Councils New Craze Is Ghost Ticketing

Here in the UK it has to be said that most of the population are in union when it comes to disliking Traffic Wardens, something to do with them enjoying their job I think. It would seem that many councils have a new way to catch people who park illegally that is both unfair and has many flaws indeed.

Ghost ticketing is when a council will use their CCTV cameras to actually catch someone that is parked illegally and issue them the ticket in that way. They are looking to do this partly because hiring a private firm is expensive and partly because doing it this way gives them a higher chance to catch someone which of course in turn gives them more money.

Why is this a bad thing?

There is a huge flaw when it comes to this idea and it is called a disabled person, I will explain? The councils that are already taking part in this have actually already said that it is going to be almost impossible to check to see whether the car has a blue badge on it, well that’s a great one isn’t it. This is not fair at all for the person that is disabled, they then have to go out of their way to cancel the fine.

Aren’t These Meant For Crime Prevention?

With the cameras more focused on people that are parked illegally what happens top the crime levels. This is not a good thing at all and it will be interesting to see if the crime rate rockets because of this scheme.

Fair

It is hard for people to argue against this form of ticket because they will not even know about it until it comes through the letterbox. Basically this means that people are going to forget the date and time that this happened, no excuses in mind, not fair is it really.

All of this is not going to help you when looking for bad credit car loans as well as cheap lease cars. Parking tickets do also not help when looking for specific deals like gap insurance.