‘Disaster’ for locals as motorists shun car park after 600% tariff hike
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/herne-bay/news/disaster-for-locals-as-motorists-shun-car-park-after-600-311423/?fbclid=IwY2xjawExgaxleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHXIiDMWzKof7xoPqxkmPB_7XWYKvaqCOrNfx7E67J5sl-M_fagn6BBSCHA_aem_ADfadxXM9nbZUBYTEIko0A#jui4hsd8hcm
Posted by Codydoc4
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You thought it was an April fools joke, did you really Scott?
Either way, this land is likely worth far more to the council for development than somewhere to store cars.
The opposite of this, that proves just how harmful parking charges are, is when all of the parking meters in Cardigan got vandalised in one sitting.
All of the local businesses reported a huge up-tick in trade.
Not to condone, but with councils on the verge of bankruptcy all over the place, of course they’re going to pull shit like this.
Does it have to be on a high street to serve local businesses and amenities, I mean it looks like it’s the closest place to park for the post office for example.
It’s short sighted, revenue goes up, the council high five each other.
Then businesses start to close, and the council get less money in from the businesses. Sadly at this point they pay someone to come in and tell them why.
Granted it was an obvious car park on that side of Herne but when you look at the fact there’s about a dozen car parks along the sea front around 1km away, my gut reaction – cash strapped Council, Car Park is running at a loss probably (wasn’t a multi story but it does happen), under utilised – hike the tarrif, force them onto other sites, sell the car park through complete lack of use & move on. I don’t see the harm with this? Welcome to the world. It isn’t very nice out there at the minute.
What I’ve been seeing is local protests by people filling these parking machines with foam.
Utterly destroy them and even if they have a phone code, just say you have a pay as you go phone and had no credit only change.
The more people wreck these machines, allegedly, the faster these companies will back down. The French would have burned the parking lot down already.
Swansea Council did something similar with the city centre car parks. Trade plummeted and they reversed the prices quickly but the damage was long lasting as footfall took a long time to recover.