Parking tickets update - two years on
Thursday, 20 November 2008Over 140,000 parking tickets have been issued to illegally parked vehicles across the North in the second year of the current parking enforcement contract.
This represents a decrease of approx 20,000 tickets from the first year of operation.
There were 142,754 tickets issued in the second year, from November 2007- November 2008, which represents a weekly average of 2,745 and a daily average, Monday to Saturday, of 457. In year one the number of tickets issued was 163,500.
Speaking on the decrease in ticket numbers, Simon Richardson, Parking Enforcement Manager with Roads Service said: "A decrease in tickets is a positive indication that our objective of encouraging people to park properly is working. If drivers heed our advice then tickets cannot be issued.
“In April this year we announced that surveys showed a significant reduction in illegal parking since the start of the new enforcement operation. It is therefore not surprising that the number of tickets issued during the second year has reduced.
Mr Richardson said this reduction was not as a result of a relaxation of enforcement or a change in policy or procedures: "This is the second anniversary of the start of the new parking enforcement operation. We continue to ask drivers to park properly and help keep the roads free for traffic flow and safe for pedestrians and drivers alike," he added.
Notes to Editors:
1. The Department for Regional Development became responsible for parking enforcement at the end of October 2006. Following a short period of issuing warning notices only, the issue of parking tickets commenced on 13 November 2006.
2. Parking Tickets Issued in Second Year.
Belfast : 48415
Derry: 13883
Enniskillen: 8036
Lisburn : 7055
Omagh : 5117
Newry : 4812
Coleraine : 4471
Ballymena : 4419
Bangor : 4132
Armagh : 3303
Newtownards : 3268
Magherafelt : 3182
Portadown : 3121
Dungannon : 2993
Downpatrick : 2611
Strabane : 2559
Cookstown : 2379
Carrickfergus : 2122
Lurgan : 1683
Newcastle : 1643
Ballymoney : 1453
Limavady : 1444
Banbridge: 1384
Antrim : 1286
Holywood : 986
Portrush: 955
Newtownabbey : 734
Larne : 665
Ballyclare : 593
Portstewart : 489
Other : 3561
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