The _Don
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I often hand over tickets and tell them there's an hour left when in fact they have expired.![]()
True. There's something very cockle-warming in giving a ticket to someone else.
That would work so long as they can't rad the small print.
That's what I was trying to say, but you've put it more eloquently.You see here is my point..
If I buy a ticket for an hour, I feel what I have bought is the right to retain that piece of ground (paid for by me )for that hour.
So.
If I am say, ten minutes over the hour? then the Council (or the owners) have the right to fine me for my overstay. I hate it, but I have to accept that it is common sense and possibly legal.
However. If I under use my allocated hour by ten minutes? I should be able to claim back a credit for use against future parking, or to be credited against any future penalties incurred for overstaying my time limit.
By not allowing this penalty/credit regime (risk & reward) I believe that Councils are acting unfairly (no surprise here then).
Oh and yes, I would happily hand over my remaining minutes on my piece of land to another person, as I believe it is my purchase to dispose of how I chose.
I suppose they just got fed up with everybody using the gold coins that the streets are paved with . Dear old Londinium is now just old and dear!Westminster did away with pay-and-diplay machines and cash-collecting meters some years ago. They replaced them with the infernal "pay-by-phone" system, which means you have to pay for a call (or text) on top of your actual parking charge. For occasional visitors to the borough it must be an enormously frustrating process, having to type in the ID of the bay, the car's registration number, your payment card details, etc. And of course, there's no way of passing unused time to someone else.
Westminster did away with pay-and-diplay machines and cash-collecting meters some years ago. They replaced them with the infernal "pay-by-phone" system, which means you have to pay for a call (or text) on top of your actual parking charge. For occasional visitors to the borough it must be an enormously frustrating process, having to type in the ID of the bay, the car's registration number, your payment card details, etc. And of course, there's no way of passing unused time to someone else.
Westminster did away with pay-and-diplay machines and cash-collecting meters some years ago. They replaced them with the infernal "pay-by-phone" system, which means you have to pay for a call (or text) on top of your actual parking charge. For occasional visitors to the borough it must be an enormously frustrating process, having to type in the ID of the bay, the car's registration number, your payment card details, etc. And of course, there's no way of passing unused time to someone else.
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