I know this one has been "worked over" before - if not on here, then "over there" - but it raises my blood pressure every time.
The headline is: "Hospitals earn millions from parking fines"
tiny.cc/xj992
Perhaps some public-spirited individual should attach stickers to the tariff signs saying, in essence, "You don't have to pay these outrageous charges - you are advised to defy any attempt to impose a penalty if you fail to pay."
I know there is the issue of clamping and, where this is happening, defiance is probably unwise. Let's just have a law to ban clamping as soon as possible. I realise also that some hospital car parks are administered by local councils, where defiance is illegal as well as pointless.
(The reasons this gets me going are memories of my father's and then my mother's lengthy stays in hospital, preceding the deaths of both, and the parking issues at the hospice where I now work, whose site we share with the local NHS hospital.)
Last edited by: ChrisPeugeot on Wed 9 Jun 10 at 15:12
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