Pay and display car parking whinge.

[waynne]

Having just cleaned out my car I counted 125 pay and display tickets in my car when I cleaned it out. That is an aggregate cost approaching £250 - and you thought fuel pricing was bad enough.

Don't I pay enough fuel tax, road tax and car related VAT costs to get free parking?

If car parks used barriers with number plate recognition and card payments on exit there would be.

1) No litter
2) No overstay fines*
3) More trees due to the paper saving.
4) Less administrative costs to the car park authority.

I think reason 2 is why most car parks use a pay and display method. *I got a £40 fine for a 15 minute overstay in a car park!

[Shao]

Unfortunately wayne the motorist is a cash cow that the government and councils readily seize upon, we know pay and display is an antwac system, we know speed cameras in majority of places are not for safety issues.

[Prince]

That's a lot of rubbish to have in your car...I think I have one display ticket in my car from the last time I went Milton Keynes. How much do we all pay for parking though? In Northampton town centre I pay 60p per hour!

[pgarner]

i prefer not to use it as its a rip off there is plenty of parking disc schemes around here that allow you up to 2 hours

think the pay and display in dumfries is £1 for the 1st hour then i think its about 60p an hour from then

[waynne]

Parking down here is 70p for 1 hour £1 for 2 hours which isn't too bad. In Canterbury it can be double this

You have an 80% plus chance of getting a parking ticket here though. Parking enforcement is worse than London.