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Erick Andrews
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| Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 8:09 am
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Just curious, are the 'pay and display' schemes still used in UK
carparks?
It's been a long time for me (States-side, now) but I remember
some blokes who would stick a few dozen on their cars to try
to cheat the system. The 'theory' was, Rita-the-meter-maid would
give up looking for the current sticker: it might take her longer
to find it before one returned to drive off.
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Erick Andrews
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David
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| Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 11:13 am
Post subject: Re: Pay and Display |
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In article <sGi8lzkop2Rq-pn2-UdndV2qJJERS@HAL9000>,
Erick Andrews <eandrews@bogusstar.net> wrote:
| Quote: | Just curious, are the 'pay and display' schemes still used in UK
carparks?
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Yes; and it really is irksome to have to fork out an entire 20p just to
go shopping at the market!
| Quote: | It's been a long time for me (States-side, now) but I remember
some blokes who would stick a few dozen on their cars to try
to cheat the system. The 'theory' was, Rita-the-meter-maid would
give up looking for the current sticker: it might take her longer
to find it before one returned to drive off.
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Never seen that. It does warm the cockles of one's heart, though, that
tickets with time left on are regularly passed from leaving to arriving.
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Paul Burke
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| Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 3:59 pm
Post subject: Re: Pay and Display |
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Erick Andrews wrote:
| Quote: | Just curious, are the 'pay and display' schemes still used in UK
carparks?
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Very much so. Though you've got to make sure everyone you display to is
over 16.
| Quote: | It's been a long time for me (States-side, now) but I remember
some blokes who would stick a few dozen on their cars to try
to cheat the system. The 'theory' was, Rita-the-meter-maid would
give up looking for the current sticker: it might take her longer
to find it before one returned to drive off.
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Look, you can get a ticket just for displaying the sticker on the wrong
window or upside-down, or for parking skewed in the bay. Rita, if she's
working for a private security firm paid by results, will slap it on and
leave it to you to appeal.
Paul Burke
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David
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| Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 6:33 pm
Post subject: Re: Pay and Display |
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In article <Pine.LNX.4.61.0503181218220.29591@frank.dcs.qmul.ac.uk>,
Matthew Huntbach <mmh@dcs.qmul.ac.uk> wrote:
| Quote: | On Fri, 18 Mar 2005, David wrote:
In article <sGi8lzkop2Rq-pn2-UdndV2qJJERS@HAL9000>, Erick Andrews
eandrews@bogusstar.net> wrote:
Just curious, are the 'pay and display' schemes still used in UK
carparks?
Yes; and it really is irksome to have to fork out an entire 20p
just to go shopping at the market!
Only if you insist in bringing your car.
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Why else would you be using whatever paying system in the car park?
| Quote: | Are there still places where
20p is the minimum?
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Yes, of course. Did you not believe me? If ever you're in GOC on
Tuesday, Friday or Saturday, look in on South Elmsall market.
(It's also 20p to have a pee, just for the record.)
| Quote: | In London I don't know of anywhere with a minimum
of less than 50p, and in many places it's more than that.
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Well, there are probably some advantages to living in London, not that
I can think of any.
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Matthew Huntbach
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| Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 7:22 pm
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On Fri, 18 Mar 2005, David wrote:
| Quote: | In article <sGi8lzkop2Rq-pn2-UdndV2qJJERS@HAL9000>,
Erick Andrews <eandrews@bogusstar.net> wrote:
Just curious, are the 'pay and display' schemes still used in UK
carparks?
Yes; and it really is irksome to have to fork out an entire 20p just to
go shopping at the market!
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Only if you insist in bringing your car. Are there still places where
20p is the minimum? In London I don't know of anywhere with a
minimum of less than 50p, and in many places it's more than that.
In answer to the original question, pay-and-display seems to be the
most widely used scheme. The alternative is a scheme where you collect
a ticket on entrance, and pay to use it to gain exit with the amount
dependent on the time since entry. This is more complex technically,
since it requires an automatic gate which opens on a paid-for ticket,
so is used only in bigger car parks.
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Phil C.
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| Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 7:22 pm
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On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 09:13:26 +0000 (GMT), David
<david@dacha.freeuk.com> wrote:
| Quote: | In article <sGi8lzkop2Rq-pn2-UdndV2qJJERS@HAL9000>,
Erick Andrews <eandrews@bogusstar.net> wrote:
Just curious, are the 'pay and display' schemes still used in UK
carparks?
Yes; and it really is irksome to have to fork out an entire 20p just to
go shopping at the market!
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I hate the customised automated parking systems used by some car parks
which involve getting a ticket from somewhere in the shopping centre
(or something). They must be a nightmare for people who don't speak
English - and for those stuck behind them at the exit barrier.
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David
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| Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 1:02 am
Post subject: Re: Pay and Display |
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In article <slrnd3mane.5ge.david@pepper.local.lan>, David Marsh
<david@bogus.domain.invalid> wrote:
| Quote: | David wrote in uk.culture.language.english about: Re: Pay and
Display
In article <sGi8lzkop2Rq-pn2-UdndV2qJJERS@HAL9000>, Erick Andrews
eandrews@bogusstar.net> wrote:
Just curious, are the 'pay and display' schemes still used in UK
carparks?
Yes; and it really is irksome to have to fork out an entire 20p
just to go shopping at the market!
As cheap as that for the dubious privilege of adding to air pollution
and encouraging the tarmaccing of our towns and countryside?
Seems too cheap by far, to me..
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Aye. Perhaps I should use the bus that travels directly over the fields.
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David Marsh
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| Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 2:24 am
Post subject: Re: Pay and Display |
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David wrote in uk.culture.language.english
about: Re: Pay and Display
| Quote: | In article <sGi8lzkop2Rq-pn2-UdndV2qJJERS@HAL9000>,
Erick Andrews <eandrews@bogusstar.net> wrote:
Just curious, are the 'pay and display' schemes still used in UK
carparks?
Yes; and it really is irksome to have to fork out an entire 20p just to
go shopping at the market!
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As cheap as that for the dubious privilege of adding to air pollution
and encouraging the tarmaccing of our towns and countryside?
Seems too cheap by far, to me..
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David
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| Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 7:45 pm
Post subject: Re: Pay and Display |
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In article <slrnd3odlr.97t.david@pepper.local.lan>, David Marsh
<david@bogus.domain.invalid> wrote:
| Quote: | David wrote in uk.culture.language.english about: Re: Pay and
Display
Aye. Perhaps I should use the bus that travels directly over the
fields.
Wow, they have one of these where you live? ;-D
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catbus
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Don't think my dogs'd like it.
| Quote: | The point being, if you choose to live somewhere with inadequate
public transport (or live elsewhere but choose not to use it), you
should expect to have to pay for the consequences of that decision.
On the relatively rare occasions anybody *needs* to use a car, 20p's
a pretty small price to pay..
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I agree, 20 pence is nothing; it's just the hassle of having to toddle
off to the other side of the car park for "nothing", come back again,
then go again to shop.
Public transport is rarely adequate if you're buying 20-inch wide plant
pots or bags of compost; nor does public transport want to know you if
you're bringing your dogs back from their daily romp in the woods on a
wet day in winter.
| Quote: | If more people used public transport, we wouldn't need to keep
building bigger and wider roads everywhere..
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Aren't those for the consumer goods being stored in transit?
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David Marsh
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| Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 9:27 pm
Post subject: Re: Pay and Display |
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David wrote in uk.culture.language.english
about: Re: Pay and Display
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Yes; and it really is irksome to have to fork out an entire 20p
just to go shopping at the market!
As cheap as that for the dubious privilege of adding to air pollution
and encouraging the tarmaccing of our towns and countryside?
Seems too cheap by far, to me..
Aye. Perhaps I should use the bus that travels directly over the fields.
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Wow, they have one of these where you live? ;-D
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catbus
The point being, if you choose to live somewhere with inadequate public
transport (or live elsewhere but choose not to use it), you should expect
to have to pay for the consequences of that decision. On the relatively
rare occasions anybody *needs* to use a car, 20p's a pretty small price
to pay..
If more people used public transport, we wouldn't need to keep building
bigger and wider roads everywhere..
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David Marsh, <reply-to-email is valid at time of writing> |
Edinburgh, Scotland. [en, fr, (de)] | http://www.viewport.co.uk/ |
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Brian {Hamilton Kelly}
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| Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 11:42 pm
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On Friday, in article <4d4d7e3d53david@dacha.freeuk.com>
david@dacha.freeuk.com "David" wrote:
| Quote: | In article <sGi8lzkop2Rq-pn2-UdndV2qJJERS@HAL9000>,
Erick Andrews <eandrews@bogusstar.net> wrote:
It's been a long time for me (States-side, now) but I remember
some blokes who would stick a few dozen on their cars to try
to cheat the system. The 'theory' was, Rita-the-meter-maid would
give up looking for the current sticker: it might take her longer
to find it before one returned to drive off.
Never seen that. It does warm the cockles of one's heart, though, that
tickets with time left on are regularly passed from leaving to arriving.
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Moreover, since most car-parking-authority owners require that the ticket
be displayed on the windscreen (and fully visible, and readily legible;
i.e. NOT upside-down, as already alluded to) then having multiple expired
tickets adhering to the inside of the screen would fall foul of the *law*
that requires there be no obstructions to the view of the driver through
the windscreen.
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Brian {Hamilton Kelly} bhk@dsl.co.uk
"Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu
le loisir de la faire plus courte."
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