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headlamp
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PostPosted: 15:05 - 22 May 2009    Post subject: Westminster Reduce The Price Of Parking For Motorbikes Reply with quote
Just got a text to say Westminster are reducing the cost to £1 to park a bike in its designated bays.

My view: -

NOT GOOD ENOUGH

We should pay nothing!
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PostPosted: 15:43 - 22 May 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Why should bikes be able to park for free? Am I missing something? Confused
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PostPosted: 15:52 - 22 May 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Why does anyone have to pay for parking on streets that we have paid for?

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PostPosted: 16:09 - 22 May 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Chriss wrote:
Why should bikes be able to park for free? Am I missing something? Confused


Because they take up sod all space?
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headlamp
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PostPosted: 16:41 - 22 May 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Chriss wrote:
Why should bikes be able to park for free? Am I missing something? Confused


Bikes take up little space, are fuel efficient, and don't add to congestion. Therefore in crowded urban areas they should be encouraged as an alternative and environmentally friendly mode of transport as the reduce crowding on public transport.

Westminster's scheme is flawed because if you park all day it costs £1.50 (£1 from June 1st). If you go into central London for only half an hour and park in a designated bay then it costs £1. This is patently unfair.
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PostPosted: 18:17 - 22 May 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
headlamp wrote:
Chriss wrote:
Why should bikes be able to park for free? Am I missing something? Confused


Bikes take up little space, are fuel efficient, and don't add to congestion. Therefore in crowded urban areas they should be encouraged as an alternative and environmentally friendly mode of transport as the reduce crowding on public transport.

Westminster's scheme is flawed because if you park all day it costs £1.50 (£1 from June 1st). If you go into central London for only half an hour and park in a designated bay then it costs £1. This is patently unfair.

Thats quite amusing, fuel efficicent?
so being able to take 5 in a car as oposed to 2 on a bike makes a big ultimatly more fuel efficiant, the only time this rings true is if its a commuter type bike, if its anything else sportsbike etc there pretty much as efficient as cars if not worse alot of the time as bikes are made for the fun innit.
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PostPosted: 19:07 - 22 May 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
tutton wrote:

Thats quite amusing, fuel efficicent?
so being able to take 5 in a car as oposed to 2 on a bike makes a big ultimatly more fuel efficiant, the only time this rings true is if its a commuter type bike, if its anything else sportsbike etc there pretty much as efficient as cars if not worse alot of the time as bikes are made for the fun innit.


It's not really fair to compare a sports bike against a super mini though is it. If you compare the sports bike against a similar car product then the bike is more fuel efficient.

Like for like a bike is more fuel efficient.

Also how many cars in London are full? The majority that I see have one or two people in them.
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PostPosted: 20:25 - 22 May 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
The fuel efficiency issue also comes down to the amount of time it'll take to get from a-b. A bike across London will take less than half the time a car will - Making it a lot more efficent. Along with the fact a car will be doing a lot more stop/start work.
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