http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Traffic Wardens Turn Blind Eye In Return For Free Rolls en Thu, 21 May 2026 16:24:19 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17963#post-255973 Wed, 26 Jul 2017 09:50:46 +0000 acsimpson 255973@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>"Mike White, of Lawson's Timber,"</em></p> <p>Not heard of them for a while...</p> <p><em>00:00, 29 SEP 2007 UPDATED 00:54, 1 JUL 2012</em></p> <p>That'll be why. I wonder if anything happened to the crooked wardens.</p> <p>I also wonder why Daily Record updated the article 5 years after publishing it. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17963#post-255950 Wed, 26 Jul 2017 08:41:37 +0000 Stickman 255950@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>/* applause */ </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17963#post-255942 Wed, 26 Jul 2017 07:54:48 +0000 I were right about that saddle 255942@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Billy-Ray was Preacher's son and when his daddy would visit he'd come along. When they gathered round and started talking, that's when Billy would take me walking. Through the bakery we'd go walking. Then he'd look into my eyes, Lord knows to my surprise swapped a parking ticket for two Scotch pies. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17963#post-255939 Wed, 26 Jul 2017 07:11:43 +0000 gembo 255939@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>This also features in the bad parking thread. Never realised we read the daily record? The agony aunt Joan McBurnie (her column was called Just Joan - I always thought because she did it on her own, the column I mean, but perhaps she has a heightened sense of justice?) anyway she walks a wee yorkie roseburn lower path. There was also a letter by a Hugh Janus. Published which cheered me no end as an adolescent. Childish I know.</p> <p>Next week they will regurgitate the story of the primary head teacher in west Dumbarton who leased the space outside the school to an ice cream van. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17963#post-255938 Wed, 26 Jul 2017 00:30:35 +0000 chdot 255938@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"We could descend en masse on the establishment in question "</p> <p>Beware -</p> <p>"</p> <p>BYAMY DEVINE<br /> 00:00, 29 SEP 2007UPDATED00:54, 1 JUL 2012</p> <p>" </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17963#post-255935 Tue, 25 Jul 2017 23:26:41 +0000 Arellcat 255935@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>We could descend en masse on the establishment in question ostensibly for a not-PY, and then inform the owner how much business they've just missed out on.</p> <p>I've never heard the 'Traffic Taliban' term either. </p> 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>