In Britain it is safe to say that almost all of us hate traffic wardens simply because they seem to enjoy seeing other people suffer. However many councils here in the UK have got another method of catching you parking illegally that is unfair and has several flaws.
Ghost Ticketing is quite a new idea but it is when the local council use their CCTV cameras and catch someone that is parked illegally and send the ticket off that way. One reason that a council is looking to do this is because they are going be making more money from it as a traffic warden can only be at one location at a time, a camera is there 24/7.
Why is this a bad thing?
There seem to be several flaws to the method and the main one is, what if you are disabled? So the councils that are already participating in these schemes have already stated it is going to be very tough to check each car for a blue badge, well that’s not a waste of time and money then. This is not fair at all for the person that is disabled, they then have to go out of their way to cancel the fine.
Aren’t These Meant For Crime Prevention?
Surely with all of these cameras looking out for parked cars they are going to be missing crimes that occur. It would be very interesting to see if the crime rates rise because of this.
Fair
It is hard for people to argue against this form of ticket because they will not even know about it until it comes through the letterbox. Surely this means that people are likely to actually forget the date and time, not fair if they actually had an excuse.
All of this is not going to help you when looking for bad credit car loans as well as cheap lease cars. Parking tickets do also not help when looking for specific deals like gap insurance.
