Parking stories in the News/media

bargepole

Coupon-mad said:

Morrisons and Euro Car Parks named and shamed for allowing the ANPR exit camera 'enforcing' a 2 hour parking limit at High Wycombe to be placed AFTER the petrol station and the busy car wash queue:

https://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/23480065.customer-slams-high-wycombe-morrisons-car-park-fine/

Clever scam...no other word for it, ECP.

I know this location very well.

As you drive in, you pass the fuel station on the right, one of the cheapest in the area, and with queues to fill up at busy times.

Then you go round a bend, and  come to the main supermarket and car park, with bays on the far side reserved for the car wash. which can also have long queues. 

The popular in-store cafe is understaffed, and you can wait up to 30 minutes for them to bring your order at busy times. The store itself is a large version, and there is usually another queue for the self-service checkouts.

So, anyone who is shopping, eating, getting their car washed, and filling up, is very likely to spend over 2 hours between entry and exit. The problem is, that it's close enough to the town centre for people to park there and walk, and I've seen people do that. But those people can park, spend an hour or so in town, and return without breaching to 2 hour limit.

So the system is unfit for purpose, because it fails to target the 'abusers', while penalising genuine customers.

Umkomaas

The popular in-store cafe is understaffed, and you can wait up to 30 minutes for them to bring your order at busy times. The store itself is a large version, and there is usually another queue for the self-service checkouts.

On that front, Mrs U and I have used the M's greasy spoon cafe, in two different locations, a number of times, and I can honestly say, that on most occasions they have got our order wrong or badly prepared. You only have to look at the vacated tables and the discarded, half-eaten, food to see that we are not the only ones to have experienced that misfortune.   

Fruitcake

It's a shame Mr Hetherington keeps using the F and P word, (except when it is actually used by the PPC themselves) and doesn't tell people what to do if they get a PCN.


Proof that car parks are a licence to print money. 

West Pentire £60 fine proves car parks are licence to print money and UK Car Park Management is coining it in: TONY HETHERINGTON investigates (msn.com)


Disabled motorist threatened with criminal charges in the Magistrate's Court, APCOA and ZZPS.

TONY HETHERINGTON: £155 parking fine is the real crime! | This is Money



Kilve Beach, lack of mobile 'phone signal.

Premier Park payment problems anger Kilve beach visitors: TONY HETHERINGTON investigates | This is Money

Umkomaas

Disabled motorist threatened with criminal charges in the Magistrate's Court, APCOA and ZZPS.

TONY HETHERINGTON: £155 parking fine is the real crime! | This is Money

What an arrogant response from Osner. 

patient_dream

Umkomaas said:

Disabled motorist threatened with criminal charges in the Magistrate's Court, APCOA and ZZPS.

TONY HETHERINGTON: £155 parking fine is the real crime! | This is Money

What an arrogant response from Osner. 

And this was the start of the BPA's downfall into shame, listening to OSNER WHICH SPREAD LIKE A VIRUS to the IPC

Jenni_D

At least the article clearly "outs" Osner's shameful add-on scam.

B789

UKCPM in the spotlight. Unfortunately the victims paid thus funding the scammers:

This £60 West Pentire fine proves car parks are licence to print money... and UK Car Park Management is coining it in

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/experts/article-12079895/TONY-HETHERINGTON-Fine-proves-car-parks-licence-print-money.html

Snakes_Belly

4justice2 said:

This report from the Express and Star (Wolverhampton) overuses the word "fine" and "fined" just a tad.....

https://www.expressandstar.com/news/business/2023/04/28/community-outraged-after-pub-car-park-operators-fines-drivers-for-turning-round/#viafoura-comments-container

Car park looks empty. Do these pub owners really want to drive away their customers?

1505grandad

No doubt the BPA will be telling the pub landowner what to say:-

https://portfolio.cpl.co.uk/Parking-News/429/44/

"Delay to Code

consultation

 ............                     To support 

discussions with your landowner clients,

and encourage them to feed into the

consultation process, we have prepared a

presentation for you to tailor and share"

Coupon-mad

This hapless victim at Durham City Retail Park forgot how to Google, didn't do the flipping obvious and complain to the retail park or kitchen store, and instead just did a futile 'appeal' then rolled over and paid Ocean Parking:

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/durham-parking-fine-overstay-car-26902695.amp

The good news is at the end but not for this paying victim, who did it all wrong:

"Ocean Parking no longer operates the Durham City Retail Park site and the site's managing agents did not want to comment."

Methinks the retail park had sussed what typical ANPR 'PCN machine' scam operations do to on-site businesses by shafting their customers, and would have cancelled that PCN, had the guy complained at the time!