My heart moved into my throat when suddenly beside me stood a true blue Chch parking warden ... third time luck I suppose. This was the third illegal parking I'd done down town in a under 1/2 hr. First time I exceeded the 5min parking zone, 2nd time parked in a very large but empty taxi bay and third time parking with bicycles. In all cases I was within 5m of the bike and in plain sight of it.
He gave me a 30 second speechwhich basically told me that there is free bike parking around town and parking on the foot path attracts an instant $40 fine.
... my mouth went dry ... I was BUSTED!![]()
But since he hadn't unhooked his ticket writing machine I thought there's a slim chance I'll be lucky ...![]()
Then he smiled and said but today's your lucky day ... I'm not as mean as the other parking wardens and since Ia !!BIKE!! too, I understand ... just don't do it again!
Yes sir, thanks for the heads up!
So BIG THANKS to that parking warden. Sorry I couldn't catch your name off your badge since I couldn't see it and we got interrupted by some tourists asking directions to the post office before I could ask! And I most definitely wasn't going to hang around and wait for him to change his mind![]()
So there it is. The official WORD.
We're NOT allowed to park on the foot path, even if we are not obstructing in any manner (I was parked between the N-Shape tie bars with the bicycles which easily could've held two bicycles or me)
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