This morning, went into the town centre early to collect something from a shop and had to park in the multistory as the high street closed for the day for an event.
Ok with that, but the council car parks have now gone over to pay and display, so some one parking has to take a guess on the maximum time they will be, instead of paying only for the time used, even if it is in hourly increments.
Paid for one hour and pressed button for ticket, got ticket for half hour as the final 10 p for the cost of £2.10 did not register, so had to pay again. no sir, no refund possible said the friendly traffic person who just happened to be passing to "check the cars"
So, got my purchase and then later drove off 15 miles ti Ipswich to do the rest of the shopping we wanted,and surprise surprise, where colchester charge £2.10 an hour on saturdays, Ipswich is a quid an hour.
As we live close to the new junction on the A12 by the park and ride, it is easier to go east tio Ipswich than to try to get down to pass the bottleneck of the bridge at Colchster railway centre.
A coomon complaint from our new neighbours today seems to be that Colchester do not want shoppers in the town and actively discourage car use by these means.
I find it daft as when I can take the bus for "ordinary shopping" it is indeed colchest who pay for my transport via the oap bus pass.
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