Here come more parking posters!

Jul 1 2008 by Val Javin, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

THE question of potentially thousands of illegal parking tickets dished out in Kirklees got our posters on www.examiner.co.uk hot under the keyboard.

We reported how a campaign group had used Freedom of Information powers to find out from the council which of their parking areas didn’t meet with the laws on signs and other details.

We gave you a list in the Examiner and people made their own mind up; and the council weren’t top of their Christmas card list!

One poster wrote: “How else could these clowns pay for putting lumps of tarmac in potholes? Each ticket covers one lump. I was disgusted to read about the tickets issued to the cars around Greenhead on the day of the run (Race for Life).

“Hurrah in the name of Kirklees, but the people of Huddersfield are shamed by the wardens that placed those pieces of paper.”

Poster despondent added: “Suppose in theory all the traffic wardens will be laid off until Kirklees finds them a legitimate no parking area to patrol!”

The aptly named poster parking gave their view: “From what have seen all over Kirklees there are more non-compliant parking signs than legal signs and lines.

“The councillor responsible for highways ought to have a walk round his ward and see all the illegal signs and lines on which tickets are being issued, might change his mind a bit.”

The question of disabled parking permits also raised a few hackles.

One poster has had enough of people who they believe shouldn’t have a blue badge.

They said: “A group of half a dozen ‘oldies’, including myself, stood and watched a perfectly agile young lady carry a large box and place it in the boot of her car, parked in the disabled bays by Wilkinsons, having completed this task, she relocked the car & vanished to do more shopping, there was a disabled card on the dashboard for all to see, but what a pity there was no picture to show to whom that card was issued.

“A week earlier, in the same bays, a man in his forties, sticker displayed, did a good impression of a marathon walker; boy he was quick.

“Isn’t it time disabled permits bore the photograph of the holder?”