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Car parking fees: Motorists' thoughts

5:00pm Tuesday 7th February 2012 in News By Katie Clark

PAY: Sam Spencer PAY: Sam Spencer

• Sam Spencer from Christchurch said: “I pay for 10 minutes twice a day to go and pick my children up.

“The car parks should have barriers and you should just pay for how long you use.”

• Mum Katie O’Connor said: “I do think the prices are too high when you have to go somewhere quickly.”

She added: “A lot of us need to get to the schools every day and are forced to pay.”

• Sue Sissen from Southbourne said: “I do think it is out of order to put the prices up.

“There should be some regulation to them.”

She added: “I go to Castlepoint to do a lot of shopping.”

• Caroline Deeming who is also from Christchurch said: “I think it’s too much at the moment.

“If they want to bring people to the town they have to keep the price down.”

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Comments(10)

rayc says...
6:02pm Tue 7 Feb 12

For a lot of drivers the use of car parks and parking meters are a discretionary expenditure for part of their parking needs.
The best thing to do is use that discretion wisely and decide how much you are prepared to pay into their coffers.

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Adrian XX says...
6:33pm Tue 7 Feb 12

Might it be possible for some of these mothers to park a little bit further from the school in a free parking space and use the extra time it takes to pick up their kids to get their recommended 30 minutes of moderate exercise? You can run with a small child on your shoulders or back or you can run with a pushchair or while your child cycles or scoots.

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pete woodley says...
6:39pm Tue 7 Feb 12

You are so naive adrian,thats not their way nowadays.

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twynham says...
7:27pm Tue 7 Feb 12

pete woodley wrote:
You are so naive adrian,thats not their way nowadays.
Spot on!

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speedy231278 says...
10:35pm Tue 7 Feb 12

Why can't the kids walk to school?

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Afcbpete says...
11:00pm Tue 7 Feb 12

speedy231278 wrote:
Why can't the kids walk to school?
Don't be daft, walk to school, how prehistoric, almost Dickensian... Seriously kids are SO mollycoddled now a days it's ridiculous....

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bobbins says...
11:23pm Tue 7 Feb 12

speedy231278 wrote:
Why can't the kids walk to school?
Because most kids at the Priory School don't live very locally presumably so not in 'reasonable' walking distance for a lot of them. They don't do catchment areas for most of their intake

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Holes Bay Curve says...
8:41am Wed 8 Feb 12

The roads are so unsafe for kids to walk to school these days BECAUSE of the 'busy' mums racing to drop their little 'darlings' off at school.

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Lord Spring says...
9:13am Wed 8 Feb 12

When I went to school they where schools within easy reach of homes .
They have gone or been concentrated into one sometimes requiring ferrying of children.
Always remember one piece of advice my mother gave to me when walking to school on my own " If a Tank is coming get in someones garden out of the way" more of them about then than cars

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bogtrotter says...
1:48pm Wed 8 Feb 12

I think the fact you drop off and pick up means you are never going to get a good deal on parking fees, why would they lower it when they know people will spend it... basic business.

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