?150 to park bike in central London! (per year)

[natefz6]

OK so in the past week the signs have stated going up.

Parking Zone E in Westminster will be the next trial area to charge bikes to park in central london. The new charges should be in by 4th August 2008.

£1.50 a day and some discounted rates for a week or a month up to £150 per year.

I now have to balance up if it is worth me continuing to ride in or stump up the £30 pounds a week for a travel card and ditch the bike.

With insurance and fuel charges in central london it is starting to look as though with this added cost i may be better off stopping biking. Does anyone know of any petitions or rallys against this? I may have to write a letter to boris and see what he thinks.
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[Bishbash]

WTF, £1.50 the robbing gits. I thought the whole point of trying to get people to get on their bikes/motorbikes was to free up the congestion in London. There is absolutely no other point of this but to get more money out of the working man.

I mean they were already getting cheeky with their parking tickets if your parked 1 inch outside the bike bays.

Do you know who has implimented this? I will find the relevant complaint area.
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[Kris]

This is old news really, I posted a while back about this because it was originally supposed to be up and running already.

It's bullshit, but as usual we'll moan and pay. Then they''ll expand it to all boroughs and whack the price up.

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[natefz6]

[Bishbash]

[thx1138]

Earlier this year, in Torqauy, I was turned away from a private car park, manned, for having a bike, even when I offered to pay the same rate as a car. Cunt.

How does a season ticket for a biker work then? Do you have to buy one for each bike you own? Or do you stick it some magical place on your bike where it will not blow away, or be easily stolen?

[natefz6]

I think it will work on a per bike basis same as for cars. The parking in the street is all done by mobile phones now in this area so you call up and register that you have parked there. This then links the central DB with the parking warriors who will give you a ticket when instructed to by the hand held machine.

Every car they walk past they put the numberplate in now so i think this is how it works. (correct me if i am wrong.)
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[raak]

Hi

I live and ride in London and at the moment we have a dual system. Permit and solo m/cs.

Solo M/Cs are as usual choc a block BUT free, but without any security devices as i know of..

Permit only M/C spaces have a central anchor point that you 'flip' up (looks like a sink plug hole with a coke can type tab) to attach chain/security device.

they may be only metres away from each other, but be aware, (even motorbike shop guys have fallen foul to this.)

When riding in London, and ALL spaces are full, check that the empty one you find is FREE.

I Parked in Permit only not realising (empty space , late for work, etc;) and while walking away wondered why it was so empty, checked back at lunch time and matey was heading in to slap ticket on my machine...

a Quick smile while talking to parking idiot, let me start up bike and slap it in gear before he starts writing ticket, saving me XXXXX£

remember to check,.......... if its empty and all others are full....WHY !!

porter
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[TechJinx]

Hopefully this wont end up getting rolled out across London as I've noticed that since Boris came in some of Livingstones daft anti-everything-except-buses policies have been shelved/reversed.

I know this one is council driven but the Mayors office/TFL Surface Transport has veto over schemes like this I believe.
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[jbond]

Change of plans - instead of meeting at the pub next week please try to come to the Council's Built Environment Policy and Scrutiny commiittee meeting at City Hall, Westminster on Weds 3rd Sept at 7pm. Tickets for public attendance available in reception from 6pm. This is the committee that gave the go-ahead to charging motorcycles a year ago. We should be allowed to raise questions. I can think of plenty.

See this report, which forms part of Wednesday's agenda, esp section 2.

https://www3.westminster.gov.uk/csu/Policy_and_Scrutiny_Committees/Current_P_and_S_Committees_and_Task_Groups/Built_Environment_PandS/2008/3%20Sept%202008/Item%207a%20-%20Enforcement%20Strategy%20and%20Future%20of%20Parking%20V2%20(3).doc

[Major_Grooves]

iirc the London system works on having registered your bike on some website and paying by mobile phone.

What if you are just a visitor to London?
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