Westminster axes Sunday free parking
Free on-street parking in the evenings and on Sundays is to be scrapped across the West End.Westminster Tories voted to press ahead with charges to boost the council's £49 million annual parking income by up to £7 million a year.
Can some one explain to me, how in the name of Jebus this is supposed to help anybody, except the local council.
Surely as we continue to struggle out of recession, they should be encouraging more people to vsit the West End, go see a show, go to dinner. Not actively discouraging them.
Not everybody wants to get the Last Train home with Stabby McStab, Drunky McDrunk and Little Miss Sweary.
In any case my last train from town is 23:38, doesn’t give much time for lingering over a fine brandy and a Monte Cristo (pre July 2007). I could get a cab I suppose, but then add £30 plus to the night out (and in any case I live Sarf of the river)
This really does beggar belief.
Perhaps they should have a word with the Council in Banbury, who are about to scrap the 80p evening charges they introduced in April.
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The first night the charges applied, the wardens were out in force to impose an estimated £4,800 of fines on the customers of the town's restaurants, cinema and bars. The number of tickets issued has risen by nearly 100% from last year.
Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz of the Council pointed out that there were no notices but the charges had been clearly explaind in the Council's annual magazine.
Since the profits from parking charges will have to pay for the wardens to enforce them, the bulk of Westminster's gleefully prophesied £7m is likely to be extracted in the form of fines from all the people who forget or never knew that the rules applied.
Well my wife got a parking fine at 3am a couple of years ago, then we do live in the Soviet Socialist Republic of Edinburgh.
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