Kensington & Chelsea wardens' cameras are three minutes fast! |
Kensington & Chelsea wardens' cameras are three minutes fast! |
Sat, 18 Aug 2018 - 12:18
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Hello good people - my first post. Yesterday I found a ticket on my windscreen in a loading bay starting at 08.00. The ticket showed 08.01 - 08.01. I picked it up at 07.59 according to my iPhone which displays accurate time.
I logged on to Kensington & Chelsea's site where I saw photos of my car with a ticket on it at 08.02. This is clearly impossible. Today I approached a Kensington & Chelsea warden in the street. He told me that the wardens' personal ticket issuing machines are pre-set by Kensington council and can only be altered with a passcode. The camera is part of that same device. I showed the warden my iPhone time, which was just under three minutes under the ticket issuing/camera device. I asked the warden politely if I could see the time on his phone. He pulled out a Sony smart phone - his personal phone. The time matched my iPhone and was also just under three minutes under the official Kensington council's device's time. The implications are huge. If I was stung at an alleged one minute into the loading bay start time, then presumably hundreds of others have also been unjustly ticketed. I find it unbelievable that no one in Kensington & Chelsea knows this. I objected yesterday on Kensington's online system and I will add my findings of the warden today to that. No doubt Kensington will simply deny it and claim that their ticketing machines are 100% accurate and checked regularly blah blah. What to do guys and girls? I can't believe that there appears to be widespread fraud perpetrated by London's wealthiest boroughs |
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Fri, 24 Aug 2018 - 13:02
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Member Group: Members Posts: 23,582 Joined: 12 Feb 2013 From: London Member No.: 59,924 |
I expect there have been cases of CEO's devices being wrong. We tend to focus on margin of error with CCTV as many parking tickets have other timing issues.
As for the 10 min grace period, every council says the designated parking place rule does not apply on yellow lines and as far as I'm aware no adjudicator has ruled against this.* Not saying they are right, just what is in practice. * Any cases? A court judgement would be needed I guess - has there been one? |
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