A DRIVER is fuming after a parking lot meter charged her £60 - and claimed her motor had been there for greater than FIFTY years.
Suzy Jennifer was shocked when the meter urged she had been parked at Salisbury District Hospital, Wilts, since 1970.
She is one in every of a string of tourists complaining concerning the newly-installed ticket machines outdoors the hospital.
Suzy mentioned: "After I tried to pay, the system advised me I owed £56 and had been there since 1970.
"Contemplating I wasn’t born, then it’s fairly good going to have the ability to have parked my automobile there."
And he or she posted a photograph of the machine's display exhibiting the £56 cost on the Salisbury Journal Fb web page.
One other customer, Karen Swinger, needed to take care of the brand new "nightmare" ticket machines in automobile park two on the hospital after attending an eye fixed clinic on February 9.
Contemplating I wasn’t born, then it’s fairly good going to have the ability to have parked my automobile there.
Suzy Jennifer
She mentioned she had solely been capable of enter three characters of her automobile registration.
Karen, who lives within the metropolis, downloaded the Apcoa Join app to pay for her two-and-a-half-hour parking session however claims the automated numberplate recognition hadn't picked up her automobile as she got here in.
And he or she was unable to pay the £4.50 charge, which left her 'fully stressed'.
She mentioned, "It is simply fully out of order.
"I needed to drive out panicking and considering I will get a effective as a result of I could not pay for my parking."
PARKED OFF
Karen mentioned there have been 'two or three' different individuals left confused on the parking machine in the identical scenario.
She continued: "It is an absolute nightmare for individuals.
"They need to kind it and pre-warn individuals."
After going contained in the hospital to ask for assist, Karen claims the receptionist mentioned it 'will not be our drawback'.
Shockingly, different guests have had related issues.
Tracy Jackson mentioned: "Queues into the street on the machines, couldn’t obtain the app as no sign, the machine didn’t recognise our reg, so lastly managed to pay however appeared very unfair as others didn’t and you could possibly nonetheless depart the automobile park!"
A spokesperson from the hospital apologised: "if anybody has been inconvenienced."
"The brand new parking course of permits guests and sufferers to pay in numerous other ways, which embody money, card and on-line.
"The hourly charges haven't modified and there's no cost for the primary half-hour to permit individuals to drop off and acquire.
"Blue Badge holders proceed to obtain free parking and Blue Badges might be validated on-line, which is a once-only motion, or for six months on the Major Reception, the Cashiers Workplace or Services HQ.
"Extra places to validate blue badges, together with the Spinal Unit, the Hospice and the PALS workplace, are being added to make accessibility simpler. Reductions for these making frequent journeys to the hospital apply as earlier than."
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