Toulouse: a new victim of automatic parking control
Another Toulouse motorist was fined when she took her ticket at the parking meter, rue de la Colombette in Toulouse. A new victim of the computer bug mentioned by the town hall?
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who lives in Toulouse in the Saint-Aubin district, recently received a report for lack of surface parking rue de la Colombette, on December 14, 2022. The only problem, like Anne-Marie (our edition of January 13), she says she was verbalized while she took her ticket at the ticket machine.
The report notes the offense at 2:53 a.m. instead of 2:53 p.m.
“I had taken my car to go to barter on rue de la Colombette where I had an appointment at 3:15 p.m. to bring clothes, I arrived and parked at 2:50 p.m., says the young retiree from the municipal police. from Toulouse, I know my duty as a citizen and always pay for my parking. Hence my astonishment when I received the parking ticket at 2:53 p.m. I think I was fined while taking the ticket at the ticket machine, which was quite a distance from the car. But I didn’t take 10 minutes to pay. In addition, the reporting officer indicated 2:53 on the report, a first defect in form. It’s inconsistent and abusive”, protests the motorist who sent a protest email to the town hall at the end of last week with a copy of the report received and proof of his appointment: “I unfortunately did not keep my ticket “. The Toulousaine even touched a word of her adventure to the mayor of Toulouse met in town.
The 10-minute tolerance again found wanting
A new anomaly in the functioning of the automatic surface parking control system put in place by the municipality. We know that two cars equipped with cameras constantly crisscross the city center and read the license plates of vehicles parking without a ticket or having exceeded the paid period.
The first name has been changed at the person’s request.