If it were only as simple as Guest has put it! There are hundreds, if not thousands, of people in London who would LOVE to rent a space. truth of the matter is there is no space to rent! What this guy is pointing out, if nothing else, is the ridiculaous situation of people having to pay their road tax and the congestion charge only to find that they have nowhere to park:-( Sorry about people pinching your space, it annoys me as well, but surely we can come up with a better solution than the draconian methods imposed by some authorities. Time share? Park and Ride? I am not sure what is best but something must be better than what we have!

Feeding the meter is illegal in parts of the UK, Kendall. Once you have had your alloted 2 hours you are supposed to move on and if not you face the same penalties as if you had not paid!

Paying a ticket is not a problem for most people either. Usualy between £20 and £40. It is the fees to remove the illegaly placed device, that are more than the ticket that ranckles most folk. It is also the fact that most of these are placed by parking authorities who are payed by the number of people they clamp.

Gone are the days when a policeman will ask you to move if you are causing an obstruction or illegaly parked. Huge lorries and vans delivering all manner of goods on busy roads during peak times are ignored while the private motorist parked innocuously in a quiet road is issued with a fine! It has simply become a matter of number crunching and cashing in on the easy targets.

Come the revolution brothers...

(We will all walk!)

Cheers

Dave the Gnome