There'd be an even easier way to end it - everyone parks safely and legally for a few months and they'd stop being profitable. These companies exist simply because people park badly and without consideration for others or the rules.
I don't believe that is true.
Personally I have not had a problem with any of these parking companies (touch wood!) but one reads of many people who do and when one reads in to the reasons why they have been penalised it appears so petty.
One issue which seems to have come to the fore in recent years is the mistyping of a registration numbers on some of the new pay and display machines. Sometimes, the buttons don't always work properly or the user mistypes one letter or number and despite paying have still received a penalty charge.
it is as though the operators are just trying to find ways to catch people out and profiteering from it.
How on earth does it spread the cost fairly, only you are using the land you are parked on, why shouldn’t you pay for that?
It does. Everyone pays something to maintain the car parking spaces.
However, one does question why the Severn Valley now find it necessary to charge £4 day when the South Devon Railway do not charge.
As I said later in my thread we could reward those who chose to access a heritage line by public transport by giving them a discount.
Thus the car will pay the standard fare which would include the cost of the car parking - but it would not appear that they were being charged for car parking.
it is all about being subtle.