Parking ticket query

hometruths

Looking for some advice re justification of a parking ticket, issued by AGS. Appreciate any advice!

I've got two issues:

i) Received two parking penalty notices in the post - one for parking within 5 metres of a junction at 9.28am and one for same offence in same place at 10.10am. There was only one notification on windscreen when I came back.

ii) Whilst there is no doubt that car was parked within 5 metres of a junction, it was a parked in a spot that has been an accepted parking space for as long as I can remember - 30 years! Rural village outside an old local HSE health centre.

The markings delineating the lanes of road - broken yellow lines veer away from the pavement to form the junction in question and create the parking space. ie the only reason for the artificial bend in the marked lane is to create the parking space and most reasonable people would look at it and assume that it was a legit parking spot.

What I am wondering is how do I query the double ticket - ie presumably if guilty of an offence it is only one offence? And any idea how I query whether or not I was entitled to park there?

Any thoughts much appreciated thanks!

Victor

schmittel wrote: »

ii) Whilst there is no doubt that car was parked within 5 metres of a junction, it was a parked in a spot that has been an accepted parking space for as long as I can remember - 30 years! Rural village outside an old local HSE health centre.

Just because it's common, doesn't make it legal.

schmittel wrote: »

The markings delineating the lanes of road - broken yellow lines veer away from the pavement to form the junction in question and create the parking space. ie the only reason for the artificial bend in the marked lane is to create the parking space and most reasonable people would look at it and assume that it was a legit parking spot.

The only time you can park near a junction is when there are designated parking spots, not a hard shoulder.

schmittel wrote: »

What I am wondering is how do I query the double ticket - ie presumably if guilty of an offence it is only one offence?

Two tickets are legitimate, if harsh. Proves you weren't there for "just a minute".

ED E

The 5m of a junction and 5/15m of a traffic/ped light apply at all times. Council may or may not mark them but you should know from learning the ROTR to obtain a licence.

broken yellow lines veer away from the pavement to form the junction in question and create the parking space. ie the only reason for the artificial bend in the marked lane is to create the parking space and most reasonable people would look at it and assume that it was a legit parking spot.

A parking spot is marked by a white box and the relevant RUS sign, not a broken yellow. What you're describing is a hard shoulder?


One is definitely valid, whether the double is I'm unsure. They can only do you once for an offence on one "occasion" or something to that effect. Sounds as if a beat Garda was doing rounds and passed you twice each time issuing an FCPN.

biko

If you approach the AGS and enquire they may quash one ticket.
The council have done so for me before when I received two tickets within 24 hours.

hometruths

Thanks all, I guess established practice is no defence for ignorance of the law. I will try and query the double ticket.

Isambard

I'd pay one and append the other notice with a request to quash the second ticket. Be nice though.

I'd assume someone must have complained for a Gard to issue even one ticket, let alone hang about to issue a second.