worked at client sites, parked where appropriate - and legally. if that meant car park, fine.Quote:
Originally Posted by JDerrida
Fact is, there's higher demand than there is parking space. There are things people can do - on same shift? Car share. That would alleviate if not solve some of the problems. There's no magic way of wishing massive expanses of land to emerge to build more car parking spaces on.
People can whine, pout about it but those in court were those who cynically and deliberately took the piss for a very, very long time and are now complaining because they were found to be in the wrong. The reality is tickets were written off. The fact is reduced penalties if paid quickly were put in. Parking is subsidised - and there's the moral issue that visitors, patients who are in a worse position pay more as a result. People took the piss and now want sympathy for doing so - any other sector and your view would be completely different.
As I understand it, the fees end in the next year or so in which case parking issues won't suddenly be resolved. People will flood there because they don't have to pay and even more chaos will ensue. Parking on double yellows which regularly happens there will attract tickets...
If you're seriously telling me NHS front line staff are failing to give adequate care due to thinking about the possibility of parking tickets... dear god...