to be a bt confused and very pissed off with parking at work.

[HEXentricaGallumbits]

Parking at work is shite. I have to leave an hour before I need to so I can find a place. Somehting had to be done but....
Now - won't do too many details or it will be blatently obvious who I am.

Parking will go up from £5 a month to £12.

2 out of 5 days I can't park at work at all and will need to drive past work to a park and ride, 4 more miles, then pay £2 to be bussed back to work.

I could get a bus but they don't run at the times I need to be in work.

AIBU to be a bit and ?

[HEXentricaGallumbits]

PS. how much do you lot pay to park at work? or to get to work?

[HEXentricaGallumbits]

And increase is to £20 a minth not £12. don't know how I worked that one out.

[PuppyMonkey]

No parking at work for me at all. Costs me £3.50 a day in the NCP across the road of £3 a day for Park and Ride. A lot of workplaces have no parking at all.

Mind you, am quite glad. I work in Nottingham which has decided to introduce a workplace parking levy for all businesses (v.controversial, first city to do it etc). Each space is going to end up costing employers £250 per year or something - which they'll obviously pass onto employee. Which is nice.

So you're quite lucky really.

[agedknees]

I pay £12 per month (work part time). Parking fees go on how many hours you work and the grade you are.

Have to come in 30 mins early to get a space.

You have to reach a strict guideline in order to get a parking permit ie live over 10 miles away, have physical problems etc.

DH pays nowt for parking at his work.

[HEXentricaGallumbits]

£20 a month will be £240 a year . plus the £180ish a year bus fares. they're bloody raking it in. car park is owned not by where i work but by town council

[NomDePlume]

Hi Eccentrica

We had a similar parking reshuffle earlier this year where I work (hospital).

All staff wishing to use the on-site staff carparking had to apply for a permit detailing their home postcode and the distance they travel to and from work, plus any extenuating circumtstances that people felt should be taken into account when the powers that be made their decision (such as school runs/young children/etc).

Some got a full permit, others got a partial permit enabling them to use the staff carpark x days a week and the P&R the rest of the time, some were given a P&R permit and others had any parking priviledges completely revoked (if they live within a certain short distance from work).

Those who have P&R only permits get to travel and park for free. Those who park on site have the parking fees taken from their wages every month. Fees are on a sliding scale depending how much you earn - the more you earn, the more you pay. Nurses/midwives/physios (staff in that Band) on a f/t salary pay around £10pm for their parking.

Lots of people face the same thing of having to drive PAST work to get to the P&R only to come back on themselves again in the bus 15 mins later. Irritating, but the staff parking was a JOKE at my place before they did this. Lots of cars were damaged because people were, essentially, abandoning their cars in thoughtless places making it impossible for people to get out of the car park safely without scraping their (and/or someone elses) car.

[HEXentricaGallumbits]

Parking is a pain in the arse as it is but I still think they are taking the piss if you have no other way of getting to work (like me).

[sethstarkaddersmum]

they had a wonderful scheme planned at my old work which fortunately never happened because there was an outcry.
They were going to employ a full-time public transport co-ordinator whose job would be to encourage staff to use public transport. Their job would be paid for by massively increased parking charges.

[hystericalmum]

There is a massive call centre near me. Parking there is limited. And transport is no good.
The employers park in all the close streets. It's caused chaos with bad parking & that. But then the employers have no choice really.
The office moved so lots had no choice but to stay working there no matter where they lived or the transport issues.

[DanceInTheDark]

Can you drive to a train station and then get the train into work?

[Mammie81]

Be grateful you have parking! I asked for 3 days in a row here, as its my last 3 days before mat leave. I was told NO - no three days in a row for ANYONE.

Unless you are two of my colleagues who booked the parking spaces just to catch our reception guy out! Seems its only me who cant book 3 days in a row....

[HEXentricaGallumbits]

work is a few miles outside big town. train station in centre of big town. good bus links in big town to work.

i like many many people don't live in big town so have to drive as buses are crap out in the sticks. also no trains in my little town in the sticks.

[Tigerbomb]

£20 per week here in a city centre car park. If the small cheap car park is full then it is £10 a day

Both my DH and I work in a city centre and both had different hours.

My work agreed to change my hours so that we could both travel to and from work together to help cut down costs.

Works a treat