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    Käufer sagen „das ist ein Witz“, als das Trafford Centre die Preise für den ersten kostenpflichtigen Parkplatz bekannt gibt


    Käufer sagen „das ist ein Witz“, als das Trafford Centre die Preise für den ersten kostenpflichtigen Parkplatz bekannt gibt

    https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/shopping/shoppers-say-its-joke-trafford-30409359

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    17 Comments

    1. Pottrescu on

      £4 an hour weekdays, £7 on a weekend. Just to save your eyes from being poisoned by a “newspaper” website. I swear these articles are just created to sell advertising space.

    2. citruspers2929 on

      This seems like a great idea to me. Free car park for those who don’t want to pay. Premium car park for those who want bigger spaces in the best location. Seems win-win 🤷‍♂️

    3. TulipTatsyrup on

      The Traffird Centre would have to pay me to shop there.

      I would rather eat my own liver with a rusty spoon than subject myself to that experience again.

    4. Mountain_Bag_2095 on

      Seems okay to me a bit pay to win but whatever if you want a bigger space closer to the doors you can pay for it. Car parks already operate premium spaces in the city centre and that doesn’t seem to bother anyone.

    5. CurtisInCamden on

      Why shouln’t people pay for parking? So much land and other public subsidies go into enabling low-cost car travel whilst everything else in life keeps going up in price. Taxes rise every year, rail fares rise every year, but fuel duty and petrol prices haven’t risen in almost a decade and a half. Isn’t exactly fair or equitable.

    6. Skippymabob on

      I think I’m just being dumb, can someone explain to me why this is news

      Like, is paying for parking not already a thing?

    7. Beaky_Knucklewart on

      The hourly rate reduces the longer you stay. To get the best rate, you have to stay 12 hours.

      That’s 12 hours. At a shopping centre.

      £14 weekdays, £21 weekends.

    8. tdrules on

      Trafford Centre has 11,500 car parking spaces, the vast majority of which are free.

    9. Hayley-The-AnCom on

      Not even close to the first pay for car park in the country shopping centre 20 minutes from mine has had one for 15 years at least

    10. morewhitenoise on

      I found myself at the trafford centre by accident this summer (going to outbreak fest) and i couldnt believe it was a real place that could exist in the UK. Insane.

    11. KeyLog256 on

      The Trafford Centre has the most expensive parking of any shopping destination in all of Greater Manchester, and most of it is still free. We’re frankly spoiled given parking in Manchester City Centre is insanely expensive, and oddly double your average parking price in Liverpool.  

      There’s still literal hectares of free parking right outside it.

      Edit – to also add how fucked this story and the complaints about it are. You can park 20 seconds walk from the doors (I did last week) for free, then walk inside and spend £23,000 on a Rolex GMT Master if you so wish (I didn’t do this, just to make clear!)

      You have to pay park when visiting a relative who is dying in your local hospital.

    12. eyupfatman on

      I hate shopping, so I’m happy to be able to sit on my sofa in my underpants and just click a few times for the items to be delivered next day for around the same price of a couple of hours parking.

      Cheaper, fewer people, less traffic, fewer tramps, more time for me.

      I haven’t been to the “high street” for many years. Can’t imagine wasting what little time off work I have walking around crappy expensive shops.

    13. barcap on

      > It will cost from £4 an hour to park there on weekdays, and from £7 an hour on weekends at the Trafford Centre. However the longer you stay the cheaper the hourly rate becomes – with a maximum stay of 12 hours costing £14 on weekdays and £21 on weekends.

      So it is actually cheaper to spend the whole day at the mall? Do they have premium service where someone cleans your windows and tires polish the paint work?

    14. TatyGGTV on

      tiny little area near the posh shops for the people who want it.

      trafford centre still has 11,500 parking spaces – close to the biggest carpark in the world…

    15. petercooper on

      Sounds good to me. It once took me 40 minutes to park there on a weekend. It’s peanuts compared to what you end up spending inside when a meal for the family can cost £60+, same for the cinema, on top of whatever shopping. (I’d rather not go there at all, but family blah blah..)

    16. MattMBerkshire on

      Quite weird tbh.

      The largest shopping centre in London, Westfield, is £8.50 for up to 10hrs.

    17. Zavodskoy on

      They’d die of shock if they ever tried to park in the centre of Brighton if they think £4 an hour is bad…

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