The Mail gets dirty

Whatdoiknow

I like the Daily Mail:p

The_Deep

Then as mentioned before, the solution is "pay as you leave" with barriers. Works brilliantly at my local hospital

and mine.

RichardD1970

halibut2209 wrote: »

Then as mentioned before, the solution is "pay as you leave" with barriers. Works brilliantly at my local hospital

The_Deep wrote: »

and mine.

and mine.

You can even get a weekly pass if you have a relative who will be in for a while.

TheFlamingRed

The_Deep wrote: »

Then as mentioned before, the solution is "pay as you leave" with barriers. Works brilliantly at my local hospital

and mine.

Out of interest, what if they charged you £100 for exit barriers in a free car park, for overstaying more then x hours?

surfboy1

TheFlamingRed wrote: »

Out of interest, what if they charged you £100 for exit barriers in a free car park, for overstaying more then x hours?

just don't pay, what could they do?

TheFlamingRed

surfboy1 wrote: »

just don't pay, what could they do?

I meant, that was the charge you had to pay to raise the barrier. It's hypothetical of course.

Guys_Dad

That would be clamping by any other name and, as it was made illegal, reasonable force could be applied to effect an exit.

HO87

Is there any danger that this thread might return to the original subject?

Every off-topic post plays into the hands of those that have neither knowledge nor interest in the subject other than keeping it away from the subject.

I do not like nor do I read the DM but all power to their elbow if they are prepared to put in the level of research and commitment to following through that few other media outlets have shown. Even Watchdog seem to have gone off the boil.

Dee140157

It's ok HO87, there will be a new thread tomorrow when the DM do another parking story. Let's see what that brings...

londonTiger

HO87 wrote: »

Is there any danger that this thread might return to the original subject?

Every off-topic post plays into the hands of those that have neither knowledge nor interest in the subject other than keeping it away from the subject.

I do not like nor do I read the DM but all power to their elbow if they are prepared to put in the level of research and commitment to following through that few other media outlets have shown. Even Watchdog seem to have gone off the boil.

Sorry you are wrong about daily mail. They're just using sensatalised headlines on populist stances just to get more readers. They do not have the publics interest at heart. If you want change join 38degrees and become an activist.

Create your own campaigns for parking and get issues brought to the attention of parliament or just write to your MP if you want to.

Daily mail is just in the business of selling papers and doing whatever it takes to get eyeballs on their papers, evidently just to keep the advertisers happy which they unethically plug via paid advertorials.

Also, the whole stance is disgusting. "NHS chasing after cancer patients with extortionate fines" or words to that effect.

1. tickets are issued and handled by a third party PPC [AFAIK]
2. they will target whoever violates the parking terms without discrimination. whether they're billionaires or cancer patients on the doll.
3. well the amount is debatable. I have had a look at the financial affairs of PPCs and they're not all that profitable. They have a lot of costs. They have to recover ther costs somehow.