I'm travelling (driving) to London to see a mate who lives in some stupid 
zonal parking area and I cannot be bothered to get and pay for a visitor 
permit.  So I was thinking of parking at Finchley Central and tubeing it in.

How likely am I to get a space at 5pm on Saturday afternoon?

Ta.

Snowball in Hell - Its a parking nightmare - on street is virtually all
resident only permit. Off street is signed up as "Private - park here
and get clamped"

I had to deliver a car there a month ago and found that the only way to
avoide a ticket was to sit in the car and argue with the wardens who
approached that as I hadn't left the car that I wasn't parked.

"TBirdFrank"  wrote in message 
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> Snowball in Hell - Its a parking nightmare - on street is virtually all
> resident only permit. Off street is signed up as "Private - park here
> and get clamped"
>
> I had to deliver a car there a month ago and found that the only way to
> avoide a ticket was to sit in the car and argue with the wardens who
> approached that as I hadn't left the car that I wasn't parked.
>

According to thetube.com, there are 275 spaces there, and its 2 to park on 
Saturdays and free on sunday (which is good, I'm staying over).  Does the 
carpark get full quickly?

On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 11:31:58 +0100, "Pacman" 
wrote:


>
>"TBirdFrank"  wrote in message 
>news:1126606782.617990.308800@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>> Snowball in Hell - Its a parking nightmare - on street is virtually all
>> resident only permit. Off street is signed up as "Private - park here
>> and get clamped"
>>
>> I had to deliver a car there a month ago and found that the only way to
>> avoide a ticket was to sit in the car and argue with the wardens who
>> approached that as I hadn't left the car that I wasn't parked.
>>
>According to thetube.com, there are 275 spaces there, and its 2 to park on 
>Saturdays and free on sunday (which is good, I'm staying over).  Does the 
>carpark get full quickly? 
>

For Saturday parking you might need to take assorted football matches
into account which can bung up station parking some distance from
where the football grounds are located.
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In Finchley?

In Finchley?

gw2486 wrote:


> In Finchley?


No, I'm not. Why are you asking (twice)?

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Chris Tolley wrote:

> gw2486 wrote:
>
> > In Finchley?
>
> No, I'm not. Why are you asking (twice)?
>
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Sorry.. a bit of confusion using Google. I was asking if there was
really an issue of football parking in Finchley?

On 14 Sep 2005 05:33:44 -0700, "gw2486"  wrote:


>
>Chris Tolley wrote:
>> gw2486 wrote:
>>
>> > In Finchley?
>>
>> No, I'm not. Why are you asking (twice)?
>>
>> --
>> http://gallery120232.fotopic.net/p9683626.html
>> (51523 (Class 101) at Ludlow, Aug 1982)
>
>Sorry.. a bit of confusion using Google. I was asking if there was
>really an issue of football parking in Finchley?


It could be if (as is usual) the fans can't park near a football
ground and park somewhere else while they take the train to get to the
match. The same used to apply when football was played at Wembley and
parking at/near stations between about 3 to 10 miles away could be
near impossible. The definitive answer ought to be available from a
Finchleyite but if e.g. Spurs, Arsenal and a couple of other London
teams were all playing at home on the same day then I suspect Finchley
station would have a reasonable chance of getting a bit crowded by
non-local fans parking their wagons.
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