Dirty parking protest

[BoostMonkey]

telecat said:

CraigyMc said:

telecat said:

I believe Boots in Nottingham has similar problems.

I've been there a few times and never had a problem parking on the site.
I doubt there are all that many issues with local residents because the site is so huge you'd have to walk about 15 minutes to park near housing and then get to the buildings you're heading for.

I could be wrong: obviously I don't live there.

C

The Solution there is the Problem. They have 4,500 Spaces and 3,000 of them lie within Nottingham's "Parking levy" area. Hence employees have to contribute to parking.

Nottingham is an absolute joke for parking, I only now go there on business, but it cost almost £10 for 2 hours to park in the NCP carpark. The government agency who I visit are exempt from the councils rules and so their staff all have spot free of charge.

One rule for the public & private business another for the inefficient and poorly managed public agencies and government.

[anonymous-user]

300bhp/ton said:

But that's your choice, not everyone may be able to afford this. And if you are currently paying nothing to park to suddenly paying £900-1200/year that's a huge chunk of money for someone say earning £15-18k a year.

Using your logic its not the homeowners problem that they took a job earning that sort of money. It would piss me off if I had to put with it and I understand their frustrations.

[300bhp/ton]

yonex said:

300bhp/ton said:

But that's your choice, not everyone may be able to afford this. And if you are currently paying nothing to park to suddenly paying £900-1200/year that's a huge chunk of money for someone say earning £15-18k a year.

Using your logic its not the homeowners problem that they took a job earning that sort of money. It would piss me off if I had to put with it and I understand their frustrations.

I'm not saying it's right, but a public road is just that.

[Motorrad]

I see.......park where legal and it's ok for some s to spread st on your car.

If you're legal then it's fair game to park as others do.

With any luck someone will set up a cam and catch the fkers.

[irocfan]

300bhp/ton said:

yonex said:

300bhp/ton said:

But that's your choice, not everyone may be able to afford this. And if you are currently paying nothing to park to suddenly paying £900-1200/year that's a huge chunk of money for someone say earning £15-18k a year.

Using your logic its not the homeowners problem that they took a job earning that sort of money. It would piss me off if I had to put with it and I understand their frustrations.

I'm not saying it's right, but a public road is just that.

there's no denying that - however the standard of parking has to be seen to be believed. For every 'good' commuter there is at least one total who thinks s/he owns the fking road and can park where the fk they like. Total fking cumdumpsters who really need shooting

[anonymous-user]

Motorrad said:

With any luck someone will set up a cam and catch the fkers.

2 girls 1 cup?

[300bhp/ton]

irocfan said:

there's no denying that - however the standard of parking has to be seen to be believed. For every 'good' commuter there is at least one total who thinks s/he owns the fking road and can park where the fk they like. Total fking cumdumpsters who really need shooting

Then only report those ones. Or maybe try and ask them nicely if they could park better/more considerately.

[Deva Link]

excel monkey said:

I think the council's "solution" is that everyone uses public transport rather than driving their cars to work...

Not just driving to work. A new little estate has been tacked on to our fairly rural village. It was approved with a fairly tight number of spaces and this was reduced further during the build.

The road past it is 40MPH so cars can't park there so the grass verges at the entrance just end up covered in cars every night. Looks terrible, and makes pulling off the estate hazardous as drivers can't see traffic on the main road.

[GadgeS3C]

BoostMonkey said:

Nottingham is an absolute joke for parking, I only now go there on business, but it cost almost £10 for 2 hours to park in the NCP carpark. The government agency who I visit are exempt from the councils rules and so their staff all have spot free of charge.

One rule for the public & private business another for the inefficient and poorly managed public agencies and government.

Oh yes, I live there! My OH used to have to commute to Birmingham which she preferred to do by train. To park in the official station car park added £9 a day to the cost. Some enterprising types opened a car park on wasteground at £3 a day but the council then limited them to a max of 5 hours parking. Sod all use for commuting.

She'd quite happily have taken the bus, in fact she'd prefer to, but that meant a 10 minute walk to a bus stop and the first bus was too late for her to catch her train.

So, pretty tricky even for someone that likes using public transport.

[oyster]

I bet there are dozens of workers at AXA who drive the same route at the same time every day, yet each drives their own car to the office.

[Drive Blind]

oyster said:

I bet there are dozens of workers at AXA who drive the same route at the same time every day, yet each drives their own car to the office.

no wonder, their cars all smell like st! would you want to share?

[300bhp/ton]

oyster said:

I bet there are dozens of workers at AXA who drive the same route at the same time every day, yet each drives their own car to the office.

That's hardly reason that people should share though. Having a car is about independence, not suddenly being dependant on others or else. Sure share if you want to, but you shouldn't ever be made to feel as though you must.

[otolith]

Axa have flexible working, there could be people working all sorts of odd hours.

[corozin]

Presumably this will escalate to dog st through letter boxes will it?
This is going to get messy, thanks to a few morons.

[Deva Link]

Ozzie Osmond said:

300bhp/ton said:

Ozzie Osmond said:

Sounds daft. All they need to do is get the council to implement a "two hours parking or resident's permit" scheme. Job done.

Sadly all that does is attack the people who aren't at fault though.

Oh really? Maybe you can make a list of those for us?

Permits (my daughter lived in a permit area and so do some friends of ours) are a pain for residents and their visitors/tradesmen etc. It one thing if you buy knowing the scheme is already there, but could be a nightmare if introduced post-purchase.

[Engineer1]

The issue is the government in general would prefer you to not use your own transport to get to work, so rather than reducing bus fares or helping make public transport an option they restrict parking as people will figure out how to get to work. It happens everywhere, the hospital my wife used to work at had staff parking problems, the locals hated staff parking on the street outside their houses but even more vehemently opposed the idea of building a staff multi-storey carpark.

Public transport sucks for a lot of commutes, not helped by the fact that for a lot of people moving closer isn't viable due to the house prices or the stagnant housing market. So that means people are facing long commutes.