I recently recounted my experiences with a scammers’ collective, consisting of private scammers sending out bogus parking tickets to car park users, and higher level scammers posing as a city council denying all responsibility – presumably so long as they’re reaping the benefits of any ground rent from the scammers themselves.
Well, this story reveals that Coventry City Council appears to dwell at roughly the same level in the slime at the bottom of the pond as these scammers I’ve had dealings with. It appears that two drivers (instructors, actually) were ticketed for driving in a poorly marked bus lane. Cutting a long story short, they took it to a traffic penalty tribunal and won – yet the appeal was uncontested by Coventry City Council.
This is the proof that Coventry City Council – and all others involved in these scams – need their wings clipping sooner rather than later. I’ve had my own dealings with Rushcliffe Borough Council when I once accidentally typed in “61” instead of “62” when I bought a parking ticket and they refused to overturn the fine. All of these people are lying, cheating, thieving scam merchants. All they want is your money, and they’ll twist and manipulate the regulations in order to beat it out of you.
Incidentally, Coventry City Council changed the markings after the appeal process started. However, they deny it had anything to do with the markings being wrong!
We are not considering refunds. The lines have been altered because of the pilot with motorbikes using them, not for any legal reason, and the signs were compliant legally.
Well, obviously they weren’t legal, were they? Otherwise the appeal would have failed, or Coventry City Council would have contested it. As it is, they have effectively admitted it was bogus by not arguing their corner. And in just one month from the date when the bus lane opened, the council snatched nearly £100,000 from those it had scammed with its incompetent road marking scheme.
If anyone has ever tried to wade through the slime that conceals the structure behind these schemes they will know that it is often easier just to accept the fine and walk away. Coventry City Council knows that, the scammers at that UKCPS car park in Leeds know it, as does the Leeds City Council, and Rushcliffe Borough Council (aka Nottingham City Council) knows it. And those are just the ones I have first hand knowledge of. It’s deliberate obstruction.