Not sure if this fits in this part of the forum, but hear me out.
My local station has until now had a free car park. GA have spent months and lots of money making it larger and putting a proper surface on it (previously it was roughly surfaced and still had the remains of the goods yard poking out at various places.
It's now £3 per day, which is fine. The signs advising of the fees say to "pay at the pay and display machine and display ticket". But no such machine has been installed yet.
The place is plastered with signs advertising how to pay by phone or online. I detest these "services" and never use them.
We all know that if there is no means to buy your rail ticket using cash at the station, you can board the train and buy at the earliest opportunity.
Is there a similar rule for car park ticketing? I want to pay and display, not faff around with a poorly designed website or phone system and give reams of my personal data away to "create an account".
I'm not sure if it's officially opened yet, but there are people parked there.
Given the primary method stated is to pay and display (in fact it's the only option on the standard GA sign), what happens if someone gets a parking charge and appeals saying "but there was no payment machine available"?
My local station has until now had a free car park. GA have spent months and lots of money making it larger and putting a proper surface on it (previously it was roughly surfaced and still had the remains of the goods yard poking out at various places.
It's now £3 per day, which is fine. The signs advising of the fees say to "pay at the pay and display machine and display ticket". But no such machine has been installed yet.
The place is plastered with signs advertising how to pay by phone or online. I detest these "services" and never use them.
We all know that if there is no means to buy your rail ticket using cash at the station, you can board the train and buy at the earliest opportunity.
Is there a similar rule for car park ticketing? I want to pay and display, not faff around with a poorly designed website or phone system and give reams of my personal data away to "create an account".
I'm not sure if it's officially opened yet, but there are people parked there.
Given the primary method stated is to pay and display (in fact it's the only option on the standard GA sign), what happens if someone gets a parking charge and appeals saying "but there was no payment machine available"?
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