The rules around double yellow lines are bollox nowadays anyway. Double yellows are generally there because it is deemed unsafe to park. However, you are allowed to park on double yellows for up to one hour of you have a disability badge. Since when as a disability car be less dangerous to park than a regular car?
One thing Steve Jobs used to do is buy a new car every six months. Why? In California they have a ludicrously long period of time where it is legal to drive a new car with only a temporary new car plate... So he would park illegally everywhere in handicapped spots,.etc and if it wasn't a place that would place a boot on a car he would get away with it. No license plate means no enforceable tickets. Steve Jobs was famously an arse hole though.
We've got both restricted parking time (In length) and parking meters. But then, we also have a record number of supermarkets for geographic area too
In reality there probably are parking restrictions in the supermarket car parks I use, I just haven't seen them. I've never seen a supermarket with a car park barrier, or whatever, on entry issuing tickets [like arena parking] ,or attendants checking around the cars. Only once, as I mentioned, was an employee in a high-vis jacket checking people had that particular stores bags.
One Sainsburys around here had barriers for a while, started with having to take like this plastic coin/chip thing from a machine on entering and putting it in the slot when leaving, they were using an electronic camera as well to read the number plate and then the barrier went up. Then they changed it to just the camera, then eventually they took the barriers away
They weren’t on call so well within their rights to give them a ticket. Say that was a lorry that couldn’t fit in the parking bay or disabled bay, would they have let the lorry driver off, no chance.
Every big supermarket I’ve been to has parking restrictions. Can only park for 3 hours at most places. It’s to stop people parking their free and pissing off into town all day
They don’t have barriers like you would at a normal car park. Most these days have cameras and take pic of registration number when you drive in and then again when drive out so as long as in / out in the time frame then all fine. You don’t have to get a ticket or validate it etc,
Supermarkets I know all have a limited parking time. As mentioned above, it's to prevent people using them as a free parking spot while they go off gallivanting. Imo, emergency services should follow the same rules as anyone else unless they are on an emergency call. As ever, individual circumstances should be taken into account - if it's a small car park and they just can't fit in then that's different to them just having to park a distance away and walk a bit further. Double yellow lines should only exist in places that are deemed dangerous to other people.
Yeah an asda our way does it because they are just off from a hospital and 2 civil service blocks.... Don't get me started on parking fees at hospitals .....
We shop at Tesco in Warrington fairly regularly and there's no barriers, tickets or wardens there and never have been, similarly at Asda Westbrook. As I said there may be signs saying parking for 2 hours only [or whatever] but I've never seen them, I've also never been at any of them for 2 hours.
Personally don't understand why she didn't use the Disabled bay as round here every other ****er does Double yellow lines are regularly there to stop congestion in town centres not because it is deemed unsafe. The reason for the exemption is for some people there may be no other way of accessing certain places . I for example have used it to park directly outside the opticians helped the wife in then gone and moved car to a car park then returned when her appointment is over . Having said that i accept that the facility is clearly abused by quite a few.
