On 21/01/2024 16:09, Fredxx wrote:
On 20/01/2024 16:01, RL wrote:
The following article was in yesterdays Daily Mail -
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12983165/Parkinsons-disease-parking-fine-tremors-download-app-pay-ticket.html
It refers to a 73 yr old Parkinsons sufferer who had pulled in to
park at a car park where it is pay by app.
Because of his tremors he was unable to download and pay for his
ticket within the FIVE mins allowed. He did download the app and pay
the parking but it took him 18 mins.
He was then fined £100
There must be numerous instances where it takes a disabled drive more
than 5 minutes to get a ticket. Without the possibility of a queue at
the machine, there must be some who take ages to get out of their car
into a wheelchair.
I have known it take more than 5 minutes to *find* one of the three
empty spaces in a large carpark but with a 15 minute grace window.
Also due the the small number of working physical machines requiring
stick insect fingers to enter your registration and huge queues taking
more than 30 minutes to buy a ticket. I photographed the queue with a
watch in the foreground just in case they tried it on. Increasingly with
pay by app there is much less focus on mending broken ticket machines.
I wondered if the set up at the location (and potentially many
others) may be in breach of some sort of legislation in that they are
not easily usable by a disabled person.
I would expect so, and if the driver took issue he'd win in court,
assuming it came to that.
I'd say five minutes should fall foul of the unfair contract terms act.
It is almost impossible to comply with if you don't already have the
right app. Some carparks also have misleading signs in remote parts of
the carpark to rip off non-locals (eg Oxford park and ride).
If you aren't careful there you will buy just the remote out of town
parking space and then have to pay extra for the bus tickets into town!
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Martin Brown
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