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Letter: New Car Park Scheme Will Not Be Staffed Sufficiently For Effective Enforcement
Published on: 12 Jul, 2018
Updated on: 13 Jul, 2018
From David Scotland
In response to: Cameras Installed to Monitor New Car Parking Charge Regimes
These parking spaces will never ever make any money if monitored correctly; which I doubt they will be – it will be run on trust and a wing and a prayer.
Let us put a very conservative estimate of the spaces at Newlands Corner at 100. Every visitor gets 20 minutes free, requiring, for effective enforcement, the start of each 20 minute period to be recorded.
If we assume it takes an enforcement officer 20 seconds to record a car and move along, it means at the 60th car the officer has taken 20 minutes and therefore should be back to check car the first car recorded, and so on.
So either 40 cars go unchecked or there are a rolling 40 cars that are checked late. Therefore, to cover the 100 spaces at all times, you would need two civil enforcement at least, full time.
As the spaces at Newlands Corner are probably closer to 200, the scheme will never be staffed sufficiently.
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Jim Allen
July 13, 2018 at 9:28 am
The maths are not difficult. Here is another example: The Aldi 77 parking space car park in Burpham has 580,000 visitors to a store open 12 hours for 364 days a year.
This allows just 34 minutes average parking time but average times for supermarket parking is 45 minutes (https://www.statista.com/statistics/412514/shopping-time-spent-by-location-great-britain-uk/) so the result is the parking problem we have in Burpham.
Never trust SCC to be able to do any maths.
Martin Elliott
July 14, 2018 at 6:55 am
Or perhaps we have been misled by statements that the cameras are only there as security for signs and meters.
I don’t see multi-lens boxes being needed for such a small area of surveillance. They seem to be set to cover the whole hard stand area of carparks.
There can be only one conclusion. Like supermarket, motorway, etc carparks the cameras are part of an ANPR surveillance system, with computer logging to track cars against tickets.
Stand by for a system where you have to prove you weren’t there when the computer says you were.