traffic wardens

[daisy]

Today i was behind a car which stopped in the middle of maxted road. A traffic warden jumped out of the passengers door ran across the road to a parked car and wacked on a pre written ticket. He then jumped back into his car and they sped off - It turned out that there were three parking attendants in the vehicle. It was the parking equivalent of a hit and run! Are traffic wardens allowed to drive around East Dulwich in private cars and mopeds? Does the council know this is how their "outsourced traffic management company" operates? Has anyone else seen or experienced this? I hope it's illegal as i got the car's number plate.

[SeanMacGabhann]

So - did the car in question warrant a ticket or not? Or is the assumption that it was innocent because the wardens were a bit aggressive?

(For a minute I thought they forced you to stop in the road and gave YOU a ticket - I did a double-take at that)

[Keef]

That's what I thought you were going to say! >:D

[daisy]

i'm not sure if the car warranted a ticket or not - what suprised me was the fact that it was the traffic wardens that were in a car stopping in the middle of the road and holding up traffic in order to give out a ticket!! That seems both unfair and ironic. Aren't they supposed to wait for 5 minutes?

[jim_the_chin]

they could have seen the car on one of their frequent circuits and come back round ready to go. seems a bit cowardly though, not letting the car owner have the chance to run out and shout at them.

[Ant]

Why run out and shout when you can run out and drive away? If you get away in time they can't give you the ticket, as proven in a recent court case.

[dulwichmum]

I read that too, it's true Mr Ant...

[tiddles]

aha, a few saturday's ago (around 4.30pm) I saw a mini van containing traffic wardens driving up crawley grove, park on a junction (double yellow) with archdale road to issue a ticket to a van which did not seem to warrant a ticket. After ticket was placed on windscreen, the warden got back in and the driver drove off whilst on his mobile. The van was white and unmarked. I tried to remember the number plate but of course forgot it. I have no doubt that had I reported it, there would be no record of this vehicle.

[clare]

Traffic wardens are often patrolling round Northcross/Fellbrigg Roads in silver peugeots. Seen them loads of times. Drive round, jump out and ticket.

[Nero]

STOP PRESS Just seen a couple of wardens driving up G'rich Rd near the school, eyes a-peeled for parking violators. This part of E Dulwich is sleepy and law-abiding, I'll have them know! Harumph! Nero

[Huguenot]

The reason why they travel in threes is because gormless arseholes assault them and vandalise their cars. I've seen it done, and I'm staggered that locals who have more in common with apes can descend to dehumanising people to that extent.

It's not a question of cowardice, when there is a daily threat of being hit in the face for ticketing people that have broken a law that's there to protect and help all of us.

I must say that conversations like the one on this thread give a veneer of respectability to this kind of violence, in much the same way that middle class dinner party racism sustains the National Front.

From a personal perspective I can't believe the righteousness of law breaking car drivers, particularly when their ownership of car in the first place is destroying our children's future. ;-)

[Amelie]

Can I suggest that each of you who have seen these wardens do something that they should not, i.e. driving whilst using a mobile phone, that you email the Director of Environmental Services at Southwark?

[specialk]

There is a traffic warden on Goodrich every morning now at around 8am. He particularly feeds off people parked across the dropped kerbs for the disabled/pushchairs. Having been on the receiving end of one of them (ok i should not have parked there but sometimes I can't bear walking more than 10 metres with my Sainsbury bags) I conversed with him one morning stating that he must be making a killing off this particular spot, having bagged one car who had parked there for a week and got a lovely surprise I am sure when he returned to find 7 tickets-heh. His response? 'I'm not making the money, it's the council'. Erm, quite. They started doing the checks in January apparently.