BBC Documentaries

Parking Mad (2013x6)

: 08, 2013

Documentary about people who fight their parking tickets, following the stories of both the council parking enforcement departments who issue tickets - and the motorists who have decided to fight back against the system. Aside from the stories of the ordinary motorists fighting their individual tickets, the film also follows 'parking campaigners', dedicated amateurs who insist that the councils are unjustly punishing motorists and using parking as a way to raise revenues. Some get tickets deliberately to prove their point, others take their parking tickets to the High Court, whilst one group have even formed a masked motorcycle gang to take their fight to the streets. The film also hears from the other side of the issue - the Traffic Penalty Tribunal, the legally-binding national body that has the final say on whether motorists must pay their parking tickets or not.