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Unfair parking practices: have your say
Former_MSE_Wendy
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The government wants to know what concerns you have about parking in your local area, on both public or private land.
It's currently looking at the policy areas that should be a priority for the next Government, who ever that may be.
What do you think is unfair?
Whether it's...
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It's currently looking at the policy areas that should be a priority for the next Government, who ever that may be.
What do you think is unfair?
Whether it's...
- excessive and often misleading 'fines' given for parking on private land
- unclear signs
- lack of available spaces
- machines not allowing you to pay by cash
- the need for more support for local high streets
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I have read the Government's Consultation Paper on Parking Reform: Tackling Unfair Practices.
I have a specific complaint: that both Manchester Airport and Liverpool Airport have made it well-nigh impossible (in the case of Liverpool, absolutely impossible; in the case of Manchester, it depends on the Terminal) to merely drop somebody off or pick them up without paying a parking fee, even though the driver stays for no more than two or three minutes. At Liverpool, the charge is now £2 for simply stopping to drop someone off or pick them up, and there is no way to avoid it. In Manchester, T1, the same applies, though in T3 you can drop off, but not pick up, and there the charges are even higher than in Liverpool.
It seems to me that the airport authorities are using passengers as a 'cash cow' with this practice, and I believe the government should step in and ban the practice. No-one minds paying for parking if there is genuine 'parking'; but if if it just a question of stopping for a few minutes to unload or accept passengers, this is too much!
Paul Allerton0 -
this is the direct link to the start of the survey if you don't want to read up on it
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MVFQBFX
Ralph:cool:0 -
Marvellous. After driving away a long-standing, knowledgeable and helpful poster by deleting his posts about this very consultation, you now start your own thread about it!
I really think someone owes trubster an apology.Je suis Charlie.0 -
The idea that local authorities have a right to demand money for parking, yet refuse to accept any responsibility for theft, damage, etc., is inherently unfair. So is the increasing practice of charging for parking on residential streets, thereby forcing drivers into large car parks with high fees. So is the principle that you have to buy blocks of time in advance, much of which you may not use, rather than charging by the minute for time actually used. So is the law which prevents you from passing on your partially-used ticket to other motorists, so allowing the operator, in effect, to sell the same time block several times over. So is the continuing practice of installing parking meters which do not give change, thereby increasing revenue. (What other service provider is legally allowed to say "We don't give change"?)0
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Yet again, everyone wants to park for free in residential streets but what about the people who live there? By 7am my road is chock a block with commuters and office workers who bring their cars in from outside town and block off all the local roads. They pay nothing to the council for use of roads, nor for pollution. I can't have visitors, friends round for an hour or two, or even go out shopping in the car because there is no place for me to return to. Why shouldn't we be allowed to park outside our homes? Please, just think of the other person's view occasionally: if it is a permit zone, we have to pay for that too. We should be campaigning for a better bus service, or park and ride.0
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Anyone who pays their vehicle excise duty ("road tax") has paid for the privilege of parking anywhere they are legally allowed to. That includes outside your property, if there are no defined parking restrictions there.We should be campaigning for a better bus service, or park and ride.
When are you going to start this campaign? Or are you sitting there, quietly fuming, waiting for someone else to do it?0 -
Yet again, everyone wants to park for free in residential streets but what about the people who live there? By 7am my road is chock a block with commuters and office workers who bring their cars in from outside town and block off all the local roads. They pay nothing to the council for use of roads, nor for pollution. I can't have visitors, friends round for an hour or two, or even go out shopping in the car because there is no place for me to return to. Why shouldn't we be allowed to park outside our homes? Please, just think of the other person's view occasionally: if it is a permit zone, we have to pay for that too. We should be campaigning for a better bus service, or park and ride.
In most places the highway authority is the County Council, so if these evil people live in the same county as you then they are paying for the roads just the same as you are.
If you want special privileges on the public highway then by all means lobby for a residents' parking zone, but since that will give you special privileges on the public highway it seems fair enough that you should at least pay to cover the costs of the scheme.
You want to campaign for better buses or park-and-ride? Go ahead, no-one's stopping you!Je suis Charlie.0
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