Lidl parking

[Nightjar]

That would require a failure of both the outgoing capture on the first day and the incoming capture on the second, which would be a very low probability event.

[polygonum]

It happened to us.

They might simply have ignored/not noticed the incoming capture. I don't know what the accuracy of such ANPR systems is, but they must have a certain failure rate due to being blocked such as by taller vehicles, heavy rain or snow, or obscuring of plates even by a leaf.

[News]

Sounds a good reason not to move to London :-)

I like living in the sticks where nothing much happens, where there are no car parking charges, no large supermarkets, no traffic lights, no roundabouts, no belisha beacons ...

[ARW]

Money?

Collingham train station has recently built a car park due to the numbers of cars parked on the country road next to the station[1].

The car park is empty as everyone still parks on the road as they do not like to pay for the parking.

[1] I did a very nice LED car park lighting job there:-)

[Andrew Gabriel]

At one of the ones I use, you have to enter your number into a console in store, but only if you parked for over 90 minutes, IIRC.

It's easy walking distance so I only drive if I'm going back collect something which is too big to carry home, which is going to be 10 minutes tops, but I do still type my number in.

[ARW]

Considering the way many motorists leave their cars parked I would not be so sure about that.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Ok. I'll drive for an hour or more to Lakeside. No parking restrictions there.

Do you enjoy cutting off your nose to spite your face?

[Chris French]

There is such at setup at the Beehive Centre in Cambridge (big Asda and other stores). 3 hrs free parking

Generally works fine, and I have no problem with it - otherwise everyone would use it to park in all day and go into central cambridge.

But it did c*ck up with a friend of mine. They went in and out in the morning, and then went back in and out in the afternoon.

I can't remember if the recording system failed or it was a software error - but it recorded here as being there all day

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Surely not in that vast country you are so proud of?

[Dave Plowman (News)]

I'd expect so. When I were a lad in the '50s, it was far less common for women to drive - even if there was a family car, which again wasn't everyone.

[ARW]

I will be at work if they call in the daytime. I wonder if I should leave a note on the door with my mobile number (a new PAYG number not my number) and see if s/he calls that? The CCTV would pick up the conversation if they called.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

As it was here too, when they first arrived. The smaller local stores came later.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Why would you want a car park at a train station? If you have a car, why not use it for the whole journey?

[Dave Plowman (News)]

If I'd had to enter the number myself, this tread wouldn't exist.

The till person who should have was rather more interested in flirting with the lad on the next one. ;-)

[ARW]

Not a good assumption IMHO as this is a thread you started and you were a Lidl customer:;)

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Very true. ;-)

Perhaps the till person thought I looked too poor to own a car?

[charles]

my mother got her driving licence in the 1920s - no test, but you did need one for an International Driving Licnce.

[charles]

'cos there's nowhere to park at the other end. And, if you work in London, the train gets you there quite a bit faster.

[DJC]

Or bad programming. Counting only the first in and the last out.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

You could also get a driving licence during WW2 with no test. A pal of my mother's had done just this - and it showed. ;-)