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Getting on my high hose again.
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ZZzzz | Report | 15 Jun 2021 13:50 |
Our local council own some car parks and their ticket machines don't give change, is that right? Surely it is fraud! At one such place someone was going to get some change and upon return had a parking ticket on the windscreen. |
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Maddie | Report | 15 Jun 2021 13:57 |
thats called making money |
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Sharron | Report | 15 Jun 2021 14:21 |
That's called, do your shopping in another district. |
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nameslessone | Report | 15 Jun 2021 14:22 |
Sexism. |
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nameslessone | Report | 15 Jun 2021 14:47 |
Not much help if you don’t have a smart phone. |
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ZZzzz | Report | 15 Jun 2021 15:00 |
Exactly nameslessone. |
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nameslessone | Report | 15 Jun 2021 15:07 |
I usually keep a few coins in my car for parking. But since COVID the town centre multistories only seem to take cards. |
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nameslessone | Report | 15 Jun 2021 15:43 |
The method of payment does not make the use of car parks any safer. You still have to traipse through a potentially badly lit and insecure car park to get too and from your car. |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 15 Jun 2021 15:49 |
P & R also saves the centre becoming polluted - and is often the cheapest place to park. It's also one payment for the day. |
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ZZzzz | Report | 15 Jun 2021 15:54 |
But is it fraud???? |
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nameslessone | Report | 15 Jun 2021 16:05 |
ZZzz I think Maddie had the answer. |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 15 Jun 2021 16:07 |
I suppose they could claim it says on their website that no change is given. |
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nameslessone | Report | 15 Jun 2021 16:42 |
Going back to the original question I think the 'no change' machine have been around a long time. |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 15 Jun 2021 16:59 |
Can't get change on buses in most areas now. |
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PatinCyprus | Report | 15 Jun 2021 17:05 |
Where my sister lives the buses have been no change given for years for security reasons. |
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grannyfranny | Report | 15 Jun 2021 17:10 |
I quite like the 'tap and go' type of payment, I've used it on car parks and trams. You can use it on buses too, if you don't have a bus pass to tap and go. |
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nameslessone | Report | 15 Jun 2021 17:40 |
I didn’t mean the food shopping as I shop more locally.. But a new pair of shoes, a new suit and other odds and ends could be bulky and heavy. |
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Annx | Report | 15 Jun 2021 17:52 |
P&R doesn't cut down pollution, it moves it to the county for us and adds to congestion around an M1junction. People travel further to get here than they would to the city, so more pollution and traffic on the road but in a different place. Here if you go into the P&R but change your mind you have to pay the charge to get out again. That was £10 when it first opened, not sure what it costs now. Few stops in the city means carrying all your shopping everywhere. No wonder people don't use it to the extent that the council have let spaces to local businesses for parking. |
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nameslessone | Report | 15 Jun 2021 17:57 |
Our main hospital changed to on exit paying a few years ago but I like the idea of claiming back unused time on a pay before system - I had never heard of that. Maybe I was just lucky not to need to. |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 15 Jun 2021 19:04 |
RTR, St Peter's will charge up to £15 to park there, which is okay if you don't mind throwing money away, and it's a fair walk to the shops, for those who don't like lugging heavy shopping. |
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