£300 a year to park at work. Would you pay it?
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Emeye said:
This is seriously taking the piss:
k off!
If it isn't a company vehicle, they can't.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!As to the OP, well, £300 a year doesn't sound that bad to me, but then I pay double that to park at a train station...... Of course, it is the principle you object to, and I can understand that.
Bottom line, any excuse to be anti car though.
Uni Mongs said:
Currently staff pay around 25p per day for parking but it costs the University £4 per space in maintenance and enforcement...
If it really costs them £4 a day per space to "run the parking system" then they need to manage that better, because whoever they've outsourced that to is ripping them off.C
That whole page is great for a game of bullst bingo. 
t version: "Encourage people to walk and use bikes"
t version: "reduce emissions" or "keep the greenies happy"
t version: "make sure it's a fair system"
When did people lose the ability to express things clearly?
t bingo. University web page said:
To support the delivery of a Landscape Strategy which promotes pedestrian and cycle access
Non bullst version: "Encourage people to walk and use bikes"University web page said:
Reviewing effectiveness in delivering the University’s sustainability strategic objectives
Non bullst version: "reduce emissions" or "keep the greenies happy"University web page said:
To ensure the new policy is fair and equitable across staff and student groups
What is the difference between fair and equitable in this sentence? Non bullst version: "make sure it's a fair system"When did people lose the ability to express things clearly?
Loughborough uni has a massive car park (I used to work there) and is nowhere near any public transport.
This is nothing but a money-making exercise.
I'd just park on the street outside. As long as you don't park on double yellow lines they can't do anything. You'd be a fool to let them know that you have a car.
This is nothing but a money-making exercise.
I'd just park on the street outside. As long as you don't park on double yellow lines they can't do anything. You'd be a fool to let them know that you have a car.
Who here actually works at the university?
I do and my girl friend does. We currently have a car that we take on campus, but I think due to this the bikes may get more use!!! we're only PhD'ers so we wont be able to afford it.
Though having said that, when you see some of the cars the students are driving around campus/lboro today £300 will be nothing to mummy and daddy.
I do and my girl friend does. We currently have a car that we take on campus, but I think due to this the bikes may get more use!!! we're only PhD'ers so we wont be able to afford it.
Though having said that, when you see some of the cars the students are driving around campus/lboro today £300 will be nothing to mummy and daddy.
Where I work it's £384 a year for a space but you can use that at anytime which considering we're based in the city center is pretty useful, but that's if you can get a space currently there are just over 300 people waiting for a space with an average 2 year wait.
If you park in the private carpark next to the building it'll cost approx £800-£900 a year.
I'm quite lucky I'm friends with the owners of the newsagents across the road so they let me park at their house during the day
saves me a fortune and I always buy lunch etc from them so they win too 
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In answer to OP question, if I had to pay to park?, £300 a year wouldn't bother me.
If you park in the private carpark next to the building it'll cost approx £800-£900 a year.
I'm quite lucky I'm friends with the owners of the newsagents across the road so they let me park at their house during the day
saves me a fortune and I always buy lunch etc from them so they win too .In answer to OP question, if I had to pay to park?, £300 a year wouldn't bother me.
Otispunkmeyer said:
Who here actually works at the university?
I do and my girl friend does. We currently have a car that we take on campus, but I think due to this the bikes may get more use!!! we're only PhD'ers so we wont be able to afford it.
I do (ish) I was doing a Phd and am now employed but still visit a couple of times a week to use some of the lab equipment/work with students. The bikes always been used as it takes me longer to drive in than cycle (quite apart from the £100 it currently costs- as i said visitors passes when needed and rip up their parking tickets when i get them)I do and my girl friend does. We currently have a car that we take on campus, but I think due to this the bikes may get more use!!! we're only PhD'ers so we wont be able to afford it.
Oh and its not outsourced, the security is employed by the uni and does all the ticketing. Most of the roads really are crap and need resurfacing. I don't think they could make it more pedestrians friendly as most students have no concept of looking before they step into the road and yet they never get hit.
Emeye said:
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!
To be honest they already do this and have done for a while. There are a couple of roads/residential areas along the back end of the Uni where students park their cars in the street. Now there have been signs saying no university parking around these places for a while, but people still do it. At the moment though no one can really do anything about it. Theres no double yellows and no residential parking permit system so the only way to prove you are parking then going to uni is for residents to be nosey little curtain twitchers and watch you do it. They then put a note on your car telling you politely to fk off!k off. They usually tell the council too, but since the council (like all councils) are little more than useless at their jobs, nothing happens.Kiltox said:
No doubt "enforcement" is by a private parking company who actually PAY THEM to do so
They are quite good I have to admit, but Im guessing that 4 quid takes into account campus security driving all round campus 24/7 and into the main student living area in town to make sure everything is kosher. I really cant fault them for the job they do. Its pretty nice to know theyre prepared to come checkup on the students even off campus.
Galsia said:
Loughborough uni has a massive car park (I used to work there) and is nowhere near any public transport.
This is nothing but a money-making exercise.
I'd just park on the street outside. As long as you don't park on double yellow lines they can't do anything. You'd be a fool to let them know that you have a car.
Yeah the new multi-story is quite large and from floor 2 upwards pretty empty even during peak times so theres way more spaces than cars at the moment. The top floor is almost always completely empty. Whats more they have some spaces ear-marked for electric vehicles.......electric vehicles no one has (except one guy who minces about in a lboro branded Gee-Whiz which is a ridiculous attempt at a vehicle)This is nothing but a money-making exercise.
I'd just park on the street outside. As long as you don't park on double yellow lines they can't do anything. You'd be a fool to let them know that you have a car.
Edited by Otispunkmeyer on Saturday 14th May 17:41
Ha ha - I love how the Clarkson knee jerk merchants on here twitch when anyone mentions 'the environment'.
This has F all to do with the environment and everything to do with cuts and the privatisation of further education...
The environment card is played because it's hard (unless you want to look like a certain curly haired twonk on TG) to argue against making the environment a nicer place or leaving a planet that our kids can still breath the air of, but the actual benefit here (to Loughborough) is that they rake in a nice lot of cash from their staff, because everyone will still drive, grumble and pay out...
M.
This has F all to do with the environment and everything to do with cuts and the privatisation of further education...
The environment card is played because it's hard (unless you want to look like a certain curly haired twonk on TG) to argue against making the environment a nicer place or leaving a planet that our kids can still breath the air of, but the actual benefit here (to Loughborough) is that they rake in a nice lot of cash from their staff, because everyone will still drive, grumble and pay out...
M.
Otispunkmeyer said:
Yeah the new multi-story is quite large and from floor 2 upwards pretty empty even during peak times so theres way more spaces than cars at the moment. The top floor is almost always completely empty. Whats more they have some spaces ear-marked for electric vehicles.......electric vehicles no one has (except one guy who minces about in a lboro branded Gee-Whiz which is a ridiculous attempt at a vehicle)
To be fair, there is often an electric Smart parked in those spaces. As an ex-Smart owner I can verify that one of those facts makes it a horrendous attempt at being a car. And the other makes it electric!Edited by Otispunkmeyer on Saturday 14th May 17:41
(It was at least a Roadster, but that didn't stop it just being a repackaging of the for2's horrible subassemblies.)
My uni has a similar kind of strategy going on. However staff don't have to pay for permits at least as far as I'm aware.
They used to have a student car park that was big enough to park probably 50% of student cars. They then did something which meant removing a large staff car park so hijacked the student car park as a staff car park and moved the area for student parking to somewhere that can probably not even fit 20% of student cars.
Then brought in a parking management company to wander round giving tickets to people if they park in staff/permit areas. Not so bad for staff as they seem to have adequate parking numbers but but a bit of a joke for students commuting a distance to uni to get a space anywhere near uni.
My approach was to ignore the rules so I park in a permit car park for some on-campus halls, the place is NEVER more than half full as not many of the residents have cars but they still love putting parking charge notices on my car. Which I also love binning. They must have spent ages and consumed about 8 trees with the amount of letters, final warnings etc they have sent me. Although recently they havn't issued any more so I don't know if they recognise the car and have given up or if it is just a coincidence.
As a staff member it might be a bit difficult for you to refuse to pay and ignore tickets though as they might class it as a disciplinary offence.
They used to have a student car park that was big enough to park probably 50% of student cars. They then did something which meant removing a large staff car park so hijacked the student car park as a staff car park and moved the area for student parking to somewhere that can probably not even fit 20% of student cars.
Then brought in a parking management company to wander round giving tickets to people if they park in staff/permit areas. Not so bad for staff as they seem to have adequate parking numbers but but a bit of a joke for students commuting a distance to uni to get a space anywhere near uni.
My approach was to ignore the rules so I park in a permit car park for some on-campus halls, the place is NEVER more than half full as not many of the residents have cars but they still love putting parking charge notices on my car. Which I also love binning. They must have spent ages and consumed about 8 trees with the amount of letters, final warnings etc they have sent me. Although recently they havn't issued any more so I don't know if they recognise the car and have given up or if it is just a coincidence.
As a staff member it might be a bit difficult for you to refuse to pay and ignore tickets though as they might class it as a disciplinary offence.
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