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Can you park on single yellow lines on a bank holiday?

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blossomhill · 30/08/2004 23:28

I did and have received a £40 fine. I seriously thought that you could park on a single yellow line and was so shocked to find a ticket. I am seriously p**d off as well as I could have done without it TBH as have spent a lot on dd's party, presentsthis week etc.:(

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stupidgirl · 30/08/2004 23:33

Erm, no, I don't think so...

JanH · 30/08/2004 23:37

Just found this here .

I do sympathise, blossomhill - I would have assumed that a single yellow line was OK on a bank holiday too. Will look for what sign says in future!

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blossomhill · 30/08/2004 23:38

I did look and there were no signs. Nightmare

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blossomhill · 30/08/2004 23:39

Thanks JanH

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JanH · 30/08/2004 23:44

Well if there were no signs try this:

Worth a try for £40!

lavender1 · 30/08/2004 23:50

went through a similar thing about 9 months ago...I was doing a market with my gardening job and my colleague had told me to park next to waitrose...so I did, in the disabled spot,,noone said you couldn't park there with a permit, so I did and got a £40 fine.

I did actually write to the council and explain my situation and they said a disabled spot was a disabled spot and nothing else....it's woth a go but personally I think you'll be wasting your time as any line indicates no parking unless unloading or loading ...expensive lesson to learn

JanH · 31/08/2004 00:02

disabled space is not the same as a single yellow line, lavender.

lavender1 · 31/08/2004 00:05

erm when you park there for 4 hours without a permit it is just as unlawful!

lou33 · 31/08/2004 00:07

Disabled spots are only for those who have a blue badge, to enable registered disabled people to get to and from the places they are going to easily. There is NO excuse, imo, for a non disabled person nabbing one, and I think the council was quite right.

Subject close to my heart.

lou33 · 31/08/2004 00:07

Yes it is Lavender. You have to display a blue badge.

lavender1 · 31/08/2004 00:15

and unless you are downright daft you don't park on a single yellow line (same thing) commonsense really!!

JanH · 31/08/2004 00:16

no it's not the same thing, jesus, what planet are you on?

lavender1 · 31/08/2004 00:18

so JanH what does a yellow line mean, if it deosn't mean don't park there!

spacemonkey · 31/08/2004 00:19

JanH already explained that earlier in the thread lavender!

lavender1 · 31/08/2004 00:19

same thing as in it's wrong and you shouldn't do it!!

spacemonkey · 31/08/2004 00:22

Well not really in that the parking restrictions signs will let you know if it's ok to park or not in a single yellow line area. It's double yellows that are a complete no-no.

lavender1 · 31/08/2004 00:22

er no a yellow line obviously doesn't mean you can park there (why are there roads with no lines on and consequently they have lots of cars on) find a space without any lines at all times and then you wont be caught out

spacemonkey · 31/08/2004 00:23

sigh

lavender1 · 31/08/2004 00:27

2 seconds between the last 2 messages spacemonkey why sigh, we can't all know everything...to me I just always go for the no line parking it's simple really.

JanH · 31/08/2004 00:28

bang, bang, bang (head on wall)

lavender1 · 31/08/2004 00:30

sorry that you can't have any disagreements, don't appreciate being taken the mickey out of...silly really over parking commonsense thing...night

quickquestion · 31/08/2004 07:57

I thought you weren't allowed to park on yellow times during certain times, you should be allowed to on bank holidays IMO. I think you learnt the hard way blossomhill, I have been caught out myself with a change in parking restrictions but I am so careful since!

BooMama · 31/08/2004 08:04

We've been caught out on this before - our misconception was to assume that rules on bank holidays were the same as Sundays - they're not...

SoupDragon · 31/08/2004 08:14

The difference between a disabled spot and a single yellow line is that you CAN park on a single yellow line at certain times (usually on Sundays and other days after around 7) but you CAN'T park in a disabled spot EVER unless you're disabled with an appropriate permit.

Common sense really. Even a parking space with no lines isn't safe though - it may be a resident's only parking bay. You should always look for signs and they should always be easy to see (they're not always though).

Beetroot · 31/08/2004 08:26

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