The Kintyre Forum

Thursday i had to take an old lady who has very little mobility uses a zimmer and has no means of transport, she had an appointment to get her eyes tested at Opticians in Longrow, I managed to get parked outside opticians and after struggling to get her out of car took her into shop, while i was doing this traffic warden took note of my reg. no. i asked her if it was an hour i could park of which i got no reply, any way while old lady was getting her eyes tested after maybe 40 mins.i went round block and moved car to different space thinking this would be okay as i was not in same space. I was in the middle of helping old lady to pick glasses when traffice warden appeared i ran out and expained that i had been away and moved car and that had an old lady with simmer to get back into car, not her problem she said ! seemingly even although i moved car i was still parked in the same street for more that an hour ! she was ready to book me so i jumped into car and only space i could find near was half way down Mccallum Street ! ran back to opticians to find old lady thinking i had abandaned her, explained why i had to run off as it would have cost me a fine, old lady can hardly walk 5 paces so had to rum back to McCallum St. for car, back to opticians while lady in another shop watched incase traffic warden appeared again, luckily enough managed to literally bundle lady into car and take off in case of getting fine. Really angry , surely a wee bit of come and go.

Apply for a "blue badge" through SWD, you should have no problems then.

Am i understanding the situation of parking in the same road / street for over an hour is as follows... even if you move your car to another space within the street, this still counts within the 1st hour, meaning you can be booked? How would this be controlled in a city? If someone were to park in Gt. Western Road, and move their car to another space which could be half a mile away, this would still be included within the hour allocated within that same street?? Does anyone know the exact rules of parking within a timed zone? Most importantly, I find it terrible that to have asked the traffic warden for advice and to be ignored by a serving member of the government quite shocking. Perhaps the moral of the story would be to use up precious resources and get an ambulance transport or equivilant to take this old lady to the opticions, meaning she would be going with "strangers" and not the security of someone she knows.

have you ever seen the forms you have to fill in for one of them ? (Blue badge) nearly need a lawyer and you have to go your doctor to sign, no wonder some old people dont have such things.

SYDNEY.B wrote:have you ever seen the forms you have to fill in for one of them ? (Blue badge) nearly need a lawyer and you have to go your doctor to sign, no wonder some old people dont have such things.

Sorry pal, it's the only way round it that I can think of, and I have filled one of these forms in, I'm a support
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I think the blue badge would save a lot of time and hassle in the long run. But that isnt really what is in question here, its the response of the traffic warden, or should i say the lack of response from the traffic warden when asked for advice.

Surely to goodness there is no need for ANY parking restrictions anywhere on the Longrow....to make it more difficult for people to use shops and businesses there is just ridiculous.

4th Gen. A sort of similar incident several years ago in the Longrow (near the bike shop). This time however yellow chalk was used by a Traffic Warden to mark my tyre and the adjacent kerb. An act of vandalism by a Traffic warden-who knows. This was in a sense marking my car to check my parking times etc.

I wrote to The Courier re this and phoned the police station seeking advice re this action. I believe the yellow chalk marking does not happen now. The police advice was poor and they seemed confused about the whole thing.

Adding to you other comment. Why indeed have parking restrictions, is Campbeltown that busy-aye right!! and in effect chase people away who are generally in town to spend money.

If you were a holidaymaker, this is the kind of thing that would make you think twice about coming back.

To my mind, compared with other places, Campbeltown does not have any major problems with parking and this kind of behaviour by the authorities is totally unnecessary, unless it is just a policy of raising revenue through the fines.

[quote="SYDNEY.B"]have you ever seen the forms you have to fill in for one of them ? (Blue badge) nearly need a [b]lawyer [/b]and you have to go your doctor to sign, no wonder some old people dont have such things.[/quote]


I don`t know if the situation`s different in Scotland, but my daughter has a blue badge and didn`t have to have it signed by her doctor. The only bind wss getting the photo the right size!

The traffic warden should be ticketing the people who are continually parking on the single yellow line in longrow, this has become more of a problem since the new charity shop opened.

Longrow is more than wide enough not to have any parking restrictions.

dalintober lad wrote:Longrow is more than wide enough not to have any parking restrictions.

Clearly not a driver then

4th gen Suthen' wrote:Surely to goodness there is no need for ANY parking restrictions anywhere on the Longrow....to make it more difficult for people to use shops and businesses there is just ridiculous.

dalintober lad wrote:Longrow is more than wide enough not to have any parking restrictions.

Would go along with these comments.

You cannot just move the car into another space in the same street and expect to sit there another hour, this applies in many controlled parking areas / Streets etc, Normally it does say that on the parking restriction sign.... The car has to be parked else where for thr next hout before you return, it has been this way in many towns inc Glasgow for a long time....

I'm not sure if these signs are up in Campbeltown or now.... If your ever unsure about parking restriction as the local Traffic Warden or and local Policeman.... Most areas have the same rules until you go 'Down South' then it goes crazy....

Blue badge holder or not....

But yes... The parking is still a little crazy in the town centre, why I have no idea....

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