Car parking costs at work out of control

[Notmorewashing]

Parking at work now costs us £3.10 per day. If we park in free public carpark it adds 45mins to journey time. Would you just pay up to save a bit more time on commute and kids dinner rush Hell??

I pay £19 a day on public transport, reduced to £14 if I plan in advance and split my ticket (train). Work offer no parking at all, subsidised or otherwise. Not on a huge salary either - a little over £30k.

Similarly. DH and I combined have commuting costs of >£800 per month (public transport). And neither of us has a salary that makes that anything less than a big chunk of our outgoings.

How does £3.10 per day add up to 3k for a year?

It costs me more than £25 a day to travel to work on public transport. I'm so glad I can work from home some of the time.

Our office is £90 a month. Bastards.

@SilverHairedCat where in Plymouth are you parking? If it's any good for you plymouth pavilions do passes that work out at £3.50 a day. Or the car park jut across the road from pavilions by the water is £4 a day.

It's not the parking that is making your commute expensive. 2/3 of the cost is is petrol.

Not sure how you can complain about the cost of parking, really.

Well I don’t think it’s cheap!

I pay £20 a month!

I was paying £2.50 a day parking when I was a 17 yo paid £2.50 an hour. You make your choices.

£3 per hour here.

How far are you travelling to spend £7 on fuel per day? Can you drive part of the way and cycle or anything? Assume you’ve already thought of that though. A friend cycles to station, gets train and cycles to work. It’s that or 30 mile drive and hospital car park fees

Parking for a full day for me would be £11.

Suffice to say I have great walkers legs! 😁

@sittingonacornflake that's really useful, thank you. We're all hoping the Toys R Us car park is re opened soon! Most people use the multi storey off Mayflower Stor the park and ride. I park the bike closer to my work.

It depends on what's normal for the area on how someone would feel about it.
E.g. I can park for a couple of hours in town for free so the idea of paying for an hour's parking at another town feels like a lot to me. (And if I visit some friends it's like £4 an hour and I feel robbed, but they moved out from the SE so think it's such a good deal)

I'd probably pay the £3.10 OP but contact the car park provider and see if they do a permit scheme.

Are you talking 45 mins each way? So an hour and a half a day? Because paying what works out at just over £2 an hour for extra leisure time seems an absolute no-brainer to me.

Then again, so does £4 an hour if you mean 45 mins in total.

Imagine your work told you you could reduce your working day by 45 mins, and they'd reduce your pay by £3.10 a day - you'd snap that up, right?

We're all hoping the Toys R Us car park is re opened soon!

Above ToysRUs is open. It never shut and is £5 for the day.

I know it's all relative but that's cheap for all day parking! DH used to have to try and get into a car park for the 'early bird' rate, which was £8. However if the car park was full it would mean going to the next one - by which time the early bird rate would have finished, and the day rate was £24!

Fortunately his employer moved offices and they now have a subsidised car park which is £7 per day.

I have to pay £6.60 to park in the hospital car park or have a 25 minute walk through a dodgy area to park for free. Wouldn't mind but the job is low pay, if we were employed by the NHS we would possibly get it subsidised but our employers are too tight to give any help towards it.

£7 in petrol per day is a lot, £3.10 bargain I pay £8

For me it would depend on how much easier it made my life. I dont pay for parking but every return jouurney to work costs me £20, its really expensive and a bloody long commute. But i drive as its cheaper than public transport overall and in time its quicker.

I don't think it's cheap, but I have never had to pay to park at work. And no, I don't work from home. But I don't live out work in a city which probably helps.

£3.10? Yeah I’d pay that for all day parking.

I'd pay it. When I was a healthcare student we weren't entitled to reduced staff parking. It was £33 per week. all the surrounding parking areas were residential permits. Closest free parking was a huge huge walk. Not to mention the 40 miles a day round trip...on a £2.10 an hour bursary those were the days...

I pay £3 a day in works staff car park. I don't think thats too bad tbh. It's a quid for up to 4 hours.This is in the Midlands.

VERY occasionally I drive to work and park a 15 min walk away from the office for £12 a day and I thought that was amazingly cheap.

If I park opposite the office it’s £35

Parking outside my house is £3.50 an hour. Train fare is £25 per day with a season ticket. I know of nowhere you can park for anywhere that little for a whole day!