Do you pass on Pay and Display tickets?
Discussion
Parking in towns has become a very unpleasant scam. Previously-free parking is now being either double-yellowed or replaced with expensive time-limited meters to create more revenue for councils that want to create more jobs (i.e. parking officers). They then ensure you don't get change from the machines so you feel even more ripped off, only to raise the rates whenever they feel like because "that's what all the other towns are doing".
This is driving traffic out of town to megastores, all with the result that people spend less in town, no impulse buying, local specialist shops go bust as they don't get enough customers so the council takes less in business rates, so hikes them up again to perpetuate the vicious circle. But it's OK because they get the revenue from parking. How bloody short-sighted is that? Towns are dying because of it.
This rot needs to be cleansed by returning free parking to town centres; people should be encouraged to use their cars as they are generaly efficient, convenient and add positively to the economy. And they can re-purpose the bus lanes for private vehicle use while they're at it to improve traffic flow (and therefore cash flow).
Harrumph - and not even a single swear word so 1/10.
This is driving traffic out of town to megastores, all with the result that people spend less in town, no impulse buying, local specialist shops go bust as they don't get enough customers so the council takes less in business rates, so hikes them up again to perpetuate the vicious circle. But it's OK because they get the revenue from parking. How bloody short-sighted is that? Towns are dying because of it.
This rot needs to be cleansed by returning free parking to town centres; people should be encouraged to use their cars as they are generaly efficient, convenient and add positively to the economy. And they can re-purpose the bus lanes for private vehicle use while they're at it to improve traffic flow (and therefore cash flow).
Harrumph - and not even a single swear word so 1/10.
A lot of councils use Parking Eye, or something similar, where the system records your registration rather than traffic wardens being used. You presumably have to put your registration into the machine as you buy a ticket to log your car on the system and avoid an automatic fine for non payment being generated because the registration picked up by the cameras hasn't been logged as paid for.
I once gave some change to a lady on a car park where you pay on exit as she found she hadn't got enough. The next day I used a pay and display car park and found a ticked stuck to the machine with two hours left on it. I guess you could say that was good Karma coming back to me.
I once gave some change to a lady on a car park where you pay on exit as she found she hadn't got enough. The next day I used a pay and display car park and found a ticked stuck to the machine with two hours left on it. I guess you could say that was good Karma coming back to me.
I tend to be a bit tight and calculate the parking time I require quite precisely so there's rarely many minutes left on the ticket. However, there's a car park in Hitchin town centre which charges a £3 flat rate for Sundays which I occasionally use and I recall giving my ticket to a very grateful chap on there a while back. No one has given me one for years but it used to happen quite often.
ps most of the pay and display machines local to us have a numeric only numberplate entry, that requires at least 3 numbers......
Total rubbish, if two people with the same numbers in their reg plate swap tickets is that ok then?
Would love to see the case against someone re-using a ticket there!
Total rubbish, if two people with the same numbers in their reg plate swap tickets is that ok then?
Would love to see the case against someone re-using a ticket there!
Matt UK said:
0a said:
Yes. And I always put 000000 in as my reg number, let them try and 'do me' for having a reg on the ticket that's impossible.
Same here. As far as I'm concerned I paid for a space for 2 hours. If I want to use an hour for my car and an hour for my 'friend', then I will. Stuff the greedy local council, they seem to have very little time for my wants and needs, so I'll respond in kind whenever I can.
Edited by Matt UK on Monday 23 December 11:10
Blib said:
I, along with many others, used to do this in the Enfield multi-storey. One has to enter and exit up a narrow ramp where, if one was so inclined, one could proffer the ticket out of the window so that someone entering could take it as the cars crossed.
It worked a treat.
However, the council tumbled this anarchic state of affairs and have now installed machines that photograph your car's number plate as you enter and you pay when you leave.
So, more money for the fine politicians of Enfield Borough council to piss up their favourite wall.
Bah humbug!
So Enfield, like most Councils, will spend c£15,000 with annual operating costs of c£5,000 to replace a system which works effectively just to weed out the lost income of £1,000. Then there is the f00kwits (and theycan never have less than half a dozen of them) that they employ on gold plated pensions to think up these crass policies. Councils. Dontyaluvem.It worked a treat.
However, the council tumbled this anarchic state of affairs and have now installed machines that photograph your car's number plate as you enter and you pay when you leave.
So, more money for the fine politicians of Enfield Borough council to piss up their favourite wall.
Bah humbug!
not sure if they can legally do that though ...retropower said:
ps most of the pay and display machines local to us have a numeric only numberplate entry, that requires at least 3 numbers......
Total rubbish, if two people with the same numbers in their reg plate swap tickets is that ok then?
Would love to see the case against someone re-using a ticket there!
How's that work if you only have two numbers in your plate?Total rubbish, if two people with the same numbers in their reg plate swap tickets is that ok then?
Would love to see the case against someone re-using a ticket there!
k off and keep going.
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