parking enforcement

Parking tickets. Or here we go again.

Andy Boal on February 17, 2018, 7:26 pm | Readers 1900

Retail NI has issued their standard response to the news that 94,252 tickets were issued for unlawful on-street parking in 2017. Outrageous. Over-zealous. Clear and negative impact. Neither sensible nor fair. They’ve said it all before. Ten tickets “every single day” of 2016 on the Lisburn Road is apparently horrendously over-zealous. It’s an unfair disparity. But Glyn doesn’t appear to understand something very very simple. Why would a road which is two miles long and is subject to Urban Clearway …

Parking ticket post code lottery

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on April 4, 2012, 10:10 am | Readers 62

portion of The Detail's parking enforcement map

Continuing the development of data journalism across at The Detail, Kathryn Torney this morning published details of where parking tickets have been issued. DRD – and their contractors NSL (formerly NCP) – have always been keen to explain that the commercial contract is about keeping streets safe and traffic free-flowing, rather than being based around revenue targets. And this story confirms this. … figures we obtained from the Department for Regional Development (DRD) show that the cost of enforcement has …