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I recently got a ticket when parking my motorbike on a resident's bay, parked between two cars, what I define as two 'bays'.
I have contested the pcn and Hackney have let me off but they say that for future reference they are unable to say whether their definition of a 'bay' is each car space or the whole length of spaces running along the street. They can only quote from their rule book "...motorcycles can park on resident's bays as long as they are parked at the end of a bay and perpendicular to the pavement..." It's up to me to work out whether 'end of a bay' means between cars or not.
Since I need to park in Hackney every day for work it would be handy if anyone has any info on this.
Interesting and very reasonable cancellation by Hackney.
I think you are confusing 'bay' with 'space'.
A bay maybe to diagram 1028.4 with no individual spaces marked or to 1032 with spaces marked for each vehicle.
In either case the 'end' of a bay is just that - the two extremities - not between vehicles.
Daft rule though - since it means for many people they can't leave their bike where safest - outside their own house.
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To extend the sillyness -
- taking Hackney's statement at face, means only one motorcycle at the end of a bay.
So if another one comes along and wants to park alongside the first one, is he committing a contravention?
Looks like it to me because the second one would not be 'at the end'.
Motorcyclists tend to park where there are already others parked so as to utilise roadspace efficiently for the benefit of other vehicles.
Potential Money Trap for the LA?
To extend the sillyness -
- taking Hackney's statement at face, means only one motorcycle at the end of a bay.
So if another one comes along and wants to park alongside the first one, is he committing a contravention?
Looks like it to me because the second one would not be 'at the end'.
Motorcyclists tend to park where there are already others parked so as to utilise roadspace efficiently for the benefit of other vehicles.
Potential Money Trap for the LA?
And to take that sillyness one step further;
If the second one parks after the first, this would mean he has in fact parked correctly "at the end of the bays" and it is the first one who is now committing the contravention because he is no longer "at the end" and will come back to a ticket even though he thought he had parked correctly when he left it there!
Parking bikes in resident's bay
and Hackney have let me off but they say that for future reference they are unable to say whether their definition of a 'bay' is each car space or the whole length of spaces running along the street. They can only quote from their rule book "...motorcycles can park on resident's bays as long as they are parked at the end of a bay and perpendicular to the pavement..." It's up to me to work out whether 'end of a bay' means between cars or not.
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