http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: parking workplace - Recent Topics en Sun, 31 May 2026 17:00:01 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17937#post-255251 Mon, 17 Jul 2017 10:34:08 +0000 kaputnik 255251@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-40628560" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-40628560</a></p> <p>Selected highlights below;</p> <p><em>On Friday, a judge at Cardiff Civil Justice Centre ruled private company Indigo could collect the charges from University Hospital of Wales staff. The ruling means 78 people must pay £128 per outstanding ticket. Campaigner Sue Prior said one nurse had tickets amounting to £150,000.</p> <p>Staff nurse Felicity Richards added: "I have to allow 45 minutes to an hour extra to park my car every morning to find somewhere to park.</p> <p>"By the time I get into work there are usually no parking spaces and I have to park off site and quite often I have to park a 20 to 25 minutes walk away."</p> <p>Ms Prior said staff had permits which allowed them to park in designated areas for £1.05 a day. But she said a lack of spaces meant staff had been forced to park in unauthorised areas.</em></p> <p>It's an emotive subject, I know. But.</p> <p>1 - do we assume that 100% of hospital staff who wish to park their cars at their place of work should be able to do so 100% of the time at a free or subsidised rate.</p> <p>2 - If it's taking you 45 minutes to get your car parked in the morning, at what point do you decide that perhaps there may be an alternative 1 or 2 days a week.</p> <p>This is a major hospital in central Cardiff that seems well served by buses and has 2 train stations on different lines &lt;1 mile away. It's not like there can't be alternatives, even if they could be improved. </p>