Police and traffic wardens in car park sales clampdown
Friday 25th March 2011, 1:00PM GMT.
Traffic wardens Bernie Falla and Alison Le Sauvage check cars parked in the South Side ‘sales lot’. (Picture by Steve Sarre, 1114004)
TRAFFIC wardens were involved in a crackdown yesterday on commercial operations using public land to sell vehicles.
Some islanders and businesses have complained that the vehicles clog up public car parks in places such as South Side and Vazon.
And there have also been allegations that dealers are using the spaces to display their cars.
‘It’s been highlighted by members of the public that they are concerned about this, which is why we felt the need to carry out these checks,’ said Traffic Sergeant John Tostevin.
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Why do the press over dramatise everything! The traffic wardens are simply checking for correct clock setting etc. Something they do EVERY day.
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What a farst they must be joking aint they.
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What’s the betting that the owner of that blue Almeira found out by way of the Press that they got a ticket?
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How about “Traffic Wardens did their job” as an alternative headline?
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Does anyone ever park that far on Southside? I wouldn’t, it’s too far to walk to the bridge.
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Skyler
It’s a 23 hour park in order to help residents,workers,boat owners and people attending the Church for weddings and funerals
Fifteen to twenty for sale cars taking up these spaces can make parking very difficult
Reducing it to 10 hour parking would probably go some way to easing the problem
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An easy option would be for the CCTV cam operator to break the stretch up into a few zones. Take a still picture of what is parked there & compare movements every twenty four hours.
This would take a minute or two & offenders would quickly get the message once tickets have been dealt out.
Passing coppers could use the stretch to up their weekly ticket quota.
It’s a problem that that appears to be expanding.
Surely residents living in the area must feel a little aggrieved by it?
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