Or they could support town centres by scrapping charges instead?
Obscure-Oracle on
A good move, just a shame it’s too expensive and I go elsewhere with free parking instead. Being a tourist area we get screwed with high parking charges due to people flooding to the area for several weeks a year. I used to dodge it by taking advantage of the free motorcycle parking but now that’s been stopped and now I get charged the same as a car just to park in a designated area of the car park that wouldn’t even be suitable for cars anyway. And they wonder why the town center is dying off, they should at least offer discounts for residents of the local area.
TremendousCustard on
SALISBURY. The main car park has no phone signal, but no option to pay with coins or contactless on the machine.
When you call them, it links the mobile phone number to whatever car you parked with when you last visit and doesn’t confirm the number plate with you. Apparently updating a shit parking app for a place you might visit maybe once a year is a critical piece of life admin they require you to do if you’ve changed vehicle.
Piss take.
Exxtraa on
Was saying this to someone recently funnily enough, how we have like 6 different parking apps on my phone. Can’t they just pick one and stick with it. Mental.
vrekais on
Is the app provider a publicly owned nationalized company? Just curious what stops a private company councils are forced to use from charging more and more for the services they provide.
AvadaBalaclava on
Recently went to Carpark what was ANPR pay on exit, both machines broken but there was an app, so much information it was crazy. At first I thought about just risking it, because it doesn’t seem right that they should force you to pay via app when you find the machines broken at the end, but in the end I jumped through all the hoops as paying £1.50 was worth not worrying about even if it did take me 5 minutes to go through downloading, registering and paying for my parking
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[Chris spargo did a video on this](https://youtu.be/JJXEmkTtuUU?si=KyDJzOC-z0PvVjL_)
It’s really good news for everyone to be honest.
Or they could support town centres by scrapping charges instead?
A good move, just a shame it’s too expensive and I go elsewhere with free parking instead. Being a tourist area we get screwed with high parking charges due to people flooding to the area for several weeks a year. I used to dodge it by taking advantage of the free motorcycle parking but now that’s been stopped and now I get charged the same as a car just to park in a designated area of the car park that wouldn’t even be suitable for cars anyway. And they wonder why the town center is dying off, they should at least offer discounts for residents of the local area.
SALISBURY. The main car park has no phone signal, but no option to pay with coins or contactless on the machine.
When you call them, it links the mobile phone number to whatever car you parked with when you last visit and doesn’t confirm the number plate with you. Apparently updating a shit parking app for a place you might visit maybe once a year is a critical piece of life admin they require you to do if you’ve changed vehicle.
Piss take.
Was saying this to someone recently funnily enough, how we have like 6 different parking apps on my phone. Can’t they just pick one and stick with it. Mental.
Is the app provider a publicly owned nationalized company? Just curious what stops a private company councils are forced to use from charging more and more for the services they provide.
Recently went to Carpark what was ANPR pay on exit, both machines broken but there was an app, so much information it was crazy. At first I thought about just risking it, because it doesn’t seem right that they should force you to pay via app when you find the machines broken at the end, but in the end I jumped through all the hoops as paying £1.50 was worth not worrying about even if it did take me 5 minutes to go through downloading, registering and paying for my parking