As some of you may recall, I drive a lot here and I've never actually had a problem parking! 10roops (20c) and some lil guy in Khan Market, or Basant Lok will guide me into a car park, for 20 roops I can leave my keys with them and they'll move my car if need be. I'm still astounded that for 100roops ($2!!) I can have my car valet parked in 5 star hotels! But with over 900 new cars hitting Delhi roads every day, its only going to get worse and I might be paying a lot more for my parking soon!
In the days leading up to Diwali however, the roads were particularly crazy .. especially in Lajpat Nagar where I took my sisterinlaw fabric shopping! My lordy lordy me, never have I had such a drama parking ... so we were just about to give up then a car drove out of a spot .. we zoomed in .. knowing it wasn't exactly a "real" parking spot .. but hey we were one of a long line of cars parked exactly the same way! A few hours later we returned to find a parking ticket stuck on my windscreen!
I've never had a parking ticket issued here ever .. it was only 100 roops (where's the disincentive to park properly?) so we went off and paid it. Imagine our surprise to find there were two outstanding parking fines .. dating back to December 2009 and March the following year (definitely wasn't me!). So one of our old drivers had incurred the fine(s) and not told us! So much for the threat of 3 months imprisonment and a fine of Rs500 if we didn't pay the fine within 30 days!!!!!!!!
No comments:
Post a Comment