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    A question for parking wardens

    or those in the know. I farked off from the orifice early today and as I was walking to my bike (or hobbling cos I'm on crutches now) at the end of the row, every one of the twenty bikes parked there had chalk marks on the rear tyres? Anyone know whats that about?

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    Time limit mate. They walk past, mark the tyre with chalk, note the time and carry on their evil way. After completing a loop they come back after the expired period, any bike still there with chalk on it's tyre hasn't moved. Time for a ticket.

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    Ive had that a few times, im only guessing but i think its about the time you have been parked there, possibly coming to the end of allowed time?
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    Cool

    Were you all parked in a "BIKE ONLY" spot?

    Is there a sign up with "park for X amount of time only" there?


    Maybe this parking warden is a newbie and is trying to impress the boss.

    That don't happen up here in Auckland...

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    OAB beat me to it.... cheers for the confirm
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    WTF. Bike parking spaces with time limits????? Where is this? and what's the time limit?
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    Quote Originally Posted by stunz
    or those in the know. I farked off from the orifice early today and as I was walking to my bike (or hobbling cos I'm on crutches now) at the end of the row, every one of the twenty bikes parked there had chalk marks on the rear tyres? Anyone know whats that about?
    yeah, if there, say a 60 minute free carpark, the warden will come along, check their watch, and start marking tyres.. if she comes back 60 minutes later, and there is still a car in the designated space with chalk on the tyre, then they get a ticket..
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    I didn't think bike parking spaces had time limits....
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    There's no time limit on bike parks in Wellington.

    Unless they've institued one without signposting and buried the new reg in the Public Notices section of the Sunday paper two months ago.

    Which they wouldn't be above doing, just to get their own back on the councillors that got the proposal to apply an hourly charge to bike parking thrown out.
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    Quote Originally Posted by crashe
    Were you all parked in a "BIKE ONLY" spot?
    Is there a sign up with "park for X amount of time only" there?
    Its a bike park. I've been parking there every day for the last two plus years and I've never seen a chalk mark on any tyres in that time. If there is a new time limit, I guess I'd better take a closer look at the signs. Parly end of The Terrace.

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    Spoke with WCC this morning. No reason why the warden would have done this as bike parking is free. Suspect the warden was bored and thought he'd but the frights on us bikers who get to park in the CBD for free...

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    A good bugger will always rub them off...

    Gotta be careful, cause some meter nazis put multiple marks on a tyre...
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    Could be the same warden/s that gave me tickets for no WOF/no Reg five times in the last two weeks. Which I find amusing considering the bike is both rego'd and WOF, AND they are displayed! Guess it's payback for fighting my last parking fines.

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    Quote Originally Posted by stunz
    Spoke with WCC this morning. No reason why the warden would have done this as bike parking is free. Suspect the warden was bored and thought he'd but the frights on us bikers who get to park in the CBD for free...
    Probably couldn't be bothered doing any real work and facing harrassment from car drivers, so he/she decided to mark the bikes as proof they were actually doing something!

    With regards to time limits, I'd say you wouldn't have a leg to stand on (or a crutch, in your case!) if you parked in a car park with a time limit and left it there all day though.
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    Could we lay a complaint to the police about the warden tagging my tyre?

    I some little snot nose kid did it we could.

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