Britons spend £8bn a year on parking

taffy056

Is it any wonder city centres are dying on their feet, with local authorities and I suppose private parking taking so much money out of the pockets of shoppers before even reaching the shops? How much then are penalty charges doing the same, together with the ppcs fake tickets are hitting the pockets of people and scaring them away from shopping?

http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/britons-spending-8bn-parking-060635990.html

Coupon-mad

Wow that's loads!

Except for Airport parking, I must spend under £20 a year on other parking as I never really use car parks unless thay are free and always look for an on street free space. So on the odd occasion I will pay 50p or £1 if I have no choice in a Council P&D space or summat.

In my area we would have had a pretty expensive and utterly unworkable Council permit scheme here by now if the vast majority of residents hadn't told the Council [STRIKE]where to go[/STRIKE] that it wasn't a very good idea, thankyou very much ta!

devonlad

I also try to avoid parking etc. An example rather than pay 8 pound to park at beach driving around for ages I just catch train with kids they love it costs 5.70 for us three and dawlish line drives along the sea and stops right at the sea. Pack lunch buckets and spades cheap day out

pustit

Hi devonlad, when we were on hols in Dawlish this spring we took our aunt to an MPs surgery and another "customer" was there to see her about parking tickets. He was very active regarding parking ticket matters and put me on to Pepipoo. Wish I had got his name, Not you by any chance ?

devonlad

pustit wrote: »

Hi devonlad, when we were on hols in Dawlish this spring we took our aunt to an MPs surgery and another "customer" was there to see her about parking tickets. He was very active regarding parking ticket matters and put me on to Pepipoo. Wish I had got his name, Not you by any chance ?

no not me i work for a living. did you like dawlish? i am so lucky here we got pick of beaches and i got parking down to a tee now. dont pay at dawlish teignmouth, exemouth, shaldon etc

:beer:

Kite2010

To councils, motorists are cash cows.

No wonder why some town-centres are like ghost-towns.

pustit

devonlad wrote: »

no not me i work for a living. did you like dawlish? i am so lucky here we got pick of beaches and i got parking down to a tee now. dont pay at dawlish teignmouth, exemouth, shaldon etc

:beer:

Yes we love Dawlish. An aunt lives there and we manage to visit at least once a year.
After I got talking to this other Devon lad at the MPs surgery I told the aunt about PPCs. She then admitted she had paid twice in the last couple of years. Once in Plymouth and more recently at the Co-op in Dawlish.
She knows better now.
There are still so many innocent law-abiding citizens being taken in by this scam.