| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Parking ticket outside Ealing Broadway - Advice needed | |
| Posted by: | Richard Jennings | |
| Date/Time: | 17/09/09 12:08:00 |
| Chris, in answer to your queries about the pick-up/set-down exemption, this is contained in Direction 22 of the Traffic Signs General Directions 2002, and was also in the previous (1994) version. Basically, yellow lines do not affect loading/unloading or picking up and setting down of passengers. Any separate loading restrictions (kerb marks) only apply to loading/unloading (of goods). No time limit is stated. In one case an adjudicator allowed an appeal from a driver who unloaded a wheelchair, assisted her passenger into it and wheeled him into a building, and returned to move her car. The council (Southwark) claimed that this was unloading, but the adjudicator said it was clearly setting down and therefore allowed even though unloading was prohibited there. "the nearside carriageway can be continuously occupied by an endless procession of vehicles stopping to drop off or pick up passengers" In theory, yes, but in practice it's unlikely. If there was a problem with a particular stretch of road, a no-stopping restriction could be imposed. |