Adur and Worthing Council now charging for bike parking

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I’m not sure how many members are close enough to the south coast if England to be visiting Shoreham-by Sea and Lancing but beware the council car parks that are now charging for motorcycles.

(This is good time to remind people that you can add your neck of the woods to the Users Map. It’s interesting to see how far and wide the forum spreads.)

Anyway, the bit that got me is their reasoning for charging the bikes:

“Last year, we spent more than £140,000 monitoring, maintaining and improving our off-street car parks across Adur for users, but motorcyclists did not help fund that work at all.”

I’m sure we can think of many counter arguments to that, starting with reduced congestion and the fact we don’t need big parking areas in the first place.

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Well, I’d never want to visit their scabby district anyway, so it won’t affect me, but it’s a bad precedent.

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What a bunch of twarts…

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A thin end of the wedge I fear, as many other councils will be looking at this policy with interest.

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Classic short sighted council attitude.
Motorcyclists will just avoid the area and local businesses will suffer.

The only place locally I know with a parking charge for motorcycles is in the square at Helmsley. You can get a 20 minute free ticket at the machine but most don’t bother and just keep an eye out for the traffic warden.

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