Paid parking control in Toulouse: 2500 € PV for the mechanic of the Chalets
The mechanic in the Chalets district accumulates the tickets for the cars of his customers who are waiting in the street after being repaired.
The situation is not getting better for the mechanic of the Chalets. Established since 1987 rue de Châteaudun, in Toulouse, a real neighborhood garage owner well known to all his neighbours, François Deo sees his activity impacted by the successive changes in parking regulations. In 2007 with the arrival of resident (and therefore paying) parking, he found himself stuck. Because once the cars are repaired, they wait in the street before being recovered. “Some customers work and can only come in the evening,” explains the mechanic. Hence the risk of being verbalized which has only increased.
In 2008, François Deo improved a tolerance on the part of Mayor Pierre Cohen who had written to him to tell him that instructions had been given to this effect. The mechanic’s customers remember that the letter from the mayor at the time, previously laminated, was then affixed behind the windshield to remind the public road surveillance officers of municipal leniency.
Then things changed with the municipality elected in 2014. François Deo says he saw the delivery location disappear, which gave him a breath of fresh air. He adapted by renting four parking spaces in a neighboring building. Then, when the agents passed in the street, he still benefited, according to people, from a certain leniency.
The arrival of cars with cameras made the number of tickets jump. “Before it was human beings who passed. The robotic car flashes everyone. ” François Deo pays ruby on the nail for the PV of his customers, that is to say some 2500 € per year. A figure that is likely to increase further.