Parking rules for motorbikes?

[kaivalagi]

Originally Posted by simesb

The recommendation up here is that you write 'M/cycle' or somesuch on the ticket. Dunno if it works - don't use pay and display myself.

Originally Posted by collis

I know that in some carparks near me they ask for your reg when paying and displaying, this doesnt get printed on the ticked but it does get stored in the machine so i guess you could argue that you paied and if the machines records match then all is fine.
I'm also assuming (always dangerous) that the operators can downlaod the list of reg plates with serials of the tickets printed and if they wish match them when walking round the carpark.
not that i use those carparks any way with the bike.

I haven't used a pay and display yet either, I normally find a spot which doesn't get in anyone's way and hope...

The problem is that when parking up there tends to be no "carpark" for bikes at all and so you're left at the mercy of a traffic warden's discretion or at least that's how it feels etc...

+1 for proper rules and places to park, I wouldn't like to argue my way out of a ticket for parking on a piece of land with no marking on etc...I'll look out for more bicycle parks in future I guess but the situation is a bit carp

[timwilky]

Originally Posted by kaivalagi

I haven't used a pay and display yet either, I normally find a spot which doesn't get in anyone's way and hope...

The problem is that when parking up there tends to be no "carpark" for bikes at all and so you're left at the mercy of a traffic warden's discretion or at least that's how it feels etc...

+1 for proper rules and places to park, I wouldn't like to argue my way out of a ticket for parking on a piece of land with no marking on etc...I'll look out for more bicycle parks in future I guess but the situation is a bit carp

Noting your location as Norwich. It doesn't take long to find this

Personally I think it is very good that Norwich advertises specifically parking for motorcycles and apologies for some places being closed. I think you must have a good local council. Especially when you read

Originally Posted by Nowich council web site

You may also park for free in any of the on-street pay and display bays, but only for the maximum stay allowed as shown on the parking signs.

[dizzyblonde]

I was most disappointed with Scarboro Council, having made us pay for our parking in Whitby yesterday. They have always been a bike friendly place! Have their own large bike specific parking area, and used to be free.
You now have to pay the minimum stay(but can stay all day, even though only an hour is purchased) and display a ticket within good view, or the woman comes to stamp a ticket on you, as Pmapp found, even though the damn sticker was well on his screen! I had to wrap it round my brake cable, having only a set of carbon horns!

We were lucky as she was stood there, but had she not, we'd have all had tickets, like some other unsuspecting folk, thankfully Orose had already warned us.

[punyXpress]

Hey, dizzyblonde - that park @ Whitby was British Rail or whatever, but Scarborough council is ( if anything ) even worse!

[kaivalagi]

Originally Posted by timwilky

Noting your location as Norwich. It doesn't take long to find this

Personally I think it is very good that Norwich advertises specifically parking for motorcycles and apologies for some places being closed. I think you must have a good local council. Especially when you read:

Originally Posted by Norwich council web site

You may also park for free in any of the on-street pay and display bays, but only for the maximum stay allowed as shown on the parking signs.

Thanks Tim, went out of your way there, I am definitely lucky if the council makes this much known to bikers...next time I'll look at my local councils website more often, I might learn something!!!

I have to admit I did know about the motorcycle specific parking in place as they are in prime spots and easy to spot due to all the bikes, unfortunately though the few times I have tried parking in those areas there are no spaces because of the location, and for the other times I am nowhere near them and am left with pay and display as an option only.

I didn't know about the free parking for on-street pay and display though, that is something I really can't complain about and something I will use in the future for sure

Thanks again for pointing this out

[dizzyblonde]

Originally Posted by punyXpress

Hey, dizzyblonde - that park @ Whitby was British Rail or whatever, but Scarborough council is ( if anything ) even worse!

yeah my bad, forgot you said that yesterday..duuuhh. But as you say no matter, both as mean as each other!

Originally Posted by Messie

and our courteous behaviour for that

cough cough, sorry bit of a cough there most bike spaces are withing a few walking paces of the centre of town in colchester, ideal on a bike for quick visit, unlike in the car!!!

riding across town using all the bus lanes (which are quite time saving shortcuts) is worth it just for the sake of it

Don't forget that doctor who was given heaps of parking fines for keeping a scooter on his OWN property in front of the surgery but wasn't fenced off. Apparently that's the same as leaving it on the pavement.

Originally Posted by arenalife

Don't forget that doctor who was given heaps of parking fines for keeping a scooter on his OWN property in front of the surgery but wasn't fenced off. Apparently that's the same as leaving it on the pavement.

I'm sure he would have or could have got off with those.

There's nothing to stop you pushing a scooter over a pavement onto private property. I would think they would be contraventions for riding on the pavement, or parking fines from a warden who was not properly trained. Unless he contracts somebody to enforce parking on his private land, there is nobody that has the power to write a ticket. Even if he did contract somebody to write tickets, they are practically unenforceable.

How many properties have a their own driveways on the other side of a pavement, but not fenced off? Over 99% I'd have thought. You could only get a ticket if you'd put a driveway somewhere that there wasn't a drop kerb, and then it wouldn't be a parking ticket.