Lidl parking

[ARW]

I can do Ruislip Manor to Oxford Street faster in my van than on the tube if I avoid rush hours. There is always somewhere to park, but it costs.

[ARW]

Scruffy bugger like you probably runs around in an old Rover:-)

There used to be a SD1 on the street next to my parents when I was a child with the number plate SHE 1. I guess he sold the number plate.

"HE" number plates were ISTR used in the olden days for cars registred in Barnsley.

[ARW]

We?

Is there more than one of you?

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Of course. The roads are less busy. But then PT isn't as frequent either.

But if you need a van for work it's presumably to carry goods and tools etc. So PT isn't an alternative.

Parking in Central London is so expensive (and often difficult) that I never use the car. The trick is to plan your PT journey to give the most pleasant one. Sitting on a tube is about the most boring thing ever - while the top of a bus can be ok, although slower. After all, tourists pay good money for bus tours of London. ;-) But of course if simply commuting, speed is likely the essence.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Metroland. ;-)

[Richard]

Moral of the story - make yourself less unattractive.

[Mr Pounder Esquire]

There is a Mrs Pounder Esquire.

[Davey]

Around here, it seems as though Volvo Estates, driven by women, and with a ton of stuff in the back, need to park at an angle, so blocking the parking places on both sides. This is worse at Tesco, which has narrower parking places than anywhere else, except for those at the new Aldi, which are equally tiny, but the Volvos seem to stay away from there.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Impossible with one so gifted from birth.

[tim.....]

They have this at what used to be my local Lidl, which (as I suspect is the case at CJ) is close to the other shops in town

Check out staff never prompted for car details, it was for you to remember to tell them.

A large percentage of shoppers are walk ins from the rest of the high street so it would be pointless for them to ask everybody. I used to be one of those walk ins, but the last time I went there by car and I was the only person in line who asked to register my number.

At the towns where Lidl are sited away from the main shopping area they don't have this "verity at the till" system (though they still have the time limit)

tim

[tim.....]

bit of an unreasonable restriction for a hospital visit though, isn't it

tim

[tim.....]

where the Lidl car park is the only source of free parking within walking distance of the high street, if they didn't operate this scheme the only workable alternative is to make everybody pay

beware what you wish for

tim

[ARW]

Do you have bigger t*ts than her?

[tim.....]

the legal basis is that it's more expensive for the company to collect the required evidence that they have complied with all the rules on "private parking enforcement" than to let you off. So they let you off. (Of course it could be that they may have started to compile that evidence only to discover that they don't have it - I couldn't possible comment)

Unless you just happen to be the one that they chose to take to court to remind all the numpties who maintain that "they have no right to "fine" you", that they do, in fact have that right (if they have complied with all the rules on "private parking enforcement" etc, etc)

tim

[tim.....]

yes they are (subject to satisfactory signage etc)

Oh yes it can

[tim.....]

Beavis has been found in favour of the parking company at the appeal court, as such is precedence creating and applies everywhere (in England)

The Supreme count have heard Beavis' (2nd) appeal and the world is awaiting their response.

(After that there's nowhere else to go - this isn't a subject likely to get a very positive response for a hearing at the European court)

tim

[tim.....]

The cleaning materials in particular

and as I don't eat it I don't care if it doesn't taste (smell) as nice, as long as it does the job as well (it does)

tim

[Tough Guy no. 1265]

Probably full of immigrunts.

[Tough Guy no. 1265]

In your job you can be flexible about th time you travel at.

[Andy Burns]

Happened the other way round here ... the council car parks used to be free until a few years ago, independent bakery became a Gregs, two larger Waitroses opened within driving range, so the tiny Waitrose is no longer the draw it used to be, and the range of shops generally is less attractive.

Then Aldi opened, if they hadn't gone with a CCTV scheme I daresay motorists would inundate their car park rather than paying for the council one.