ACT Parking regulations and inspectors

then how did the wheels move

“You turned them. You’ve got 28 days to pay this.”

Amazing! Post #13 advises what the (minimum) legal requirement is “moves the vehicle off the length of road, or out of the area, to which the permissive parking sign applies”.

Poster #14 then suggests moving a few metres up the same road before backing back into the same spot (on the same road). Clearly you wouldn’t have moved the vehicle off the length of road, let alone out of the area as the legislation requires, right?

Poster #15 returns to vehicle, gets into car to move steering wheel only (doesn’t leave spot) and then lies to parking authority when they get booked?

And these people wonder why they get parking tickets?

Ok, when you first park, have your front wheels turned sharply into the gutter, then come back just before the time limit expires and turn your front wheels sharply outwards towards the road. When you get a ticket, dispute it saying that you left the spot for a few minutes and when you came back it was empty and demand that they produce the photo’s. When you see them you can point out that if the car was parked too long in the one spot then how did the wheels move???

Ka-ching!

So if the same sign applies to two spaces, moving from one space to the next will not suffice to break the continuity.

but presumably driving onto the roadway, then backing back into the space would…

The TAMS website (http://www.rego.act.gov.au/parking/parkingrules.htm) indicates that the ACT uses the Australian Road Rules (available from http://www.ntc.gov.au/filemedia/Reports/ARR_February_2009_final.pdf).

Rule 205 of the Rules indicates that:

(1) A driver must not park continuously on a length of road, or in an area, to which a permissive parking sign applies for longer than the period indicated by information on or with the sign or, if rule 206 applies to the driver, the period allowed under that rule.

(1A) ….

(2) For subrule (1), a driver parks continuously on a length of road, or in an area, to which a permissive parking sign applies, from the time when the driver parks on the length of road, or in the area, until the driver, or another driver, moves the vehicle off the length of road, or out of the area, to which the permissive parking sign applies.

So if the same sign applies to two spaces, moving from one space to the next will not suffice to break the continuity.

Unfortunately, in cases like Amanda Hugankis’, it appears that the onus is on the operator of the vehicle to prove that they left the area before re-parking if the infringement notice is to be withdrawn.

DJ said :

Isn’t it easier to do the right thing than look for a sneaky or cunning way to beat the system? It’s only parking….

With you DJ

What do they do with the photos after wards? Are there any privacy issues one asks tongue in cheek?

@ #6 astrojax makes a good point.

Isn’t it easier to do the right thing than look for a sneaky or cunning way to beat the system? It’s only parking….

Just drive past a point-to-point speed camera before re-parking.

Speaking from another city, I’m pretty sure when they are taking photos, they are collecting evidence of offenders, not just everyone who parks.