Parking stories in the News/media

Kaizen2024

Nellymoser said:

Your industry really does have some utterly stupid ideas for managing parking. What's the point of a drive thru if you have to park in the car park first and go inside to register your vehicle. While inside you're as well ordering your meal when you’re there. The drive thru line will become empty and car park spaces full from people ordering and collecting inside.

Like I said, maybe the intention is that those who use the drive through should do just that and not use the car park (as space will be limited); hence the restriction I.e drive through and leave the site.

Castle

Nellymoser said:

Your industry really does have some utterly stupid ideas for managing parking. What's the point of a drive thru if you have to park in the car park first and go inside to register your vehicle. While inside you're as well ordering your meal when your there. The drive thru line will become empty and car park spaces full from people ordering and collecting inside.

Or park in the drive-thru lane.

LoneStarState

Kaizen2024 said:

Like I said, maybe the intention is that those who use the drive through should do just that and not use the car park (as space will be limited); hence the restriction I.e drive through and leave the site.

Pointless speculation really isn't it, seeing as nowhere in this saga has it been stated drive thru customers are not to use the car park.  Very odd to try and grasp at such speculative straws.

Or maybe the intention is to capitalise on a known flaw in this "parking management" system.  I guess if not having drive thru customers in the car park is the intention, maybe some really BIG and CLEAR signs would be useful stating that, business might take a hit for Starbucks though.  Oh Oh I know, in a more normal world maybe an ANPR camera on the drive thru could pre register cars on behalf of drive thru customers?  PCN revenue would of course dip so I guess that's a non starter.  Management is the aim after all.

Not_A_Hope

Like I said, maybe the intention is that those who use the drive through should do just that and not use the car park (as space will be limited); hence the restriction I.e drive through and leave the site.

Not that I use them but to keep the drive through queue moving customers are often directed by staff to park up in a numbered bay and their order will be brought out to them as soon as it is ready. Once again you are trying to find excuses for the parking industry’s often shocking greedy behaviour and trying to dress it up as car park management.

Gr1pr

Not_A_Hope said:

Like I said, maybe the intention is that those who use the drive through should do just that and not use the car park (as space will be limited); hence the restriction I.e drive through and leave the site.

Not that I use them but to keep the drive through queue moving customers are often directed by staff to park up in a numbered bay and their order will be brought out to them as soon as it is ready. Once again you are trying to find excuses for the parking industry’s often shocking greedy behaviour and trying to dress it up as car park management.

That has happened to me on more than one occasion,  presuming that there was a delay in fulfilling my order and they didn't want the one way drive through blocked with me waiting 

Not only that,  the end of the drive thru is via the car park itself 

Coupon-mad

Kaizen2024 said:

Nellymoser said:

Your industry really does have some utterly stupid ideas for managing parking. What's the point of a drive thru if you have to park in the car park first and go inside to register your vehicle. While inside you're as well ordering your meal when you’re there. The drive thru line will become empty and car park spaces full from people ordering and collecting inside.

Like I said, maybe the intention is that those who use the drive through should do just that and not use the car park (as space will be limited); hence the restriction I.e drive through and leave the site.

Don't you think it's time your rogue industry got real? The consumer blame culture is astonishing. It's like you're all living in the last century.

To badly plagiarise the Supreme Court in Beavis:

All that was needed is a keypad (at the drive through). Or an exempting camera.

Either would do.

Kaizen2024

Or… all the driver needed to do was ‘drive through’

ChirpyChicken

Coupon-mad said:

Kaizen2024 said:

Nellymoser said:

Your industry really does have some utterly stupid ideas for managing parking. What's the point of a drive thru if you have to park in the car park first and go inside to register your vehicle. While inside you're as well ordering your meal when you’re there. The drive thru line will become empty and car park spaces full from people ordering and collecting inside.

Like I said, maybe the intention is that those who use the drive through should do just that and not use the car park (as space will be limited); hence the restriction I.e drive through and leave the site.

Don't you think it's time your rogue industry got real? The consumer blame culture is astonishing. It's like you're all living in the last century.

To badly plagiarise the Supreme Court in Beavis:

All that was needed is a keypad (at the drive through). Or an exempting camera.

Either would do.

The parking industry has always blamed the motorist. Its never their fault.

Nellymoser

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/residents-threaten-sue-scottish-council-040000234.html

Residents and business owners threaten to sue Edinburgh Council over controversial parking plans which they claim are “potentially unlawful". They argue that the council proposal lacks public support, is built on unreliable data, and would inflict lasting damage on the local economy.

“We’ve worked hard to bring life back to the High Street with independent shops, cafés, and services, and now the council wants to sabotage that progress. If these businesses start closing down, it’s not just livelihoods that are at stake – it’s access to essential amenities for local people.

“We've seen the damage these schemes have done in places like Leith. Why is the council determined to repeat the same mistakes here?”

Coupon-mad

Kaizen2024 said:

Or… all the driver needed to do was ‘drive through’

But how on earth would they know the terms and why shouldn't they be offered the keypad made available to other customers?

There are no signs at drive-thrus.

There are also (very often) no signs in accessible bay areas at retail parks.

It's almost like the industry positively target more vulnerable people (or those at drive-thrus, who the PPC knows will not see a sign or get out of the vehicle).

Defending this scammery would make me embarrassed. No wonder whatshisname (one of the solicitors) has left Moorside Legal so quickly.

And no wonder Jackson Yamba moved to the good side.

Intelligent people. They must have hated every minute.