Motorcycle Parking In Liverpool

[GSXR_Warrior]

I read recently in the Liverpool Echo that bikes would not be allowed to park in the 'Pay and Display' car parks, even if they pay.

I contacted Liverpool Council to find out where free motorcycle parking is available and received the email below with an attachment (attached to post) stating where the free parking is.

Mail received:

I am writing in response to your Have Your Say query via email dated 5 August 2006 regarding free parking places for motorcycles in Liverpool.

On-street Pay & Display facilities are provided for short stay parking, i.e. maximum stay 2 hours. This is to facilitate shoppers and visitors to the City and not provide parking for commuters. Most motorcycles parked in Pay & Display bays are there for a full day, depriving other road users from using the parking for the purpose it was intended for - short stay parking.

Motorcycles have actually never been allowed (in legal terms) to use the on-street Pay & Display facilities as defined by the relevant Traffic Regulation Order. However, we have allowed use simply because there were no signs to advise of this 'prohibition'. There are issues with how a Pay & Display ticket could be displayed on a motorcycle. In wet weather the ticket would be destroyed, or it would wash off the bike. Someone could easily peel the ticket off, or it could blow away in the wind and therefore the 'purchaser' could not prove they had purchased one in the first place, in the event they needed to do so when issued with a penalty charge notice. The solution to all of these issues was to implement the Pay & Display parking in the way it was originally envisaged, i.e. motorcycles not be permitted to use the facilities (they do after all have free off-road parking and some free on-street parking at other locations). Consequently we are changing the tariff information on the ticket machines such that they will instruct that motorcycles cannot be parked in the bays, which is what they should have said when they were first introduced many years ago. Details of free on-street dedicated motorcycle parking facilities are shown on the attached extract from the Traffic Regulation Order. There are also some free motor cycle parking places in both Victoria Street Car Park and Mount Pleasant Car Park.
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Who wrote that word doc?

There's an open bike bay thing that just outside the Burger King near Liverpool Central.