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24/07/2007
Disabled space painted around parked car
A Belfast charity worker who received a £30 fine for parking illegally said he thought he was the victim of a television prank.
John Junk who works for the charity Families Need Fathers was visiting a charity member when he received the fine for wrongly parking in a disabled parking space, however, Mr Junk said the space on Castlereagh Street in east Belfast was not marked out as a disabled parking space when he left his vehicle.
Mr Junk was informed by a local shopkeeper that when he was in the house, workmen had begun to paint the disabled parking space onto the road around his car but they could not complete the marking of the space due to Mr Junk’s car being too long.
When the workmen had moved on from Mr Junk’s car, traffic wardens arrived to issue an illegal parking fine.
Mr Junk said: “The lady who owns the confectionery shop had remonstrated with the people who had painted it and also with the parking enforcement people who had come to put the ticket there, but, she said, neither would listen to her. You can see clearly from the pictures that I took that the bay is incomplete.”
A spokeswoman for the Department for Regional Development has said today that it was not normal practice for the Roads Service to paint parking restrictions around parked vehicles.
The spokeswoman said: “Roads Service has acknowledged this error and intends to issue an apology to the owner of the vehicle for any inconvenience caused.”
(SB)
John Junk who works for the charity Families Need Fathers was visiting a charity member when he received the fine for wrongly parking in a disabled parking space, however, Mr Junk said the space on Castlereagh Street in east Belfast was not marked out as a disabled parking space when he left his vehicle.
Mr Junk was informed by a local shopkeeper that when he was in the house, workmen had begun to paint the disabled parking space onto the road around his car but they could not complete the marking of the space due to Mr Junk’s car being too long.
When the workmen had moved on from Mr Junk’s car, traffic wardens arrived to issue an illegal parking fine.
Mr Junk said: “The lady who owns the confectionery shop had remonstrated with the people who had painted it and also with the parking enforcement people who had come to put the ticket there, but, she said, neither would listen to her. You can see clearly from the pictures that I took that the bay is incomplete.”
A spokeswoman for the Department for Regional Development has said today that it was not normal practice for the Roads Service to paint parking restrictions around parked vehicles.
The spokeswoman said: “Roads Service has acknowledged this error and intends to issue an apology to the owner of the vehicle for any inconvenience caused.”
(SB)
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