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Call to boot wardens out
Thursday 13th March 2008, 12:52PM GMT.
Controversial parking company ParkRight could be hauled before town leaders in Oswestry after complaints about the heavy-handed actions of traffic wardens.
One town councillor even called for ParkRight to be turfed out, claiming the attendants were a “nuisance”. Councillor Keith Barrow said the company was in danger of undermining town trade.
He said: “We should do what Ellesmere has done and kick them out. They are an absolute nuisance and they are going to undermine trade and business in this town.”
Councillors at last night’s Oswestry Town Council meeting were told of incidents of Britain in Bloom and Christmas light volunteers being given parking tickets while working to help brighten up the town.
Councillor Owen Jones said common sense had gone out of the window over parking in Oswestry.
“When volunteers from Britain in Bloom get parking tickets while working in Oswestry something is very wrong,” he said.
But deputy mayor, Councillor Gareth Jones, said the problem was not that of the ParkRight attendants, but the motorists.
“The attendants are doing their job. If people park where they shouldn’t then they will get a ticket,” he said.
“There has been a lot of criticism of ParkRight but it was not too long ago that we were calling for traffic wardens for Oswestry in this council chamber, saying the town needed to sort out its parking problems.
“Now we are saying that we want to turf them out.”
The council also heard from Councillor Heather Bickerton that problems with parking had been discussed at a meeting of Oswestry’s Chamber of Commerce recently.
Councillors agreed to ask ParkRight to attend a meeting of Oswestry Town Council following the complaints that had been generated in the town.
No-one was available to comment from the Park-Right group this morning.
Problems in Ellesmere over parking enforcement led to ParkRight recently agreeing to suspend its duties in Ellesmere until April.
The decision followed talks between Ellesmere Town Council and Shropshire County Council.
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they are the same in bridgnorth just ticket mad, even people have wrote on a wall in the town about them booking people for parking outside there house
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I was parked at the carpark near Claremont Bank 2 days ago, watching in disbeleif as 3 Wardens checked tickets, Thankfully i’d paid surely the profits made by Parkright are to high? How does it take 3 wardens to cover such a small catchment area, Someone’s making to much profit or simply missmanaging the manpower thay have?
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If people are parking in a dangerous place, then OK, but like Speeding Cameras, they are just another way of raising revenue from the motorist.
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They need bringing down a peg or two, they think they own the town!
Turf them out!!
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I work in Oswestry,live locally, and walk through the town every lunch hour. There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t see a traffic warden upsetting someone. The way I have heard them speak to the general public is absolutley disgusting and on many occasions I have seen them in groups of two or three slating oswestry people and having a good laugh about giving tickets out.
Funnily enough it was only this week I was walking across the main carpark in Oswestry and saw the worst of them all laughing on her mobile to someone about giving out a ticket to a ‘delivery driver who had it coming’ !! This is the same woman who upset an elderley man last month who was waiting for his wife to pick up his medication (not causing anyone any bother). And a delivery driver dropping off 1 box to a shop in December. (He was on the road, not causing obstruction, for about 40 seconds)
If anyone wants me to give evidence against them to get them thrown out of our town, you only have to ask !!
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Illegally parked is illegally parked and if you get a ticket then tough luck. The rest of us whom park legally and don’t get or have never had a ticket have no sympathy for the lazy inconsiderate idiots who think they can park where ever they wish.
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Mmm..the Parkright fanclub are unusually silent. Perhaps the mist is clearing.
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surely if you werent parked where the law determines you cant then you wouldn’t be getting tickets?? Park right do not make the rules local and national government park right are just paid to do the dirty work and we all have to earn a living? my mum and step dad both work for park right and have had no end of insults thrown at them and my mum was even run over by an angry driver you are all quick enough to moan when theres nowhere to park but even quicker to moan when your asked to abide by the law? lay off them and go and get lives!
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bla bla bla! I parked my car illegally and got a ticket, boo hoo!
Isn’t about time people grew and accept the consequences of their acions.
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If people park legally then they dont have a problem. If they park illegally then they get a ticket, and so they should !
I could never get a parking place in Bridgnorth when I had to pop into the town during the day, as selfish people parked in the 40 minute spaces all day. Now I can park without too many problems. This can only be good for local trade.
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someone must be making loads of momey out of people who are just going about their every day business.I hope it is being used for the puplic good,and not squndered by some greedy person.
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Not this company but another one treated my wife and I similar in Brum a few years back !!!
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Once again it all boils down to extra revenue (following Brians comment). Take for example the new charges that are coming in force regarding vehicle TAX, what other ways can local government come up with next? It scares me. As for the saying “TAX DOESNT HAVE TO BE TAXING” who made that up! come on give us working, tax paying people a break.
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Go into Shrewsbury and they are like a plague of locusts. Hasseling you whilst you try and load your car or find change for the meter. It’s borderline facism.
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i cant wait for all you parkright fans to get a ticket. Claire- we have lives, got tell your parents to get real jobs!!
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brunette well said!
They should do something useful, like collect litter.
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‘Brunette’ us parkright fans won’t get tickets as we park in the correct places, and if we happened to park in the wrong place it would be our own fault and we wouldn’t winge about it.
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I agree that parking regulations and restrictions are necessary and those that ignore or flaunt them should quite rightly be penalised but we should also look behind the reason for the implementation of such regulations in the first place. Last Tuesday I witnessed an attendant place a ticket on a car parked in an empty loading bay with enough room for several cars and lorries. The town was very quiet. I think that common sense should have prevailed here and it seems to be lacking in some depth and perhaps should be addressed in the training programme. I do not know the owner of the car but I felt that the law was never meant to be so rigorously upheld in a case such as this. I have even seen the wardens waiting by cars in for tickets to expire and a trio of wardens issuing a ticket to a car on a Sunday in a quiet street that was causing no obstruction to any wide emergency vehicle. May I ask what qualifications are required before they are accepted for basic training?
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