Faulty ticket machines trap Bath drivers in Podium car park
Engineers had to be called in after drivers became stranded in a city centre car park.
New parking ticket machines at the Podium shopping centre car park malfunctioned yesterday just hours after being installed.
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The Podium shopping centre
Sam Shore, director at Savills the agents responsible for running the car park on behalf of owner, O&H Q4, said the machines had suffered first day glitches.
He said today: “We can confirm that following installing a new payment system in the car park, the new machines had a software glitch affecting their performance. Engineers have worked through the night to rectify this matter, and we expect the cash pay machines to be fully functional today.”
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Mr Shore said some drivers were let out of the barrier-controlled car park by staff after the machines failed.
Comments
by Mr_Nemo
Wednesday, September 05 2012, 9:38PM
“Looking at the (out of date) picture with this article, I must make a mental note to check when next passing if it is still labelled as the Podium "Shopping Centre" - bit of a misnomer now when all you have is ONE big shop.”
by aurea_flamma
Wednesday, September 05 2012, 5:06PM
“Thank goodness it was private sector - had it been council run they would have charged those trapped extra for the extra parking time!”
by FrancinesPerm
Wednesday, September 05 2012, 4:20PM
“Nobody was late for work (uness they were FREAKS who paid on entrance at a pay on exit car park). But I imagine it was a good excuse. "Sorry boss, I couldn't come in because an evil, mal-functioning ticket machine gripped me in its evil claws and I was trapped for several hours. I also didn't notice the pedestrian exits, of which there are plenty"”
by joning
Wednesday, September 05 2012, 1:42PM
“I'm struggling to see how people would be late for work. Can you enlighten me on this Terry?”
by sejhfkjsdhg
Wednesday, September 05 2012, 1:41PM
“But just to clarify, the drivers weren't trapped. It is like the Leveson Inquirer never happened.”
by freudianskip
Wednesday, September 05 2012, 1:39PM
“didn't people take the law into their own hands and dismantle the Charlotte Street ones when the same thing happened a while back? Remember kids - always travel with a full toolkit in the boot.”
by TeabagTerry
Wednesday, September 05 2012, 1:07PM
“I hope they compensated people who were made late for work.”
by MikeHut
Wednesday, September 05 2012, 12:59PM
“Yeah right software....hmmm....now pull the other one!!! It used to be a bad workman blames his tools now its a bad workman blames the software!!! anyway wouldn't it be firmware anyway?”