Rupert Dobbin / 07 March 2025 / Categories: City, Transportation & Parking

Ringo App

And parking in Westminster London

Who’s to blame when you pay for parking via a parking app like like Ringo app and then you get a parking ticket?

How is it possible to have three parking sessions on the go in central London via the Ringo Parking app and still get a ticket?

I use the parking apps all the time, Pay By Phone, Just Park and Ringo. Not sure what the difference is and I don’t know how people cope driving in London without a smart phone.

Is it more convenient to pay for parking via an app, I guess so except when you get a parking ticket anyway. Interestingly the wording in the ticket says the enforcement officer “believes” a contravention took place so I wonder are councils so broke now it’s sort of a crap shoot, hand out the tickets anyway and if some get paid great and the rest that are challenged we just back down?

I’ve challenged the ticket I got yesterday with a payment receipt for the time in question from

Ringo. It will be interesting to see if that is enough to stop the wheels in motion to get the bailiffs round when I don’t pay the actual ticket.

The parking apps are great, convenient maybe however yesterday because I had three stops to make for three meetings and wasn’t 100% sure how long I needed, the parking session I got the ticket for I’d paid for 3 hours I ended up not needing and had to pay for a further two hours in different locations.

Wouldn’t it be amazing if you could use unused minutes from one session on the next?

And then he woke up.

If you need to challenge a parking ticket issued after paying for parking in the City of Westminster via the Ringo app I have put the link below.