Looks like this guy thought that his blue badge meant that he could park for free for 45 minutes in the 'taxi' drop-off/pick-up point
Uber driver left fuming over £70 fine for parking in Addenbrooke's taxi bay
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"It's easier to find answers from God than them"
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An Uber driver has been left fuming after receiving a £70 fine for parking his cab in a taxi bay, with his disabled blue badge showing.
Raymond Young visited Addenbrooke's on Monday (March 2) to drop a customer off at her appointment, arriving at 10am. He was informed on a previous visit that he would need to park in the taxi bay.
However, upon arriving back at his cab 45 minutes after leaving the vehicle, he found he had been given a parking ticket.
He says the car parking attendant claimed he shouldn't have had his blue badge showing in the taxi bay. Raymond has also claimed that the warden was rude to him, and that his behaviour constituted "harassment".
Raymond, 61 and from Harston, tried to contact Saba, the private company who monitor parking at Addenbrooke's, but has struggled to find an answer as to why he received the fine.
He said: "When I saw I had a ticket, I rushed to find a parking attendant, and his behaviour left a lot to be desired.
"This guy was completely incompetent, I'd lost two hours of my time trying to find answers, and three hours worth of fares having to pay for a parking ticket I was previously told I wouldn't get for parking there.
"If you try to park in the outpatients' area with a taxi, they say you can't park there. And then they give you a ticket when you park in the place you're supposed to - I've tried to reach out and get an explanation, but it's easier to find answers from God than them".
Raymond was asked to follow the appeal claim on the back of his parking charge notice (PCN), but even this caused some difficulty.
He continued: "The instructions on the ticket are tiny, you can't possibly read them without squinting. When I mentioned this to Saba, they just told me that they were concerned that a taxi driver had difficulty with his eyesight - which is incredibly rude. You don't have to have bad eyesight to struggle to read the ticket, the writing on it is ridiculously small.
"I'd sooner go to prison that pay that fine."
A Saba spokesperson said: “Taxi bays are provided for on duty taxis to pick up and drop off patients and visitors to the hospital.
"The hospital provides dedicated blue badge bays and patient and visitor bays for those users who have appointments at the hospital. Customers at Addenbrooke’s currently have to pay for parking even if they are a blue badge holder and forms part of the hospital’s rules for parking.
"We would encourage anyone who feels they have been unfairly penalised to appeal a parking charge notice by following the instructions on the reverse of their notice.
"All Saba employees undergo many weeks of training before being able to carry out patrolled enforcement.”
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