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Brisbane City Council Gone Too Far?
Brisbane city council have gone to far with respect to friggin parking fines, I live in a cul-de-sac (however you spell it) which is 3 dead ends for those that don't know. Now we have absolutely frig all traffic, I mean you'll be lucky to see 1 car every hour some days.
Now my next door neighbour often comes home for approx 10 to 15 minutes during lunch and parks the car on her footpath because it's a lot easier then parking it in the driveway (which is quite steep) now we have no walkways or anything like that on our foot paths, it's just grass, now where the car was situated it was in no way of the postman or anyone doing leaflet drops or anything like that.
Anyway today she comes out to her car after doing the usual to find a council inspector giving her a frggin $50 fine for parking there
Now in my opinion this is nothing but blatant revenue raising, it's not like she was parked on a foot path in the middle of Brisbane city
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VTV85L
i know this guy whos a parking inspector
he did want to be a cop but was slightly colour blind so he got reject and they gave him a parking inspector job
this guy walks around the council booking the people he works for now thats taking it to far
not even.. thats bias if he doesnt
I agree. It's just like those cops who charged their colleauges with drink driving offences, would be wrong if they didn't. I'd be pissed off, yes, if i got a ticket out the front of my place, but hey, they gotta do their job...I'm lucky i havent got a ticket, as mine is always parked on my front lawn, right next to the gutter...Originally Posted by fitzy2005
VTV85L
its a parking ticket not a bloody drunk driver a wheel on the other side of the white line and there work collegues
I hear ya, but it's their job mate! *shrug* why would it be fair to let some people go, and not others? I used the cop incident as an example of not letting colleagues off, just because you work with them.
she parked illegally & got caught
bad luck for her
America just kicked in yo
I park on my nature strip and on my parents nature strip when I go there and have never gotten a ticket for it. There are many who park in the same way I do and don't get tickets. I mow my nature strip (with my own mower and fuel and effort) I consider it my property (even tho its not really) and when they come and maintain my nature strip then they can tell me not to park there.
If the council is too tight to build footpaths they shouldn't give out fines because she wasn't blocking a footpath.
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My thoughts exactly.
455rwhp LS3
Parking restrictions in a residential area? I can understand not blocking a fire hydrant but to restrict a Cul-de-sac to me is blatant revenue raising.
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My thoughts exactly. Instead of fining people for parking there, why not fine people who let a jungle grow there...I'd profer to see a car parked on it than that.
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yeah thats blatent revenue raising. Thats absolutely rubbish fair to say, if its parked illegally well then they really have nothing to say, but yes what a crock.
Worst that that. My brother got a fine for having a trailer across the footpath even though the trailer was on the car which where both ON the driveway. This was in a cul-de-sac as well.
Apparently in Brisbane City you can get a ticket on your own driveway if your car impedes the footpath.
Spoon?
My mate gets thema ll the time parking in a driveway near uni. Theres a gap big enough for the posty to ride through and there is no actual foot path there. But hey still give him tickets for it. The fact its an addandoned house and he jsut parks in their drive way to save on parking probably doesn't help.
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I got fined parking on my nature strip, as a protest, i dug up the nice turf i had laid, planted 150 tree's.
The tree's are now about 15 metres tall, they dont look to safe either rofl.
yeah totally shit did you go and refuse to pay! alot of the time if you have a genuine reason or are a good fakeryou can get yourself off!(off the hook that is you bunch of sicko's)
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There are reasons why they do fine you for this is, in some situations it is dangerous. For eg. I walk to and from my daughters school twice everyday, pushing a pram, now its not a busy road or anything but between 8.45- 9.15 and 2.45-3.15 its a nightmare. You get all the mums flying down the road in their big 4wds showing blatent disrgard for the 40k speed limit. Most of them also cut the corner going over double lines. Now this is bad enough, but when I am walking down the nature strip (theres also no footpath), and some inconsiderate prick decided to park his truck on the nature strip leaving no room for pedestrians to walk I am forced to walk on the road putting my children and myself at risk. Thankfully I am an adult and I can do this safely as possible, but what about those kids who walk home by themself who have to walk on the road all because some asshole is to lazy to park properly.
This problem isn't just confined to school areas in school hours, plenty of people like to go out for a stroll at night or like to walk the dog. Granted it was in a cul de sac and there probably was minimal danger to pedestrians but its a rule and they are obliged to book anyone who disobeys it, not just pick and choose whom they please.
Here, here!!
America just kicked in yo
Yeah but what kind of nature strip was it julie? was it only just bigger than the width of the car? or was it the size of a normal footpath and nature strip? If the strip was only the size of the car then NO they shouldn't park there and block the only walkway. The council when they zoned the area residential, they should have left enough bloody room for a footpath and a nature strip.
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455rwhp LS3
There was a big issue up here about one of the new sub-divisions having no footpaths. All of the nature strips joined onto the main gardens of the houses & everyone had to walk on the roads. Needless to say that it was lucky no children were hurt in this area. However if someone was walking on the nature strip & got injured the home owner was responsible. Dont figure.
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sounds like the brisbane city council is following in the foot steps of the gold coast city council. i got done for parking down at the gold coast, well, wasnt realy parked, car was broken down. but i buggered up, and didnt have the bonnet up or anything. as a result i got a $50 parking fine, i payed it though, didnt want the bullshit that comes with the council.
they are going mad, up here in the gold coast shire also you arnt alowed to park a truck outside yoru house anymore, no more parking on the nature stip medium strip on the foot path, basicaly it's the crowns land, so you dont park on crown land.
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garth
we have street parking spots.. enough spots for about 4 - 6 cars. Glad we have a 3 car garage and a big enough driveway to fit a decent amount of cars on.
I use to always park on the curb and heaps of people do it in my street.
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Well i dont see the rpoblem with parking on the nature strip if the person left enough room for the pedestrians to walk along i can see a prob if she left no room at all and in the caboolture shire i have never heard of any one getting a fine for parking on the foot path as our council are too lazy and cbf to put a foot path on the nature median strips it pisses me off
RYAN
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