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??

The closest parking to my Dads work was £5 a day and quite a walk so he used to park all day in the free two hour parking spots immediately outside his work. On average he got a parking ticket every other week. I can’t remember what the parking ticket cost him but it wasn’t too much but I know it worked out as less than a weeks worth of parking.

You wouldn’t get away with it where I live as the traffic wardens are too quick.

Where I used to live it was £5 per hour. TBH, £3.10 is crazy cheap for an entire day.

Is there not anyway you can park further away and walk?

I'd pay it grudgingly, but stir up a demand among all the staff for subsidised or free parking.

I would love to be able to park at work for £3.10 a day, for me it is £8.50. Even with the cost of petrol it would still be cheaper (and quicker by about 3/4 hour each way) than public transport. But I am very lucky that DH drops me off on his way to work (free parking) and picks me up afterwards. It adds about 20 minutes to the beginning and end of my working day but it is worth it.

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

It's the special Brexit year. Inflation means there will be 1000 days in each year after Brexit.

Wow how many people can't believe OP pays £7 a day petrol?! Not everyone works on their doorstep! I do 20 miles each way and it is not possible to get there by public transport.

It's the parking charge OP is querying.

OP it's not a high charge but I understand it's annoying if you've previously had free parking. It's not bad price compared to many parking spots.

I used to walk 40 mins to work. Then later in life when time was in shorter supply, I would put my jogging gear on and run it. Couldn't afford the fuel, the permit, or the parking costs. There are ways around a situation.

£8 a day for parking here. And around a fiver for petrol.

I work in a city centre and it would be hard for my employer to provide free parking because it’s at a premium, as so many public car parks are being demolished to make way for office space so there’s no bargaining power unfortunately.

Wouldn’t call that out of control

I was paying £7 15 years ago in the end parked out of town had bike rack on car and cycled last 10 minutes
to pay £3.10 tbh is a low charge for all day parking

I either pay £10 fuel and £5 parking a day or £17 on the train.

No chance of a free car park.

So yes, I’d probably pay the £3.80 rather than a longer journey.

I used to pay £6 a day which was a fortune to me. I found a local pub and they did a deal of £20 a month for me which was great. Is there anywhere like that near where you work?

My goodness, these prices all sound extraordinarily low for parking. The last two places I worked, parking within a 6 or 7 block radius was an absolute minimum of $30 per day. I know that's USD but it's still over £20, and that's in pretty much any downtown area of a major US city.

Are those parking costs normal?

£3.10 in itself isn't a lot for a full day's parking but if you are spending £7 a day on fuel then it is costing you £10.10 a day just to go to work. Assuming you work 5 days a week that's £50.50 which I think is a lot!

As someone else mentioned, can you car share from the free car park to reduce costs? Or try a pub car park as someone else said?

The church my mother in law goes to rent out car parking spaces cheaply - any churches with car parks near by?

Reading this makes me realise how very lucky I am! I only work 10 miles from home and drive an economic car so fuel probably costs me £15 a week and I park for free.

Gosh it is another world in mumsnet land. I have never paid for works parking either working close enough to home to walk or free parking (multi storey free parking at one firm)
These car parking fees seem extortionate - even our local hospital only charges staff £28 per calendar month.

Totally depends on salary and circumstances ( partner, other work benefits etc)
£10.00 a day on travel is too much on anthing less than 20k in my situation.

Holy shit this makes me thankful for where I work. £12 per month parking or a free bus from the city centre which I can walk to in 15 minutes.

£4/day for parking here. £2 option (10 minutes walk away + 10-15 minutes extra driving from my side of county). Free parking on street in slightly dodgy area 25 minutes walk away.
Driving is +£9 for petrol&weartear.

I take the train & cycle as much as possible. Train fare is £7-£9.50/day and hugely lower stress than nutty commuters & ring road maniacs.

A day's peak-time parking (yep, they got in on the 'peak-time' act pretty sharpish) at our local train station is over £7. No free on-street parking nearby at all. Full-price rail ticket to London if you have to travel at commuter times is around £21.00. So you're looking at almost £30 a day if, like me, you work part-time and don't travel regularly enough to buy a season ticket.

This is prime commuter belt, 25 miles or so from London. Sorry, just ranting

I'd suggest giving the JustPark app a try for any cheaper spaces nearby, OP, but you might not find it's significantly less. I'm afraid £3.10 a day sounds OK to me!

Worth checking out JustPark, perhaps

£3.10 a day! Bless you. It costs me £30 per day on the train

Seems bloody cheap to me! But your fuel costs are high. Do you have a long drive to work or a gas guzzler? Are there any public transport option available?

Consider yourself lucky. If you were working at a certain north London hospital you’d be paying £15 a day. 😱

Sounds reasonable!