OT: Disc Parking

If you Google for "disc parking" you might be surprised...

If you really want to avoid the places that use them you may as well sell the car :-)

Chris

That's pretty much the case but I have appealed which was rejected. Now I'm in two minds as to whether or not to chance it :)

We have those here in MK as well.

Peter.

I guess it depends on whether the words "Disc Parking" on their own with no explanation constitutes poor signing!

Thanks,

Peter.

Yup, unless of course parking attendants give you enough time to have procured a disk and the signs clearly explain that you need on and where to get them from.

Indeed :) Seems very draconian.

Peter.

I would think it would need more signs than that to be valid quite honestly.

I wonder how many visitors get caught?

Chris

Excellent link, thanks :)

According to the rejection letter disc parking is a nationally recognised parking scheme. Yeah, right :)

Check out the link to the forum I posted in the original post. It's not just visitors!

Peter.

'didnt think' being the operative statement IMHO.

If I'd seen such a sign I too wouldn't have had a clue what is was - so I would've looked at all the other cars in similarly marked bays for any clues or, failing that, gone elsewhere. It clearly means 'something' so why chance parking there without doing anything?

Mathew

Never seen it, never heard of it. Sounds a bit Terry Pratchett for my liking.

Had I encountered it, then I would have made damn sure I knew what it meant and what I was supposed to do before I parked the car. If I couldn't do that to my satisfaction, then I wouldn't have left the car there, because doing so would potentially give someone carte blanche to ticket me. As you have discovered.

Lets put it this way, they've disc parking in Bridlington and=20 Scarborough too.

In fact, a lot of tourist destinations are using disc parking schemes=20 to give the locals a chance to be able to park between April and=20 September.

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If it just said 'Disc Parking' - it's a bit vague to those that don't know. There *should* be another sign nearby, which perhaps there is, and was missed by the opening poster. I'd pay the £30 personally though, and also write explaining the lack of signage.

Personally, I would have read it as "you need a disk if you're going to park here for more than 2 hours"

Yes, there's a number of ways one could have read it :) However

I reckon Conor is wrong in his assertion that it's a nationally recognised scheme, going by some of the replies here I'd class it as regionally recognised!

Peter.

Have you Googled it? It appears that many regions of the country use it in one form or another.

Chris

Yes.... my logic there is based on indications that many regions don't (hence it's not national) combined with that a few people here have posted that they'd never heard of it before.

Peter.

In what publication is it listed?

I have never seen a 'disc parking' sign. Admittedly, I have lived a sheltered life, mostly travelling between Edinburgh, Glasgow, and bits of Fife.