Maldon: Traffic warden snapped on double yellow lines (From Maldon and Burnham Standard)

I've often spotted the same van parked on double yellow lines outside the Blue Boar whilst the *jobsworth* tickets motorists in the vicinity.

From the way the kerbstones are curving I'd say it was pretty close to a junction too tut-tut Mr. Warden...

El Presendente wrote:
From the way the kerbstones are curving I'd say it was pretty close to a junction too tut-tut Mr. Warden...

You'd be about right, pretty sure it's parked between the taxi rank and the junction of Wantz Road.

But: “Parking enforcement vehicles have an exemption under the local traffic regulation order to the restrictions imposed by double yellow line.

However this exemption has limitations; the enforcement vehicle can only be exempt for the time period required to observe another vehicle breaking the parking contravention and the time required to issue and serve the relevant penalty charge notice.

Once this is complete the vehicle has to move on."

Although: "... as a health and safety issue the enforcement vehicle should be parked to the rear of the offending vehicle to act as a safety barrier between the civil enforcement officer and traffic using the road.”

Not only that, in the photo you can just see the corner of the boxed white line of the taxi rank, so the wardens vehicle is far more forward of that than need be thus causing a potential hazard at the junction.

Ah, don't we just love our parking wardens.