Parking stories in the News/media

DE_612183

Nellymoser said:

@DE_612183 You say you've "seen loads of people do this" 
Did you actually follow these "loads of people" on their walk after you observed them key in their VRM then immediately leave the pub?

Difficult to see a customer doing this are you employed by the pub or the PPC to carry out this observational and following people activity?

The key pad is by the entrance door - from where we usually sit you can see people come in and walk back out again, I guess they could go for their walk and then come and have a pint - but there is a tourist attraction about 5 mins away that changes £5.00 per car, so I did assume they went there, of course I could be totally wrong -  you obviously know better than me.

No I don't work for the pub or the PPC.

Umkomaas

VCS and Bristol Airport 'stopping' charges stunt covered by The Guardian. Nothing unusual in the report, but national coverage does the cause no harm. VCS and Bristol Airport seem very much joined at the hip. 

https://www.theguardian.com/money/article/2024/aug/10/airport-parking-charge-passengers

KeithP

Umkomaas said:

VCS and Bristol Airport 'stopping' charges stunt covered by The Guardian. Nothing unusual in the report, but national coverage does the cause no harm. VCS and Bristol Airport seem very much joined at the hip. 

https://www.theguardian.com/money/article/2024/aug/10/airport-parking-charge-passengers

Looks like that article was prompted by one of our forum members @Drivad...
forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/80930557/#Comment_80930557

And MSE forum gets a mention in the article too.

Nellymoser

Southeastern postpone changes to parking system across Kent railway stations

“We have been reviewing customer feedback and it is clear the decision has caused some concern."

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/amp/changes-to-station-parking-postponed-after-passenger-backlas-311450/

Coupon-mad

Trying to foist 'app payments only' on the public is potentially illegal and certainly against the will of Parliament.

It's astonishing that nobody properly considered the needs of the diverse group that is rail users. Southeastern: engage your brains and stop being so easily impressed by a parking firm's spiel about what they spin as amazing technology.

How is it that no landowners smell a rat when offered parking management 'free of charge'?

patient_dream

Motorists hit with £5billion in fines since failed crackdown on 'cowboy' car park sharks... 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13753435/Motorists-fines-failed-crackdown-cowboy-car-park-sharks.html

Nellymoser

SHOCKING. A response from MHCLG is needed to that report but please please don't let it include the Conservative brush off "in due course" words.

If I wanted more of the same I'd have voted Conservative I voted Labour for 'Change'.

Hope I don't regret it.

Umkomaas

Will any Labour Government jump to the beat of the DM?  Hopefully The Mirror/Guardian will run with the story in parallel. 

1505grandad

But surely everything is hunky-dory(sick) because the DVLA state to the ICO (16/11/23):-

https://ico.org.uk/media/action-weve-taken/decision-notices/2023/4027469/ic-255825-q6g3.pdf

"13. The DVLA conducts audits of parking operators to obtain assurance that

sufficient evidence of a parking contravention exists to justify the lawful

release of vehicle keeper information, and that the information is used

only for the purpose it was disclosed for."

"14

. It holds regular meetings to discuss complaints received about the behaviour of private parking

operators...…."

I can't get my head round the fact that we have ONE Government dept./MP's using all sorts of derogatory terms describing the misery caused by ppc's to motorists and trying to regulate the industry but at the same time TWO depts. of the same Government are given "nuclear buttons" to inflict this misery instantly.

patient_dream

Nellymoser said:

SHOCKING. A response from MHCLG is needed to that report but please please don't let it include the Conservative brush off "in due course" words.

If I wanted more of the same I'd have voted Conservative I voted Labour for 'Change'.

Hope I don't regret it.

The STARMER / RAYNER double act need to get their act together to stop this countrywide scam qickly

They have already proven they can  act quickly with the medics and unions.

It's been 5 years with the Tories letting people be scammed every day

Will Labour prolong this soryy state of affairs any longer... Are they MICE OR LIONS ??