http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: parking tickets wardens - Recent Topics en Thu, 21 May 2026 17:10:44 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17963#post-255933 Tue, 25 Jul 2017 23:14:57 +0000 kaputnik 255933@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/traffic-wardens-turn-blind-eye-957784" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/traffic-wardens-turn-blind-eye-957784</a></p> <p><em>TRAFFIC wardens are giving a baker free city centre parking - because he provides them with bacon rolls from his shop.</p> <p>The Edinburgh attendants - known as the Traffic Taliban - enjoy a breakfast of bacon and sausage rolls with tea and coffee at the family-run Preacher's Patisserie every morning.</p> <p>And every day, they turn a blind eye to the boss's illegally parked Renault Clio - even though it is across the road from the fines appeals office.</em></p> <p>1 - I'm hardly surprised, it doesn't take a genius to notice that there are a significant number of city centre businesses proprietors who appear to be able to park right outside their own premises and never face any consequences.</p> <p>2 - Never heard the phrase "traffic Taliban".</p> <p>3 - Some small business owners need to wise up. If they park their own vehicles outside their premises, where are the customers (who apparently all arrive on 4 wheels and I don't mean the bus) meant to park?</p> <p>4 - Getting the bus is easily preferable and more reliable to trying to drive into the city. No sympathy with anyone who thinks its some sort of punishment.</p> <p>5 - Perhaps you are repeatedly getting ticketed because you consistently park out with regulations, not because you are being picked on.</p> <p>6 - Chance would be a fine thing to have such good attention from wardens in any other street.</p> <p>7 - If true, it's a gross misconduct issue and there consequences should be faced. </p>