Open Letter to BPA and Car Park Operators:

Kite2010

Dr._Shoe wrote: »

...or little old ladies who overstay by 41 seconds but are easily intimidated by threats of court action etc...

or little old ladies who input the wrong registration number into a machine by mistake and get hounded for making that mistake with the threat of court action etc.

Ryan_Bryan

Or honest people who are scammed and bullied into thinking they have done something wrong.

peter_the_piper

hoohoo wrote: »

The parking companies have already achieved these efficiencies. It costs an average of £10 for initial processing and £10 for follow-up processing. The rest of the £80 is profit.

Good luck with getting them to give up the £80 profit!

But I though they were there to manage the car park and not make a profit.

Where's the sarki smilie when you want one.

HO87

Thank you Hurtlocker for demonstrating yet again that the one-size fits all approach peddled by PPC's and their so-called representative bodies is not the only solution to the Carmegeddon they insist will ensue if their parasitic practices were done away with.

There are many examples of car parks once infested with PPC's that have never ground to halt, choked by the ignorant and selfish motorist of whom there must be hundreds of thousands, nay millions, it would seem. Of course were common sense solutions employed they'd represent one-time sales and the market would soon be saturated. Keep doggedly to the PCN method and you set up a treadmill operation which keeps on giving - profits that is.

Sadly, the size of those profits currently being enjoyed will absolutely ensure that the likelihood of any PPC "seeing the light" and adopting your sensible suggestion is somewhere between nil and zero. The more so their apologists whose sole reason for existence (in their current form) is that self-same profit.

enfield_freddy

peter_the_piper wrote: »

But I though they were there to manage the car park and not make a profit.

Where's the sarki smilie when you want one.

the next time you use a car park that is ANPR controlled , and (as registered disabled) cannot park in a disabled bay , because of non disabled cars being there , issue a county claim for costs , due to mis management!


"IF" they were managed properly , by using staff on foot , this problem would not arise




sarki smile mode on.

Kite2010

enfield_freddy wrote: »

the next time you use a car park that is ANPR controlled , and (as registered disabled) cannot park in a disabled bay , because of non disabled cars being there , issue a county claim for costs , due to mis management!


"IF" they were managed properly , by using staff on foot , this problem would not arise




sarki smile mode on.

Agreed, CCTV cameras on sticks monitoring comings and goings of the car-park is not car park management, for all the camera knows you can spend 20 minutes doing doughnuts in the car-park, or doing drag racing. As long as you leave before the time is up the camera doesn't know any different.

In an ideal world car park management won't raise any sort of revenue as it will be managed, if out of town retail parks are worried about commuters parking up all day long then fit barriers with a pay-on-exit system (or a system where if you spend £x+ in one store you can get parking validated)