Wednesday 10 September 2008

My kind of parking penalties and more motoring stories from Uganda

During my stay in Uganda I discovered that although there was no discipline amongst drivers they all respected parking restrictions in the city. As far as I could tell no one parked on a yellow line where there was one.

The system appears to be that you find a space to park, park your car for as long as you want. When you return, the Parking Attendant would have left you a ticket or two depending on the duration of your stay. If you have a prepaid voucher you then hand that over (which is a cheaper way to pay) or you pay cash based on the time you have spent in the space and not as a fine!

Me thinks they have this the right around. incredibly no one goes off without paying!!

I wonder who has the right of way here.. I wonder if those pedestrians will make it across!





In search of water.. not sure whether the driver can see through any of the mirrors





Well what can I say about Miss blondie here.. we had to wait on this mountain road for 30minutes whislt she decided whether to get out the way, she is cute though!

2 comments:

itsspeltmaik said...

That system sounds brilliant. Shame they couldn't pull it off here in England though: people aren't that honest :(

Lovley pics too :D

Unknown said...

Many thanks Mike, it would be great if we had a similar system. Local Authorities are more interested in making money!