Parking help needed

[Mold]

Hello, does anyone know what I do if my parking ticket is stolen? I assume I stick the paid for parking ticket on my windscreen, but what the ticket is stolen? If I'm paying for the ticket by credit or debit card would that prove I've paid for a ticket and it was stolen if I come back to my bike and find it has a parking fine? Thanks for your help.

[Yorky]

How about take a photo using your phone. Make sure to get the date and time in, and even better if it's the kind of ticket that has your reg. on. That along with proof of purchase should suffice.

[bud]

Perhaps write bike and the reg at the bottom of the ticket too. Might make it less likely to be stolen.

[Fiddlesticks]

Speaking of which, got a parking ticket on the bike on Sunday... For parking outside the marked bays as directed by the Council's own website.

Appeal pending.

[AstronautNinja]

Have you checked T&C that bikes have to pay? Many are exempt 

[Mississippi Bullfrog]

I always take a photo of any ticket affixed to the bike. 

 

It's annoying how many places that used to have free parking for bikes are now charging or withdrawing bike parking g altogether.  

[Shepherd]

Yep, it seems more are changing to payment by app, which now include bikes when it used to be free to park.

I hate that there are so many apps I have to have just in one small town.

[JRH]

Councils going the app route means no more filling ticket machines with paper tickets(saves cost of paying someone) just input your reg details,  and oh look we can now charge motorcycles cause their tickets can’t be nicked

Edited October 16, 2024 by JRH

[Old-codger]

I refuse to use car parks that require an app I go and spend my money somewhere else, plus there is now the scam where fake QR codes are being put on payment machines so you download god knows what.

[S-Westerly]

6 hours ago, Old-codger said:

I refuse to use car parks that require an app I go and spend my money somewhere else, plus there is now the scam where fake QR codes are being put on payment machines so you download god knows what.

Good luck trying to park in my neck of the woods. All the official car parks are either pay by app or card. Don't mind the latter and never use QR codes. Gloucestershire still has free bike parking wherever the car park is council run. Ones run by private companies on behalf of the council are mostly payable therefore avoided by bikers.