£300 a year to park at work. Would you pay it?

[sawman]

If I were to pay as I go to park at my places of work it would cost me just over £1k a year to park (out of my net salary) Fortunately I am able to arrange to pay for 3 days of this(I work for someone else the other 2 days) by salary deduction, this reduces the cost a little and allows me to pay from gross salary .

I would be happy to cough for 300 a year!

[cambiker71]

Some of the rules are interesting.

If I have a permit will it guarantee me a parking space?

No, a permit will give you the ‘right to roam'. Staff and students car parks will be kept in place and will be enforced by Security.

[dxg]

Rawwr said:

Website said:

To support the University-wide Travel Plan which is to reduce single occupancy vehicles on to and across campus

?

The campus is huge and your can be timetabled to finish one lecture at, say, 10am, with the other starting at 10am three quarters of a mile away!

Colleagues have been know to jump in their cars to get from one end of campus to the other, because "there's no other way to do it." Me? I finish the first lecture 15 minutes early and walk...

[bigcam101]

In southampton its £8 a day to park, by far not the highest but still a rip off! Bus for me is still £5.50 and its a 15 min drive!! Welcome to rip off britain!

[Motorrad]

The charge is one thing.....basing it on CO2 is another. Bunch of fking nazis (we can end the thread now).

[Rawwr]

dxg said:

The campus is huge and your can be timetabled to finish one lecture at, say, 10am, with the other starting at 10am three quarters of a mile away!

Colleagues have been know to jump in their cars to get from one end of campus to the other, because "there's no other way to do it." Me? I finish the first lecture 15 minutes early and walk...

My point was that a bicycle is a 'single occupancy vehicle'

[RemainAllHoof]

dxg said:

Me? I finish the first lecture 15 minutes early and walk...

By finish, I take it you're a lecturer? Aren't students or your employer paying you for the full hour?

But yes, it is stupid. I remember giving up a course because the distance was about 2 miles between the lecture halls for the two courses and you had 5 minutes to get there.

[TheMoron]

NiceCupOfTea said:

See You Next Tuesdays.

TM

[sharpfocus]

I pay £10 a day. I guess that's £50 a week, 48 weeks in a year, so £2400?

Thank fk I expense it straight back! I'm not even in London.

[varsas]

RemainAllHoof said:

Yes, yes, those cars with exactly 2.0L engines will be allowed to park FOC.

Are theere any? Because of the pi in the volume calculations, even if the bore/stroke are in whole metric numbers the capacity never seems to come out to a whole number...anyone know a car that is 2000cc to the nearest cc?

[H_Kan]

Having visited L'boro a few times, that is an absolute joke. The place has shocking transport links eg. bus from Leicester takes an hour, driving takes about 12 minutes and the train station is miles from the uni.

[miniman]

Bristol city centre is £20 per day. Oddly a season ticket in the same carpark is £85 per month.

[RemainAllHoof]

varsas said:

Are theere any? Because of the pi in the volume calculations, even if the bore/stroke are in whole metric numbers the capacity never seems to come out to a whole number...anyone know a car that is 2000cc to the nearest cc?

I wondered that. Usually, it's just under or just over.

[deveng]

my car park at work is free. and the permit that comes with it means I can park at all Silverstone events FOC. and considerably closer than most other people.

Just putting that out there.

[23rdian]

Would already cost me that much if I didn't choose to park elsewhere and have a 5 minute walk.

I pay road tax so it gets parked on the road.

[Emeye]

This is seriously taking the piss:

Nazi University said:

Students are required to register their cars if they bring them to Loughborough. Any cars parked off campus can be cross referenced with our records and disciplinary action will be taken. The University is also working closely with local community groups and the council with the view of installing a Controlled Parking Zone (CPZ) around the campus.

How can they possibly dictate where you park you car if you choose to park it legally off campus?! I would tell them to fk off!

[Kiltox]

mxspyder said:

We are in new offices that were granted 4 parking spaces for an office of 10!

Pretty standard now - we have < 40 for 400 where I work

Also - I know this thread is about staff, but students there should consider themselves lucky they can pay for a permit - none at the uni I go to despite more parking spaces than staff

Edited by Kiltox on Saturday 14th May 06:24

Edited by Kiltox on Saturday 14th May 06:25

[mcdjl]

dxg said:

The campus is huge and your can be timetabled to finish one lecture at, say, 10am, with the other starting at 10am three quarters of a mile away!

Colleagues have been know to jump in their cars to get from one end of campus to the other, because "there's no other way to do it." Me? I finish the first lecture 15 minutes early and walk...

I was going to say that but whenever i've driven across campus its always taken me longer to park than cycle... Fortunately I've never paid for a permit- even at the lower rate and have got away with visitors passes of which i have a substantial collection.

[physprof]

The reduced carbon footprint in unis as in many business is bull.

My place has similar aspirations it is sector wide and part of several areas where money is frittered away without any thought.

Regarding carbon footprint my commute in a 3.2litre car is trivial as compared to the power required to run my laboratories and the biggest elephant in the room - national and international air travel.

A couple of years back I used one of these calculators that indicated my annual air travel is equivalent in co2 to about 15 years commuting.

[Kiltox]

There are plans to tax companies based on the amount of parking spaces they have, IIRC