CBD may lose another big carpark with 1,000 parking spaces. Apply for a season carpark lot while you still can, as attaining a coveted spot at one of the most popular parking facilities in Raffles Place - Golden Shoe Car Park (above) - may soon become a near-impossible task. With a lenthy estimated waiting time ranging from six months to a year, Golden Shoe Car Park - a CapitaCommercial Trust (CCT) asset that offers around 1,000 carpark spaces - is unquestionably one of the most highly sought after season parking facilities in the central business district (CBD). For the full article click here

 

The cost of parking is frozen to help retailers. County Hall has frozen on-street car parking prices in Preston – and says it urged district councils to do the same. Bosses at Lancashire County Council (LCC) said they decided not to increase its pay-and-display fees for Preston and Lancaster city centres this year over concern for the impact on retailers. The move comes a few weeks after Preston Council agreed to hike up prices in its off-street car parks. For the full article click here

Motorists in Brentwood get the most parking tickets. Wednesday, February 01, 2012Brentwood GazetteFollow MOTORISTS in Brentwood had to pay £219,050 in parking fines between April and October last year – making them the most penalised in south Essex, writes Piers Meyler. But the South Essex Parking Partnership, which Brentwood Borough Council is part of and which is in charge of parking enforcement in the town, has said law-breaking motorists have only themselves to blame. For the full article click here

It’s official: women are actually  better parkers than men. After years of debate and banter, comes the news that will have men running for cover. It’s now official;  women are actually better parkers than men. The month-long study published today looked at various aspects of parking, including technique, accuracy  and time taken, in order to produce a ‘parking coefficient’, a score of how good their parking was. In  addition, drivers were questioned about their parking beliefs and behaviours. For the full article click here

TagMaster RFID products have been used for more than a year in conjunction with FuelZone Transit,   an automated fuel management system from Coencorp, at all six Coast Mountain Bus Co. (CMBC) service locations in Canada.  Based in Burnaby, British Columbia, CMBC says it connects the region by providing “a customer-centric transportation network that values safety and excellence and strives to be a leader in environmental performance.” 

Businesses to face levy on parking. Businesses would be charged for parking spaces they provide to their staff under proposals being considered by the Labour Party. The Labour group in Edinburgh, which is currently the second-largest party in the City Chambers, would look into the possibility of a “workplace parking levy” to raise money for transport improvements and reduce congestion if it came into power after May’s local elections. Nottingham is the only city in the UK to have such a levy in place already and it charges £288 to businesses for every parking space they make available for staff, which will raise £100 million in a decade. For the full article click here

Mexico City's parking space holders in a tight spot. The franeleros, who block off spaces and charge a few cents per car, are being forced out by newly installed parking meters in an upscale Mexico City district. For the full article click here

 

Man beats 25 Greenwich parking tickets due to 'unenforceable' road markings. NEXT time you get a parking ticket, you may want to check the road markings carefully. By spotting two rogue white lines, one Charlton lawyer claims to have beaten 25 parking tickets which were issued to him and his friends over the past year. James Necker and pals were hit with the tickets, costing up to £130 each, at Park Vista, Greenwich, as they headed to favourite boozer the Plume of Feathers. But when Mr Necker, 36, of Fairthorn Road, examined the parking regulations he noticed that there were broken double white lines at the end of the road’s long multi-vehicle parking bays. For the full article click here

Cashless parking system rolled out in Northern Ireland. A new system which allows motorists to pay for parking without cash is to implemented in towns across Northern Ireland. The cashless parking payment scheme involves a short phone call at the start and end of a parking session. Payment is taken on either a credit or debit card at the end of the month.  For the full article click here

 

FlashPark Responds to Welsh Parking Ticket Complaints. The British private parking enforcement agency FlashPark has announced that it will resolve problems relating to the issuance of parking tickets in Wales that are only written in English. Private parking enforcement agency FlashPark has reacted swiftly to language problems over parking tickets issued in the English language in Wales. This follows a complaint by Noel Jones, 54, and his daughter Bethan, 26, who were handed the ticket after using the car park at Penrhyndeudraeth village Memorial Hall. The pair, whose first language is Welsh, stated they feel it is unfair that their ticket - along with the parking signs around the car park - are displayed in English and have refused to pay until they receive acknowledgement of the parking transgression in their native Welsh. Many of the signs in the area surrounding the hall are provided in both Welsh and English. But according to reports from the Memorial Hall committee, there had previously been Welsh signs in place in the car park but they had been vandalised. For the full article click here

 

Cashless parking system rolled out. A cashless parking payment system is to be extended to towns across Northern Ireland. Motorists in Newry, Derry, Lisburn and Omagh will be able to use credit or debit cards, said Regional Development Minister Danny Kennedy. He said: "The scheme provides a viable alternative to coins at parking machines, allowing a credit/debit card payment substitute and it gives people a convenient way to extend their parking stay." For the full article click here

West End parking plan 'cost Westminster Council £1m'London's West End parking "fiasco" has cost taxpayers £1m, the local Labour Party has alleged. Plans to charge for Sunday and evening parking were abandoned by Conservative-run Westminster Council on Wednesday after prolonged protests. For the full article click here

New Baltimore officials define what a commercial vehicle is. On Jan. 9 the New Baltimore City Council adopted an ordinance that better defines what a commercial vehicle is and parking restrictions related to them. According to the ordinance, a commercial vehicle can be defined as one with a capacity over three-quarters of a ton that is used for commercial purposes; a trailer, regardless of size and attachment, used for hauling or storage; and any type of vehicle such as a stake truck, an ice cream truck, a dump truck or a catering truck. The only exception is a one-ton truck that is used by an owner or occupant of a residential property in the city. For the full article click here

West End parking plan 'cost Westminster Council £1m' London's West End parking "fiasco" has cost taxpayers £1m, the local Labour Party has alleged. Plans to charge for Sunday and evening parking were abandoned by Conservative-run Westminster Council on Wednesday after prolonged protests. Westminster Labour says a total of £1m was spent on preparation for the parking scheme that never was. For the full article click here

 

Parking tyrants who make our lives a misery. A shock outbreak of common sense at Westminster council: its mulish leader, having alienated theatres, restaurateurs, No 10, the Mayor, the Evening Standard and just about everyone who wants to spend time in the borough in the evenings, has departed. Colin Barrow apparently wanted to "change gear", a well-chosen metaphor for the chap deterring drivers with unnecessary parking charges after dusk. But the uneasy question this case leaves behind is why bodies whose purpose is to serve the public so readily behave in ways which alienate and inconvenience us. For the full article click here

Rage at Sunday parking tariff - RESIDENTS have launched a scathing attack on the council for introducing Sunday parking charges which they claim have “done a great job for the post office”.  John Jewson, of Edenbridge Road, Enfield, has slammed Enfield Council for putting the high street at risk by driving shoppers “away from the town and towards online shopping”. The retired ambulance driver told the Advertiser: “People are not prepared to pay the extra money to park on a Sunday and so, quite simply more and more people will go online to buy things rather than walk round the shops.”  For the full article click here

 

Bristol's first car parking camera comes into force. Officers will issue warnings for the first two weeks, with fines being introduced from 30 January. Bristol's first mobile enforcement car has taken to the roads to catch drivers who park illegally outside the city's schools, hospitals and taxi ranks. The £36,4000 vehicle, which will be in action seven-days-a-week, is armed with a camera which will also snap people who park on bus stops and loading bays. For the full article click here

Pilot mechanised carparks in HDB estates by year-end. SINGAPORE: The authorities are targeting to do pilot tests of mechanised parking systems in housing estates by year-end. The tests would likely be conducted in older estates with space constraints. The Housing and Development Board (HDB) and the Government Parliamentary Committee (GPC) for National Development are jointly studying automated solutions to overcome the parking woes. The system being looked at involves vertically stacking vehicles with lifts to maximise use of land. For the full article click here

Westminster chief underestimated loss of parking spaces by five times. Campaigners today demanded a top-level inquiry into how Westminster council underestimated the number of parking bays threatened by its planned "nightlife tax" by 500 per cent. The Evening Standard revealed yesterday that while the official figure used throughout the public consultation into plans to replace single-yellow lines with pay & display bays across the West End was 1,700, the true number is more than 8,400. For the full article click here

Disabled Parking Probe Uncovers Huge Rise In Number Of False Badges Across Glasgow. THERE may be thousands of fake disabled parking badges in the city, the Glaswegian has learned. An investigation has discovered a huge increase in blue badges with incorrect details. Officials from the National Fraud Initiative found 2322 badges with problems, 1948 of them “high priority”. For the full article click here

Rail parking in London is 'rip off' - TSSA union. The Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA) said daily car parking charges at Kidbrooke, in south-east London, increased from £3.50 to £4.50 - a 30% rise. The union said other stations had seen increases of 50p a day. A Southeastern Rail spokesman said most car parks remained unchanged. For the full article click here

 

Solving ‘creative’ parking in Hong Kong. In this bustling megapolis, China’s free port and host city to global trade and commerce, “creative” or illegal parking is as much an art, and a problem, as it is in Metro Manila. According to an article in the Sunday Morning Post, suggestions offered by the police to solve the traffic problems caused by creative parking, especially in the Central district, were dismissed by the Transport Department. Last month, the police department fielded 400 officers to crack down on creative parking in Central and Kowloon that resulted in an increase in the issuance of parking tickets. In one day alone in Kowloon, police issued 302 tickets for illegal parking and other parking offenses. For the full article click here

 

Hefty parking fee recommended for on-street parking. The Directorate of Urban Land Transport (DULT) has, in its draft parking policy for Bangalore, recommended that Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) make the fee for on-street parking expensive to discourage private transport. Speaking at a public consultation, “Combating Traffic Congestion in Bangalore, An Alternative Vision”, DULT Commissioner V. Manjula said that on-street parking should be costlier than off-street parking to encourage people to use parking lots. Another recommendation to curb the proliferation of cars was to insist on proof of parking space to get a new car registered in Bangalore, Ms. Manjula said. For the full article click here

Private business coining it with parking system. The money that Joburgers are paying for parking is mostly going to go into the coffers of a private business. A Star investigation into the city’s new parking meter system, which is to be extended into 18 suburbs over the next year, shows that the company responsible for the implementation, Ace Parking Services, is set to coin hundreds of millions of rand in Joburg alone – even if only 4 500 bays are allocated. For the full article click here

 

'Arrogant' chief of Westminster parking change urged to resign. The leader of Westminster council today faced resignation demands over his "arrogant" handling of planned West End parking charges. In an open letter published in today's Standard, Westminster's Labour group head Paul Dimoldenberg said Colin Barrow had lost the "trust and confidence of the vast majority of West End residents and business people". For the full article click here

 

Westminster parking: Lines converted to double yellows. Nearly a fifth of the single yellow lines in central London are being converted into double lines. Conservative-run Westminster Council said single lines next to dropped kerbs would become double lines to aid pedestrians. However, Labour councillors said this would mean far fewer parking spaces in the West End on evenings and weekends. In December, the council postponed plans to start charging for parking in the area at off-peak times. For the full article click here

Restaurants boss and Tessa Jowell lead West End parking fight. eading a new legal challenge to the planned removal of more than 1,000 West End parking spaces by Westminster council. The owner of landmarks such as The Ivy, J Sheekey and Le Caprice will seek to block the council's move to convert stretches of single yellow lines to doubles in the High Court next week. It is the second legal challenge to the Tory-run authority's clampdown on parking in the West End. A judicial review of proposed evening and Sunday parking charges of up to £4.80 an hour is due to be heard in March. For the full article click here

Blue badge-holders to pay for parking on Suffolk coast. Disabled visitors to Woodbridge will have to pay to use council car parks from April. Suffolk Coastal District Council has approved the plans which also include increased charges at town centre car parks and the introduction of parking fees in Framlingham. The council said the measures would save £362,000 from its budget. For the full article click here

Exorbitant parking fee at PSKs. If you thought obtaining an appointment for submitting an application at the Passport Seva Kendra (PSK) was a challenge, then parking your vehicle at the PSK could not only be difficult but also burn your pockets. Taking advantage of “No Parking” boards displayed at Begumpet PSK, contractors are fleecing applicants by charging exorbitant fares. The contractor is charging Rs.10 per hour for a two-wheeler and Rs.30 for a four-wheeler. Authorities have failed to provide sufficient parking facility at the PSKs. “It takes not less than three hours to complete submission process at these kendras and we have to shell out Rs.100. For the full article click here

Parking crackdown is ‘blatant opportunism’ PARKING wardens have been accused of “blatant opportunism” after scores of motorists were slapped with tickets early on New Year’s Day. Frank Jensen, of The Drakes, Shoebury, was one of the drivers who assumed on-street parking in Southend would be free as it was New Year’s Day and a Sunday. Mr Jensen, 52, drove into Southend to go shopping and left his car in Warrior Square. When he returned two hours later, he found he had been charged along with about 15 other cars parked in the street. For the full article click here

 

Finally, Udyog Vihar to have parking lot. GURGAON: It has been a long time coming. Theindustrial development corporation is finally making parking arrangements for Udyog Vihar, the prime industrial area of the city without a single designated facility for parking as yet. For the full article click here

Carindale commuters told to park at QSAC. The state government is standing firm against building a park'n'ride facility at Carindale, insisting bus feeder routes provide good connections from all surrounding suburbs. Formally rejecting petitions bearing 1650 signatures, Transport Minister Annastacia Palaszczuk yesterday pointed to other park'n'ride facilities “near Carindale” including Sleeman Sports Complex at Chandler (about four kilometres away by road), Cannon Hill K-Mart Plaza (five kilometres) and the Queensland Sports and Athletics Centre at Nathan (10 kilometres. For the full article click here

Drivers face fine for parking on pavements in Southend. DRIVERS could soon be fined for parking on pavements in Southend. Southend Council has proposed introducing tough new restrictions which would penalise anybody who left one or more wheel resting on the footway in a targeted street – regardless of whether it featured yellow lines. The council claims the practice damages the pavements and costs it thousands of pounds a year in repairs. For the full article click here

Outrage at five-fold rise in fee for disabled parking Blue Badge in crack down on fraud. Old handwritten pass being replaced by electronic permit. Ministers hope new 'secure as a banknote' badge will reduce fraud. For the full article click here

 

 

 

Barnet's parking woes continue into new year. TRADERS across Barnet have vowed to continue to fight the council's pay-by-phone parking scheme into the new year. North Finchley trader Helen Michaels and High Barnet Trader's Association chair Gail Laser met over the Christmas break to discuss the next move in a joint campaign for all Barnet traders established earlier this month. Ms Michaels said: "We are trying to encourage all traders who feel strongly about this to come forward and join us. For the full article click here

 

 

Councillor wins parking fine notice in Welsh fight. A Gwynedd councillor says he is delighted an operator has agreed to make parking fine notifications available in the Welsh language after a 12-month campaign. Dyfed Edwards accepted he left his car in a non-parking area at Bangor railway station in November 2010. But he refused to pay the fine until the notice was issued in Welsh. In a letter to the councillor, NCP said future notices would be available in Welsh upon written request. For the full article click here

 

TagMaster   announced last month that South Africa’s Port of Durban Container Terminal had selected its CombiTag Classic RFID tags, which combine short-range identification based on proximity technology by HID Global and long-range ID technology by TagMaster. This is the latest in a number of deployments made by TagMaster partner Camco Technologies at Durban Pier1 and Port Elizabeth

 Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell has been named to the advisory board of Pango Shyyny USA. The company, which provides pay-by-phone solutions for on- and off-street parking, recently entered the US market; it was introduced in Israel in 2007. Said CEO Dani Shavit: “Ed Rendell brings a wealth of knowledge, experience and pre-existing relationships that will help us” in reaching new markets and municipalities in the US.  “Pango is an excellent system for municipalities to increase revenue and manage parking assets more effectively and efficiently,” Rendell said

HDB to build 1,600 car park lots next year. TO better address parking needs, the Housing Development Board (HDB) will build 1,600 car park lots next year, and will study the use of high-rise mechanised parking systems for older HDB estates. The new lots to be constructed next year are in addition to the 3,400 lots built in the last two years; the lots cost $66 million to build in total. In addition, HDB has been asked to study the feasibility of implementing mechanised parking systems, and evaluate the different technologies available, said National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan in his latest blog post. For the full article click here 

PARKING WARDENS RETURN TO THE STREETS. THE army of parking wardens destined to bring order to the parking free-for-all in Hexham will soon be on the march. For the Department if Transport has finally given the go-ahead for Northumberland County Council to enforce on-street parking restrictions in the town. For the full article click here