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| Originally Posted by kuki9591 Am off to Stoney on Sunday and thought with the cold weather we have been having I would prebook at parking space so I would not have to get up at silly o'clock and try to get some sleep in the car.
Whilst I am not keen about paying £10, between two of us it's not so bad. But it did get me thinking, if Stoney extended the scheme to the entire bottom car park, it would make things easier for everyone.
People that have booked do not need to get up at silly oclock, people that have not booked do not have to get up at silly oclock because they know they have no chance of getting into the bottom carpark, local residents would not get upset with people turning up at silly o'clock.
Granted Stoney would make a fair bit of money, but then they are a business at the end of the day.
As an alternative to extending the scheme, what about introducing a scheme where only cars with more than one person are permitted to use the lower carpark.
So what does the YD massive think of the idea? love it hate it?
Mike |
I used to think that one way of sorting out the weekend parking issue, and encourage diverlog membership, would be to give priority in the bottom carpark to diverlog holders. But as i thought about it a bit more, i thought perhaps all that does is shift the problem. It is what they have done at Vobster. The bottom car park is tiny (in comparison to Stoney), and you can't reserve a space in it unless you are a member - which is fair enough. So I don't go to Vobster because the other benefits doesn't make it worthwhile, and there is no way I am hiking up and down that hill which makes Stoney's cardiac hill look like a walk in the park
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It makes sense for Stoney to have an almost unlimited number of prebooking spaces available, it is much safer for divers not to have a stupidly early start when they are diving.
The idea of only letting multi user cars in the bottom car park is not brilliant, though. It might be a 'green policy' but if my buddy comes from a long way off, i would be a bit miffed if we were both stuck in the upper car park just because i drove alone.