On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:34:04 +0000, The Medway Handyman wrote:

> Andy Burns wrote:
>> On 03/11/09 19:27, Tim W wrote:
>>
>>> And there should be a bloody law against both pay and display and
>>> machines that don't give change.
>>
>> Wouldn't be so bad if they gave you extra time pro-rata for the change
>> they'd withheld, e.g council ones here used to be 60p/hour but if you
>> put in a quid, no change and you still only got an hour - no wonder
>> people quite happily give their "non-transferable" ticket to someone
>> else on the way out.
> 
> I've complained to Medway Council about that.  Apparently they don't
> have the technology.  Must be real rocket science to build a machine
> that give change or extra time.

Tell them to look at the ones Canterbury City Council use in some of 
their car parks. The big one off St Radigunds has machines that give you 
time for whatever amount you put in, AFAIR.



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