MT EDEN PARKING WARDEN TICKETS MOBILITY SCOOTER OUTSIDE DAIRY — INSISTS IT WAS "AT AN ANGLE"
The scooter's owner, 81, was inside buying a Trumpet. The fine is $40.
An Auckland Transport warden has slapped a $40 ticket on a mobility scooter parked outside the Mt Eden Road dairy. The reason given: parked "at an angle inconsistent with the marked bay".
The scooter belongs to Lorraine Pethybridge, 81, of Valley Road. She'd popped in for a Trumpet and her Lotto numbers. She came back out to a yellow envelope wedged under her library-book basket.
"I wasn't even in a park," Lorraine told The Daily Yarn. "I was on the footpath. Where I've parked Beverley twice a week since 2019. He said the front wheel was over a line. There is no bloody line."
Dairy owner Sanjay Patel watched the whole thing from behind the Moro bars. "He got a tape measure out. For a scooter. I've worked here eleven years and that's a new one."
An Auckland Transport spokesperson said the ticket was "issued in accordance with bylaw" and that mobility scooters were "not exempt from compliance". Asked which bay Lorraine had occupied, the spokesperson said the matter was "under review".
Lorraine has appealed. Beverley has been shunted six inches left and remains, as of Thursday, unticketed.
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Reader Letters
Garry (Halswell)
Back in my day, you could park a wheelbarrow anywhere in Mt Eden, and no one batted an eyelid. Now they're out here ticketing grandmothers. Madness!
TrevorK
Honestly, I think Lorraine should win an award for even managing a scooter at 81! The warden should be helping her, not penalising her.
couchgremlin
Lol
AngryAndProud
This is what happens when government officials have too much power. They're trying to CONTROL every inch of our lives. MARK MY WORDS, next they'll be ticketing bicycles in our own sheds.
Sandra_McK
The ticket was $40, not $60 as the article stated. Important to get these details right when discussing these issues.
BarryBishopdale
@Sandra_McK Nah Sandra, the article says $40, maybe check your glasses!