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No. But boarding and alighting passengers is normally an exemption to a parking restriction. The activity must be done in the shortest reasonable time. Assisted boarding is where the passengers are vulnerable and must be accompanied to a place of safety, or collected from it, by the driver. Obviously this takes longer than just dropping somebody off, so PCNs tend mostly to get served to those engaged in assisted boarding, because the car is parked with no apparent activity taking place.

Boarding/alighting and loading are not usually exempt on a taxi rank. As it's not a no stopping bay you could do these things if quick but there would be no come back if caught unless specified in the traffic order.

Good to know for future, thank you.

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I have no idea if there is a case. Paint's a bit faded? I'm skeptical tbh. But I know there are lots of arcane technicalities.

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My wife parked here while taking toddler to swimming lessons / softplay at the nearby leisure centre (they are both physically fit there's no angle there) and got a ticket, then passed it to me to pay. I figure might as well see if there's any way I can weasel our way out of it

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Assist with said weaseling. If it works I'll split it 50/50 between charities of our choices, this is for fun rather than any sort of "justice" thing in this case, as a layman it seems pretty open and shut to me.

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