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Permit holders parking - I need help!
Ray_Smith
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I don't know if this applies around the whole of the UK but in London there are signs with
Permit Holders Only
2 - 3pm.
Does anyone know what that means? Can I park in those time slots or park outside those time slots? I can't find the info on the internet!
Update - have I posted this in the wrong section of the forum?
Permit Holders Only
2 - 3pm.
Does anyone know what that means? Can I park in those time slots or park outside those time slots? I can't find the info on the internet!
Update - have I posted this in the wrong section of the forum?
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I live in a road (not in London) and it says 9am to 8pm for residents and outside those hours anyone can park there.
YES!
I will understand!
It would be my understanding of that sign from what you have said, but I would call the local council rather than take my word for it.
Just an hour of restricted parking is a little odd.
Yes, you can.
That would explain why it is just an hour.
There's a town not far from here where it is also just an hour or two you cannot park, but I always thought I was missing something and couldn't park there at all.
Those evil geniuses
The reason is as Ethel_Fred described: it stops commuters parking there and going to a nearby station for work. That would be unfair because they would leave their cars there until 6/7pm, meaning the residents would have nowhere to park until late evening, and it would also take income away from the station car park. Most places in London within a mile of a railway station will have similar restrictions.
The town I work in is full of large office buildings so the restrictions are 9-10am and 3-4pm, which prevents commuters who start early and those who start late.
Edit: For all of you who don't know what these signs mean, bus lane signs are similar in London. Where they say "7-10am" it means that's only a bus lane for those three hours. Outside of those hours you can use it as a normal lane. Sometimes I have been the only car using the lane and sailed past hundreds of yards of stationary cars who don't seem to realise it's not restricted ALL the time.
There's a long street near me with a bus lane nearly all the way down it. It's a bus lane from 4pm - 7pm, and it stays that way over several junctions.
Then suddenly, after one junction, and without any warning, it changes to 7am - 7pm. The council has put a bus lane camera up at that point, and has made a fortune from it.
Why are you telling people that? I save an hour a week using bus lanes outside of operational hours, the less people that know the better
By having just 1 hour during the day when the car would have to be moved is a major disincentive to do this, so people park in the proper train station car parks.
They usually put the restricted hour right in the middle of the working day so it would be impossible/impractical for people to get the train/tube back just to move their car.
This is also very cheap to enforce as you only have to pay a warden for one hour a day