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Juliand:
Parking charges seem to have got so expensive now!

I've been mulling over whether it's worth rebelling and taking a risk and parking up on a side street, single yellow line, or just not paying in the car parks, ha ha :fighting: No where really busy, like main towns, but places that you just want to pop to for a few hours. Most on road parking is now patrolled by councils, and with limited staffing resources they surely can't patrol every street or car park every hour of every day. Most fines seem to be around £25 or £35, from a quick search, so if you can get away with it for four or five times it might be worth a go, compared with £5/6 for a few hours parking. Overall it might not work out, but tempting to be a bit rebellious in my senior years.

I'm on the southcoast  and just parking up for a few hours to go to the beach, or nature spots costs over a fiver for up to 4 hours.

I'm not advocating parking anywhere dangerous, but some of these parking restrictions just seem unnecessary, to force people on to the revenue generating car parks.

Have I lost the plot, or has this occurred to anyone else? :wink:

Nodz:
That's not that bad, Southend usually works out to just under a pound an hour and towns near by are usually around a pound for between 2-3hours. But your are right they are slowly creeping up.

Last week I paid £4.90 and hour in central london and that was parking on the road, the NCP's want obscene amounts. Same as tomorrow I've got to pay £7.90 for all day in a train station car park as I'm parking before 10am.

Great thing about parking in London and other places on a Sunday are that single yellow lines are not enforced or after 18:30, just got to check the times with single yellows

LondonGT:
You take your chances!

In London we have cameras to get you for this (i stopped so someone could jump out a tiny bit in a bus stop, cost £80), back wheels in a box junction because the van in front decided to leave twenty feet in front, £80.

If you get caught with no permit or on a yellow, £80. Sadly they have patrols on mopeds as they make so much cash out of it i have no chance.

Good luck, just don't park like an arse

garrardrj:
Just get some cloned plates of a few cars the same as yours  :grin:

MC71:
I parked in a NCP car park in Brighton the other day.....£19 for 4 hrs IIRC. If I wanted to get f*cked in Brighton, there are cheaper ways to do it!!

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