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SALFORD TAXI DRIVER GIVEN PARKING TICKET WHILE USING RAMP TO COLLECT DISABLED WOMAN
A taxi driver was given a parking fine while he was using a ramp to assist a dis- abled woman into his cab. The Manchester Eve- ning News reports that Darren Red- shaw, a Salford- based hackney driv- er, was picking up two elderly women from outside the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester
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month. The women, who both have mobility problems, were at- tending a show with two carers from their nursing home. One woman requir- ed a wheelchair, while the other
struggled to walk unaided. Darren pulled into a lay-by outside the venue a few minutes before the show was due to end. He got out of the cab to pull out a ramp onto the kerb and assist- ed the woman in the wheelchair into the vehicle. But as Dar- ren was helping her he said a traffic war- den appeared at the window. The traffic warden reportedly told him he was not allowed to stop there and slapped a parking fine on his wind- screen. Darren, 55, is now planning to appeal
the parking fine. He told the M.E.N: “We have to go kerb side to pull a ramp out onto the pave- ment. I came up and took the wheelchair lady into the taxi. “There is a lay-by right outside the front door where coaches pull into. I pulled the ramp out,
I stood at the door. “A warden was at the window shout- ing at me. The traffic warden said: ‘You can’t stop here’. “I said ‘What do you mean? I have been doing this for 25 years, I am just pick- ing up I am not parking’. “He got his comput-
er out and put a ticket on my wind- screen. I didn’t want to argue with him.” Darren added: “The woman in the wheelchair was very upset. I have never had anything like this happen in my life. “I was not stopping, I was just loading. The lady in the wheelchair is 70- plus, the other lady is 60-plus. A spokesman for Manchester City Council said: “An appeals process is in place for anybody who feels that they have been given a parking ticket in error and we en- courage people to
use this, so that we can formally review the circumstances in which it was issued.” According to the Bridgewater Hall website the lay-by is a designated wheel- chair drop-off point, but drivers are not allowed to park there even if they hold a blue badge. Mmmm… Oh, come on! The warden could see clearly that the driver was merely loading and not park- ing and assisting a wheelchair bound passenger as well The driver’s appeal must include the Bridgewater Hall’s written consent to use that lay-by – Ed.
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