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Loading and unloading
Loading and unloading is the continuous movement
of goods to and from a premises. This includes the
time taken to check the goods delivered and carry
out any essential paperwork associated with the
delivery, such as gaining the customer’s signature.
Once the delivery process is complete you
must move the vehicle straight away, even if it is
within the maximum period allowed for loading
and unloading.
The time allowed for loading and unloading varies
across the Capital, but is typically either 20 minutes
or 40 minutes; on red routes a period of up to
20 minutes is usually observed. Always check
the signs.
A penalty charge may be issued if it is not clear
that loading/unloading activities are taking place.
A great deal of this problem could be solved with as system such as 15 minutes free parking in any pay and display and residents bay.
That gives people time to get someone in or out of a house, buy a ticket, get change, nip into the shop to collect something... even get their coffee.
It also means less cars driving around and polluting, either looking for a space or driving about while waiting for someone doing one of the above.
After the 15 minutes you get a ticket.
There's a couple of ways of doing this.
Traffic wardens would need to observe a vehicle and then come back to it 15 minutes later (not really a massive ask and entirely workable).
You get a little clock timer board that you display on the windscreen showing when you parked.
Little machines issue free tickets with time printed on them.
All of it is open to abuse, but arguably what we have at the moment is councils, traffic wardens and above all the private sector (which runs all this parking shenanigans under contract) abusing the system for profit by removing the use of common sense.
That lack of common sense is obvious as almost everyone has a 'I turned round, went to get change, picked my kid up ticket' story - and almost all small businesses moan about parking.
That lack of common sense does nothing to help the system, which with the contempt people hold for it in and anger they have, is clearly busted.
We could do something about it, or we could just continue to let it be as crap as it is now.
The most annoying ticket I ever got was in Islington. I pulled into a shared-use red-route bay to read the sign, realised I couldn't park in it, and drove forward into the next bay, where I could legally park. But I got ticketed just for driving into the wrong bay, even though I didn't get out of the car or even switch off the engine!
But they know what's good for us, so don't complain.