Strykers a clampers paradise?

No Comments By Warren on April 14th, 2009

Strykers a clampers paradise?

Category: General, News, Tourism, Town Centre, Tags: Car park, clamping, council, law, News, parking, Strykers, Tamworth, Tourism, town center

Strykers Car Park Notices - New "Warning Notice"

Bad news for those who use Strykers car park as a place to leave the car for that quick trip into Tamworth. The car park is now regularly patrolled by Alpha Traffic Management.

For anyone caught using the car park facility without visiting the Namco owned bowling alley runs the risk of being clamped by Kettlebrook based Alpha Traffic Management.

The aim of the scheme is to ensure that only those visiting the facilities benefit from the free car parking provided. Since the barriers went up at the Snowdome, Strykers has been the last of the free parking site in the town, encouraging more people to use it to quickly pop into the town centre, avoiding the charges levied by the council and Ankerside management.

To visit the town centre, car drivers now must either use Ankerside and hope they are less then 30 minutes and pay 50p or pay the £1.20 demanded by Tamworth Borough Council for 2 hours parking, in all their pay and display car parks.

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By Andrew Hemphill at April 14th, 2009

Another money-grabbing attempt by the Council to scrape the last of the consumer public out of the town- with the recession biting nobody wants to pay for parking, but the Council wants more people to go shopping and keep the town alive- it’s a vicious circle.
By Warren at April 14th, 2009

The scheme operating at Strykers isn’t council based, it is being operated by Strykers to ensure the car park is used only by those using the bowling alley or the facilities.

In my honest opinion, I think if Snowdome had remained free then so would the bowling alley, but as the last, they saw the need to protect the spaces for their customers.

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