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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
I worked at QPH(now RBH) from 1977-2002.....initially parking was free......but there was an awful lot of car crime.......mindless vandalism...windows broken......things stolen from Vehicles and vehicles stolen too.
Then the Hospital decided they would charge for parking, but they would plough the money back into the car parks....they employed site staff.....installed high power lighting (which made me feel a lot safer after coming off a late shift)....and latterly CCTV cameras.
The car crime dropped to almost zero.
The security staff who manned the car parks were pleasant and helpful.....would tell you if you had left your lights on(no coming off duty finding you had a flat battery)....and would help you in all kinds of circumstances.
So while at the start I begrudged paying in order for me to go to work, I came to see that I felt safer and felt that my vehicle was more secure....so in the end I accepted the charges.
In those days there wasn't the same volume of traffic wanting spaces and if you paid your monthly fee you knew you had somewhere safe to park.
If you don't like paying the fees then it is simple.......catch the bus. I think that is an equally expensive and time consuming occupation.
If you have a car, you know that Road tax, Insurance and parking charges are a fact of life....you have to live with it.
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The argument at hand though was not that a parking fee is in place, its that disabled users don't have to pay.