Parking a bike...

[Flemy]

Legal to do so anywhere apart from double yellows and red routes?

Like could I go and park in a pay and display bay without paying? Or in a hospital where they charge astronomical parking fees?
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[parkmoy]

I sought clarification about parking in pay and display in my area without paying. The answer was it's OK as long as the bike is parked wholly within a parking bay or designated motorcycle parking area. Sinve there are no designated areas, a bay it has to be.

[Nick__C]

Only place I park normally is in a council pay and display (free ticket for upto an hour) in the bay, council pay and display motorcycle bay, or in a car bay if the bike pay is full, however after 6 the parking has no charges, or on a street in town which I don't think (or atleast hope it doesn't) has charges for bikes. Then also at college and work with no charge

How do parking attendants ticket bikes? Surely there is no where it can be reasonably fastened unlike a car windscreen wiper?
And what if the ticket is stolen? (same for cars really) You won't realise you've been ticketed and have your fine jacked up?
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[Cheeseybeaner]

Never had the rubber band on the throttle, they seem to stick them on the tank, top box or screen for me!

[Paris2]

My local councils website (portsmouth) says all about parking restrictions for motorbikes. Basically saying that it is free as long as your in a marked bay for pay and display, and free on any road as long as its not on yellow lines.

Luckily my workplace also has free parking for bikes, as does my hospital and pretty much everywhere else I go
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[ninja_butler]

MY local shopping town shopping centre car park unofficially allows motorcycle parking in the "reserved" bays but still it annoys me that wherever I go there is seldom any provision made for bike parking, it's like town and city centre managers have a grudge against two-wheelers.

Sometimes I can ride around and around a town looking for somewhere to park and there's not a single spot anywhere within a mile radius of the shopping centre where motorcycle parking is allowed. Would it kill them to mark a parking bay for bikes? I mean, how many bikes and scooters can you get into the same space a car takes up?

I honestly believe there is a policy of "discouraging" motorcycles.




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[Cheeseybeaner]

[G]

And that's the thing - it's not that bikes are really being discriminated against, just not being given favourable treatment.
You can still park in a car bay and pay car prices.
With a pretty low percentage of regular daily bike riders outside of London, can quite understand people not wanting to make provisions.

[ninja_butler]

[G]

Ok; in most places. I suspect that often the 'no motorcycles' rules came about from bikes not paying. Though in some cases may well have been moaning car drivers.

Oh and similar issues for my (pretty low and generally small) kit car - ticket could just as easily be stolen and someone may not see it.
So, I demand kit car specific parking!

[Cheeseybeaner]

I just think a degree of leniency for bike parking is in order given the disinterest in providing spaces in convenient places.
Provided the bike isn't causing an obstruction and is parked in a reasonable way leave it alone would be my personal approach, but then I don't work in parking services who obviously have a revenue raising agenda!
In most areas just parking alongside a bicycle rack is considered ok and I don't see anything unacceptable with this.

[G]

Never had a problem in Reading parking on the pavement, next to push bike racks etc, even though there were dedicated motorbike parking bays.
Also rode up a pedestrianised area and parked right outside the shop I wanted to go to when I was on crutches.

[open]

In London it depends what borough:

https://www.motorcycleparking.com/parking_london.shtml
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[J.M.]

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[millymols]

I've always found parking a difficult subject because most carparks don't mention anything about bikes on signs but do on websites!

What is the point in writing it on a website when we are unaware trying to find a space!

Parking on the path ect - from what I gather, it seems to depend on the views of the council that you're in or even the mood of the traffic wardens at the time.
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[johnsmith222]

Parking attendants are total jobsworths so don't think that because where you have parked is reasonable doesn't mean they won't give you a ticket.

I now park in private car parks such as NCP ones etc. No clamping in Scotland, make sure I've chained my bike to something and anything they send me gets filed in the bin.

I got out of the council ticket I got because my motorcycle had conveniently broken down outside my uni and had to be recovered.

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[Dave70]

Over here (Isle of Man), my area has a parking permit system for residents. Now I have only recently bought a 125 and currently only have a provisional licence. So I was in the process of applying for one of these residents permits, only to discover that on the application form it states that they are not available to provisional licence holders. So, I thought, where the hell do they expect me to park my bike?

So I sent them en email explaining my predicament and received a reply that said that I was correct and was not entitled to a permit on a provisional licence but, if I parked my bike at an angle and moved it regularly (they didn't state how regular though ) then I should be okay. They also gave me the phone number of the parking supervisor for my area, should I have any problems.

Now to myself, I cannot understand their logic in denying provisional licence holders a permit, nor did I receive anything in their reply to justify this. Like I don't need to park my bike on a provisional!

However, a week in and I have not had a ticket yet and the parking attendants round here are sh*t hot.