Parking and Pay and Display

[Bene]

I have a question about parking. I have Googled around and seem to get conflicting advice, but how do you go about parking in pay and display areas or parking in general? Can you park up on the kerb? It seems not but... Or how about parking in controlled zones out of the hours permitted?

Thanks.

[mentalboy]

Best bet is to find a local street Nazi.
Different towns have different policies.
Torbay likes you park at the ends of marked on street parking. Most of the car parks have Bike spaces.
However I was a little gobsmacked two years ago when I tried to park in a town car park in Oxford. The warden said leave it on the yellow cross hatchings! There were bikes blocking footpaths in and out of the car park, including mine which isn't exactly a tiddler requiring little room????
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[Bene]

OK thanks. It seems strange that different towns have different policies, it seems like it's just down to the local nazi warden in charge. Another grey area then really. I've found a couple of bike zone parking areas in the centre of town, which is great, but there are one or two places I would like to get to but there are yellows in all directions and I wanted to be sure of the rules so that I don't come back to find clamps on my bike or something stupid.

Cheers.

[thepuma]

Ive often wondered if you have to buy a ticket at pay and display carparks? I know they have dedicated spaces but it doesnt say anywhere on the price board if motorbikes have to pay or not.
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[doggone]

I remember stopping somewhere in the Lakes where it specifically said on the board that bikes were free of charge - but then then a parking Nazi came over when I returned, and said I should have paid "but he would let me off because the wording was not clear".
I thought 'Free' was quite different from 'You have to pay' and told him so.

Basically the number of bikes using car parks in many areas is so small it seems to confuse them.
It's always best to squeeze in some little space away from the regular spaces anyway if at all possible.
In fact I've never paid to park a bike but might be prepared to in a city centre.

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[cimbian]

Not being a local, I rode around car parks in Guildford yesterday looking for bike parking but found none (near-ish to Maplin) so squeezed on the end of a P&D bay outside the shop. Others had parked bikes on pavements on side streets.

I see more and more places with bike parking and even some barriered car parks with official motorcycle lanes to by-pass the barriers... even better!

Quite where we are supposed to securely put a P&D sticker is unknown to me and many aren't even stickers.
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[kernow24]

All the council car parks around here are free, most have dedicated spots, but if they are full you can park anywhere providing you dont cause an obstruction, and you shouldn't 'really' park in the car spaces but plenty do without issue.

But then, I live in Cornwall, providing you don't park somewhere obviously stupid, you can get away with anything, until the newbie copper trying to make an impression tries to have a moan, but then they usually just say park somewhere else in future.
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[Andy_Pagin]

Bike parking is almost always free, but the rules vary from one council to another. In Enfield It's only free in the m/c bays. City of London has loads of free m/c only areas, they're desperate to ease congestion.
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[yen_powell]

I've just designed a new car park for Victoria Park and the first thing I did was make sure there was somewhere free to park my bike if I visit, it's only fair innit.
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[DrSnoosnoo]

I went to Harrogate in a multistory deal. I just called the number on the sign and the bloke on the phone just said,

"Try and park it out of the way and you don't have to pay"

Obviously meaning, try not to take up a space in a busy car park, so I got on the yellow hatchings near a wall
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[Shinigami]

all depends on the local authority etc

in sunderland I tend to either park behind the womans workplace if during the day or in the multi story in the evening as that's also free for bikes (entirely due to the barriers not working for bikes due to weight so have to leave via the pedestrian gap next to it)
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[darkhorizon]

Merton is free everywhere & I think Croydon is as well. Westminster is a shocker!!
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