Does this work for avoiding booms at Canal Walk?

[InternetSwag]

1) Get a ticket and enter the building.
2) When you need to leave, walk to the boom and get another ticket.
3) Use that ticket on the machine and then leave in your car.

 

[werfie]

Normally it doesn't work (i've tried this after a couple of nights of partying). I don't know if there is some sort of sensor attached to the system but it doesn't give you a new ticket if you are not in front of the boom with a car... it didn't for me at least

 

[ColinR]

Rule no. 1 with any parking garage boom, no ticket issued unless sensor detects car.
I've seen some of them throw a message on the screen to the effect "No car detected, pull forward"

 

[nightjar]

1) Get a ticket and enter the building.
2) When you need to leave, walk to the boom and get another ticket.
3) Use that ticket on the machine and then leave in your car.

That would be fraud - recorded on their cameras if they actually work.

Many years ago I left my car early in one morning at Cape Town airport and returned a few days later mid morning.
The machine missed the intervening days and charged me only for a couple of hours.
On later trips the machine worked correctly.

 

[McGuywer]

Why the double threads?

 

[krycor]

They have those magnetic loops under the tar like the old side road robots some streets have

 

[supersunbird]

I once had a 50c that kept falling thought parking payment machines at malls, just a random 50c, paid with it one day and it fell through but registered in the machine at a payment, tried it till the rest of the fee was paid (had put in a R5 already) and it kept falling through and registering. Used it for a few weeks for free mall parking till one day a machine did take it and did not let it go through

 

[Magandroid]

Easiest way is to scratch or damage the magnetic tape on the back of the card. Put card into paypoint but it will not be read. Contact the person inside the paypoint machine (this is also the person that gives you the correct change) by pressing the speak button. Tell them your card does not read. He will then tell you proceed to the exit gate and open for you. Have done this a few times and it works everytime. Accidently came across this when my kid chowed part of the card oneday.

 

[Grubscrew]

How cheap must you be to dodge paying for parking?

 

[AchmatK]

I refuse to go to malls that does not also have free parking.

Somerset mall doesn't seem to have an issue with this. As well as N1 city, Tygervalley or Kenilworth Centre. I haven't been to Cavendish Square, Canal Walk or the Waterfront in years because of the ripoff parking charges. I'm already coming to spend huge amounts of money shopping at the mall. Why still charge me to for this privilege. I have used the paid underground parking at Somerset Mall on occasion and mainly due to the weather. Didn't want to come back to a boiling hot car or be drenched in rain.

 

[grim]

They have those magnetic loops under the tar like the old side road robots some streets have

It's an induction loop

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induction_loop

 

[Demon7]

How cheap must you be to dodge paying for parking?

Exactly what I was thinking.

 

[vicv]

It's an induction loop

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induction_loop

And here's me who's always thought they had weight sensors...

 

[xrapidx]

I used to loose my ticket after being parked at the airport for weeks, R50 for lost ticket

 

[krycor]

It's an induction loop

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induction_loop

Yup that's what I meant..

 

[satanboy]

Idiots are willing to be arrested for R8-R20. Ridiculous.

You have real swag.

 

[shooter_za]

I avoid booms and fees by parking across from Knights Bridge and walking 3 min. No stress. I don't go there very often.

 

[ChocolateBadger]

I like monte casinos system. Fixed price at entrance so no silly ticket to worry about.

 

[USZA]

Easiest way is to scratch or damage the magnetic tape on the back of the card. Put card into paypoint but it will not be read. Contact the person inside the paypoint machine (this is also the person that gives you the correct change) by pressing the speak button. Tell them your card does not read. He will then tell you proceed to the exit gate and open for you. Have done this a few times and it works everytime. Accidently came across this when my kid chowed part of the card oneday.

This won't work anymore. My ticket got damaged and then I had to give them my ticket number. I then had to pay the parking fee to the machine. Got to the booms and they opened it for me.

 

[henry1103]

The arcade tokens (cost R1 each) registers as R5 on some machines in canal walk
There also used to be free 1.5 hr parking when purchasing from checkers/pnp, so buying a 35c plastic bag gives u 1.5hr free (not sure if its still valid now tho)...