New parking fees at our airport

@JudyEv (382412)
Rockingham, Australia
February 10, 2024 6:38am CST
Julia (@Juliaacv) wrote about the high cost of parking at medical centres in her region. Parking at hospitals here is incredibly expensive too. Parking at the airport is even worse but now they’ve brought in a new device to gain them even more money. There is an area at the airport where you can drop off people and leave immediately. The latest addition is a sensor that marks the time that you enter that zone. You have five minutes to exit at the other end. However, five minutes is barely enough time to unload your passenger and their luggage. If you exceed the five minutes, you are slugged a fee. I think if is very unfair but there isn’t much you can do about it. The photo is of another jigsaw that I finished last week.
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Valerie J. Routhieaux
@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
10 Feb 24
Five minutes isn't long enough to drop someone off at the airport.
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BarBaraPrz
@BarBaraPrz (51838)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
10 Feb 24
It's long enough to drop ONE PERSON off, but not their luggage or any companions.
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Valerie J. Routhieaux
@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
10 Feb 24
@BarBaraPrz I agree. They would all need to have carryon so they could hop out and you could leave.
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (382412)
• Rockingham, Australia
11 Feb 24
It's just stupid. Another way to increase their profits.
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Anna
@LadyDuck (502726)
• Italy
10 Feb 24
I agree that it is unfair, five minutes are almost not enough to drop one passenger and no luggage. Pretty jigsaw.
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Anna
@LadyDuck (502726)
• Italy
11 Feb 24
@JudyEv Here it is 15 minutes at the airports, the driver must remain by the car, but the time to unload passengers and luggage is 15 minutes.
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (382412)
• Rockingham, Australia
11 Feb 24
I'm hoping that people will write letters and lobby against such a ridiculously short time. I'm glad you like the jigsaw.
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (382412)
• Rockingham, Australia
11 Feb 24
@LadyDuck That makes much more sense. With sensors recording the times, you have no option but to pay the fee. There is no-one to complain to. You pay up or stay there all night/day.
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Juliaacv
@Juliaacv (56358)
• Canada
10 Feb 24
That is a sneaky and underhanded way of gouging innocent people. Here one lot began doing it and then it just became common practice among all of the lots. I can see paying in the 'high rent' areas such as the downtown areas of any city, as that is prime land and they pay high taxes for that property. That is a very nice jigsaw, so many colours, how many pieces was that one?
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Juliaacv
@Juliaacv (56358)
• Canada
11 Feb 24
@JudyEv My hubs just went over to begin working on his current puzzle it is a 1,000 piece puzzle, it won't take him too long.
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (382412)
• Rockingham, Australia
11 Feb 24
It was 500 pieces. The flowers were a bit tricky but the pieces were really interesting shapes so mostly, once I had the right colour in my head, I went looking for the shapes.
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Eva James
@wolfgirl569 (135910)
• Marion, Ohio
10 Feb 24
That is extremely greedy. Lovely puzzle
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Eva James
@wolfgirl569 (135910)
• Marion, Ohio
11 Feb 24
@JudyEv A lot of pink
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (382412)
• Rockingham, Australia
11 Feb 24
I like this puzzle although the flowers were a bit tricky.
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Ron Rybs
@Ronrybs (21492)
• London, England
10 Feb 24
Love the jigsaw. Thank goodness I love close enough to the airport that I can take a bus!
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (382412)
• Rockingham, Australia
11 Feb 24
There is now a train that goes right to the airport which would make it easier for some. But sometimes you like to take people there, especially if they have a couple of largish cases. I thought you'd like the jigsaw! lol
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (382412)
• Rockingham, Australia
11 Feb 24
@Ronrybs 'Captive being the operative word. If you don't pay, I guess you stay there till you do. There is no-one to abuse either which is probably a good thing. The sensors record the time and if you're over time, you have to use your card to pay.
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Ron Rybs
@Ronrybs (21492)
• London, England
11 Feb 24
@JudyEv When you have a captive audience you squeeze out what you can, I guess
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LindaOH
@LindaOHio (222728)
• United States
10 Feb 24
That's not fair; but what is??? Lovely puzzle. Have a good weekend.
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (382412)
• Rockingham, Australia
11 Feb 24
It's all about profits nowadays, isn't it? So annoying.
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LindaOH
@LindaOHio (222728)
• United States
11 Feb 24
@JudyEv Yes, very annoying.
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BarBaraPrz
@BarBaraPrz (51838)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
10 Feb 24
I used to troll parking lots for dropped quarters at the gate but these days they require cards, don't they, so no more free money that way. Lovely jigsaw puzzle. At first, I thought it was a cross-stitch that someone left the gridding in...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (382412)
• Rockingham, Australia
11 Feb 24
Just about eveerything is card nowadays or paying with a mobile phone. I guess if someone dropped a coin at the exit gate, they wouldn't bother getting out to pick it up.
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OceanTiara
@RebeccasFarm (91297)
• United States
10 Feb 24
Why you can't leave your car at the airport here..stolen. I love that puzzle is it? So much money to put out just to park Judy..terrible.
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (382412)
• Rockingham, Australia
11 Feb 24
There is a lot of security at the airports now. If you tried to steal a car you'd have to pay the parking fee to get out of the place.
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Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (14790)
• Ireland
10 Feb 24
@judyev that’s how it works here too. And all you’re doing is stopping the car, it’s not as if the airport’s losing money providing some service or other - your car’s just sitting there doing nothing.
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (382412)
• Rockingham, Australia
11 Feb 24
It all seems very greedy to me sometimes.
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