Does this work for avoiding booms at Canal Walk?

When I'm on the bike I don't pay for parking out of principle that especially at Canal Walk there is no dedicated bike parking and if you use a car bay you can expect some irate motorist to scratch your bike or bash it with a door purely by their own inattention.

Or worse you get back and little Johny's ice cream hands are all over your tank and some of his skin fried to your exhaust.

It's also a nightmare to operate a parking machine while on a bike, make the booms shorter and provide a dedicated zone and there won't be a problem. Fortunately at Canal Walk there are some easy access shortcuts for bikes.

In the car I'm happy to pay, but I agree you should only be forced to pay if offering undercover parking, otherwise they should provide free parking in the open zone.
 
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Spunkywunky1 said:
How on earth did you come up with this post from a thread 18 months old??
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+1 :wtf:

VernD said:
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.
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+1 The new boom system works with a numbering system printed on the cards ... they know exactly when you entered ;)
 
Well the induction loop is used mostly on vehicle barriers around south africa. The other option would be an infra red beam mounted somewhere and a receiver to detect the vehicle if the beam is broken. The induction loop is quite sensitive so any large(ish) metal object will fool it into thinking a car is over it.

If you can re-issue a card and use that same card to exit, it might work. Mind you a lot of external access control places will also have cameras. You might get out but the next day you might get into trouble.
 
EricST said:
Well the induction loop is used mostly on vehicle barriers around south africa. The other option would be an infra red beam mounted somewhere and a receiver to detect the vehicle if the beam is broken. The induction loop is quite sensitive so any large(ish) metal object will fool it into thinking a car is over it.
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Sometimes rolling an empty coke can over the loop fools it into detecting a vehicle.
 
Who spends more than 3 hours in Canal Walk if not for movies??? Cheap Skate.
 
In the UK, pay and display machines have been installed at every imaginable locations, even at scenic spots in the country and the charges are heavy. At Polperro, the rate is a minimum of £5.00 for 30 mins and £1.50 for every 30 mins thereafter. Just walking down to the village and looking around will take 2 hours minimum, and then you might stop for lunch and get a chewy Cornish pasty...

One trick which my penny-pinching friend showed me was to take a magnet (say from a loudspeaker) and wipe the card across it, thereby defeating the entry time. The parking management co are aware of this trick and make you pay £5 to have a card issued at the entry point and also print the time on the card itself
 
grim said:
It won't, aluminium is a non-ferrous metal, an induction loop won't pick it up
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To activate a loop detector without a car, you need to wave a spade across the loop. If it is buried deep, even a motor-cycle wheel will not activate it
 
Sometimes there are some strong winds there at Canal Walk.
I once got to the boom (after I paid), and my ticket blew away, pressed the button and the oke opened the boom for me.
Now every now and then if you use that excuse, it still works...
 
grim said:
It won't, aluminium is a non-ferrous metal, an induction loop won't pick it up
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Well it worked on the booms at the University of Johannesburg. Used it plenty of times to drive through booms which opened automatically from the other side.
 
supersunbird said:
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 :(
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I discovered by accident one day ( ;) ) that the Kenyan 20 shilling coin is exactly the same weight and size as SA's R5 coin... it's worth half.
 
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