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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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[nq:1]Just curious, are the 'pay and display' schemes still used in UK carparks?[/nq]
Very much so. Though you've got to make sure everyone you display to is over 16.
[nq:1]It's been a long time for me (States-side, now) but I remember some blokes who would stick a few dozen ... up looking for the current sticker: it might take her longer to find it before one returned to drive off.[/nq]
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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[nq:1]Just curious, are the 'pay and display' schemes still used in UK carparks?[/nq]
Yes; and it really is irksome to have to fork out an entire 20p just to go shopping at the market!
[nq:1]It's been a long time for me (States-side, now) but I remember some blokes who would stick a few dozen ... up looking for the current sticker: it might take her longer to find it before one returned to drive off.[/nq]
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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[nq:2]Just curious, are the 'pay and display' schemes still used in UK carparks?[/nq]
[nq:1]Yes; and it really is irksome to have to fork out an entire 20p just to go shopping at the market![/nq]
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.
Matthew Huntbach

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[nq:2]Just curious, are the 'pay and display' schemes still used in UK carparks?[/nq]
[nq:1]Yes; and it really is irksome to have to fork out an entire 20p just to go shopping at the market![/nq]
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.
Phil C.

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[nq:2]Yes; and it really is irksome to have to fork out an entire 20p just to go shopping at the market![/nq]
[nq:1]Only if you insist in bringing your car.[/nq]
Why else would you be using whatever paying system in the car park?
[nq:1]Are there still places where 20p is the minimum?[/nq]
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.)
[nq:1]In London I don't know of anywhere with a minimum of less than 50p, and in many places it's more than that.[/nq]
Well, there are probably some advantages to living in London, not that I can think of any.

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[nq:2]Just curious, are the 'pay and display' schemes still used in UK carparks?[/nq]
[nq:1]Yes; and it really is irksome to have to fork out an entire 20p just to go shopping at the market![/nq]
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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[nq:1]David wrote in uk.culture.language.english about: Re: Pay and Display[/nq]
[nq:2]Yes; and it really is irksome to have to fork out an entire 20p just to go shopping at the market![/nq]
[nq:1]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..[/nq]
Aye. Perhaps I should use the bus that travels directly over the fields.

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[nq:2]As cheap as that for the dubious privilege of adding ... towns and countryside? Seems too cheap by far, to me..[/nq]
[nq:1]Aye. Perhaps I should use the bus that travels directly over the fields.[/nq]
Wow, they have one of these where you live? ;-D

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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[nq:1]David wrote in uk.culture.language.english about: Re: Pay and Display[/nq]
[nq:2]Aye. Perhaps I should use the bus that travels directly over the fields.[/nq]
[nq:1]Wow, they have one of these where you live? ;-D http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catbus[/nq]
Don't think my dogs'd like it.
[nq:1]The point being, if you choose to live somewhere with inadequate public transport (or live elsewhere but choose not to ... that decision. On the relatively rare occasions anybody needs to use a car, 20p's a pretty small price to pay..[/nq]
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.
[nq:1]If more people used public transport, we wouldn't need to keep building bigger and wider roads everywhere..[/nq]
Aren't those for the consumer goods being stored in transit?

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[nq:2]It's been a long time for me (States-side, now) but ... longer to find it before one returned to drive off.[/nq]
[nq:1]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.[/nq]
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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