Leeds: Your reflections on parking fines

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Many drivers say private parking firms are too quick to issue fines. Should these companies be better regulated and have you or a family member ever had an unfair parking charge?

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00:00Parking charges are verging on the punitive, and I guess all I can say about it is that it's working.

00:09I am being deterred from driving in cities, I start thinking about taking the train or the bus instead.

00:17It's not quite as convenient, but it does get you thinking.

00:20A friend of mine, he got clamps, and when he says, look, this is for theatrical purposes.

00:26I've got stuff in the van, I'm not parking here all night, and he managed to get away with it.

00:32But talking his way out of it, being an actor, he could talk a good talk.

00:36But all the same, it was unfairly clamped, so I guess there are some unfairly getting parking fines, yes.

00:43Until we have the revolution in transport, whereby we simply order up a car on a phone app,

00:52which automatically comes to us and then takes us to where we need to go.

00:56Unfortunately, this is the world we live in.

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