Bike parking charging is a problem we can't solve. We'll get no backing from car drivers - they have to pay a fortune, so why shouldn't we? - and despite help from cabbies and Westminster residents and shopkeepers, the Westminster campaign failed because the council could easily demonstrate how much extra money they'd pull in during a lean time. No council in the world is going to turn that opportunity down.
And so the parking charge will roll out across the country as sure as eggs is eggs. And all those people who say 'it doesn't affect me' will be crying about how much it's costing them soon. Tough shit buddy, you should have joined us when you had the chance.
4000+ bikers descended on Westminster during the heat of the campaign, but if the lazy bastards who said 'it won't affect me' had joined in we could have been 10,000 strong, and no council could have ignored us. But you were sat on your arses. Now the parking charge is spreading, and in five years' time every biker will have to pay in every town, because every council will adopt this easy moneymaking scheme.
Don't come here bleating about it, cos you had your chance to do something.
Posted: 02/07/2012 at 06:51
