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[Lucky Rathen]

This might not be a recent development, but I've only just noticed it. I was in town on Sunday afternoon with the car, and found that suddenly you have to pay to park your car in town on a Sunday between 1-5. It used to be free all day on a Sunday. Plus they've doubled the price! £4 to park on Golden Square for 2 hours? Fuck that noise!

They've also put the price of my parking permit at my flat up from £50 a year to £80 a year. That's quite a significant jump. I understand the council is broke but why are they suddenly trying to make all their money out of car owners?

I really hate this city sometimes, you just get ripped off for everything. As well as all the carry on over bus fares basically doubling, I see taxi fares are away to go up again. I honestly think Aberdeen has the most expensive taxis in the whole of Britain. A taxi to the Bridge of Don on a Saturday night will set you back the best part of £20 these days. The fucking meter starts at about £4 before you even leave the taxi rank.

That's it I'm moving back to Fraserburgh.

/rant

[The_Tank]

I always just park in harriet street car park, don't think its went up in price since i've been driving. Its £2.30 for 2 hours and i usually can do the shopping in 1 so works good for me.

Council should really stop spending money on themself and start putting in back in community. How much is there new building costing.

[Bigsby]

You've had to pay to park in town for ages, must be at least 5 if not 10 years...

[Original Spies]

Originally Posted by The_Tank

Council should really stop spending money on themself and start putting in back in community. How much is there new building costing.

Many millions.

[Lucky Rathen]

Originally Posted by Bigsby

You've had to pay to park in town for ages, must be at least 5 if not 10 years...

Not on a Sunday you didn't. The multi-storey ones at least were free on a Sunday up until recently, but you have to pay for them now. £4 for 2 hours is prety wild as well.

Apparently Stagecoach have upped their fares and it costs a tenner to take the bus to Fraserburgh these days. Maybe I won't move back there after all. A fucking tenner! To take an hour and a half to reach somewhere you can drive to in 40 minutes, stopping in every little shithole town on the way there, on a bus that's uncomfortable, too hot, and full of junkies. Plus you can drive there and back on a tenner's worth of petrol, easily.

[Original Spies]

Stagecoach are terrible. I'm glad I have no reason to go into the shire, but when my old job had me working 1 day a week in Stonehaven, a return was over a fiver and took an hour and a quarter to get there. Everytime it had to go through shitty shitty Newton Hill, and everytime it picked up and dropped off fuck all passangers. That was a waste of about 15 minutes. A horrible journey.

[Bigsby]

Originally Posted by Lucky Rathen

Not on a Sunday you didn't. The multi-storey ones at least were free on a Sunday up until recently, but you have to pay for them now. £4 for 2 hours is prety wild as well.

Ah, sorry, was meaning on-street.

On the council building thing, the council does have staff and I think it's right that those staff have somewhere decent to work. St Nicholas House is literally falling apart and the staff need to go somewhere else. Whether or not that should be Marshcial College, I dunno, but the council does need to spend some cash on this whichever way you look at it.

[Afro Droid]

Originally Posted by Lucky Rathen

I really hate this city sometimes, you just get ripped off for everything.

Indeed, I received a final demand for outstanding council tax on a flat I had 3 years ago, which I've already paid. It's only £60 but it's £60 I've already paid! Cue lengthy debate in that horrible Crown Street office, and I'll probably get the same bill through again in six month's time...argh!

I like that the Council are moving into Marischal College though, fitting, seeing as it's essentially an evil scarey castle...

[Murrr]

Originally Posted by Lucky Rathen

Not on a Sunday you didn't. The multi-storey ones at least were free on a Sunday up until recently, but you have to pay for them now. £4 for 2 hours is prety wild as well.

Apparently Stagecoach have upped their fares and it costs a tenner to take the bus to Fraserburgh these days. Maybe I won't move back there after all. A fucking tenner! To take an hour and a half to reach somewhere you can drive to in 40 minutes, stopping in every little shithole town on the way there, on a bus that's uncomfortable, too hot, and full of junkies. Plus you can drive there and back on a tenner's worth of petrol, easily.

£7.40 for a single and a whopping £13.40 for a return to the Broch these days!

Stagecoach is an absolute shitpile... and this is coming from somebody who's done customer service for them for 4 years =P. Basically, because there isn't really an alternative for anybody that doesn't have a car and because there aren't any real competitors outside of town, the company can get away with charging ridiculous crazy fares. A lot of people seem to think that if Stagecoach tookover some of First's town services then things would improve... makes me laugh.

[Original Spies]

Originally Posted by Original Spies

Many millions.

Since I work here, I was curious as to just how many millions.

So I found out.







90.