Long time …
Wow! Two months have gone by. A mixture of holiday and catching up after holiday. And running out of things I haven’t alread posted about.
Parking. Having only a modestly sized van, and using a motorbike occasionally, I sometimes forget to ask about parking and, as I think I may have mentioned already, I get slightly peeved to discover that there’s no parking at all at the customer’s.
This time it was an appointment I’d forgotten. In fact I think the customer must have been making it up as I’ve still not recalled or found the job sheet for the job they said I’d missed. Anyway I apologized and said that I’d be there as fast as I could. “What’s the address?” Well the address in question was a major road with absolutely no chance of parking so I asked about parking. “There isn’t any”, came the reply, “You’ll have to use the Residents Only bays in the side streets.”
“Ah”, said I, “you have a visitors permit I can use then?”
“No.”
I told them I’d call that evening.
Par of the reason it’s so bad there, is that it’s Lambeth. Third worst borough in London in my opinion. Neighboring Wandsworth makes nearly all bays Pay or Permit, apart from where all the councillors live, where it does tend to be Permit Only. Wandsworth also has free bike parking. Lambeth though makes the majority of its bay Permit Only; and it doesn’t allow bikes in bays; and Lambeth’s Reserved for Solo Motorcycle bays are very few and far between.
