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The recent snowy weather provided plenty of problems for the UK’s motorists as they tried to negotiate icy roads, poor visibility and sudden heavy snow fl urries, but one driver in Beachamwell, Norfolk had one more challenge to overcome. Returning to his snow- covered car at Downham Market railway station, he found a penalty charge notice attached to the windscreen, on top of a thick layer of snow with the reason for issuing the ticket cited as ‘unable to see valid parking ticket’. He wrote immediately to the company responsible for managing the car park, saying: ‘Dear car park attendant,
Please accept my sincere apologies for you not being able to see my valid parking permit and of course I will pay the £75 penalty fi ne without appealing or using this photo to prove your incompetency.’ No one from the station car parking team was available for comment.
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It is not just the parking profession in the UK that gets vilifi ed in the press. Mill Valley is a tourist destination in California, where visitors enjoy a range of shops and eateries. One visitor wrote to the local authority: ‘As a visitor to Mill Valley, I’ve been entranced by your lovely community with its welcoming stores and eateries. But the welcome stops with your misleading parking meter rules.
‘On Easter Sunday I left my car at a metered space without paying after reading on the meter that payment was required every day except holidays. I returned an hour later to a $28 parking ticket.’ When the motorist
complained, she was told that Easter was not a federally recognised holiday.
She added: ‘Without
disclosing which holidays count and which don’t,
Mill Valley deceives drivers. The city should add the words “federally recognised” to each meter’s label. That way, drivers would at least be forewarned that what they consider a holiday might not be one from the city’s point of view.’
www.britishparking.co.uk
CONSTANCE KNOX / SHUTTERSTOCK
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