Ha Ha Ha Ha!  That's really cheered me up after a naff day at work!  That's right everyone - you're paying more to park your car to benefit you!   If only I'd have realised I wouldn't have got so worked up about it.  It would be so easy to limit carpark use to just passengers, simply hand out parking vouchers with season tickets.  Job done. 

Oh, and Car park maintainence - don't make me laugh.  I'd love to read a list of maintenance jobs carried out at Keynsham car park.

Incidently - does anyone know how Filton Abbey Wood station car park remains (and whisper it quietly incase someone realises) free!

Yep - same at Keynsham - from ^1 to ^2.10, defeats the object if more than half the people stop paying.  I did this morning because I was running late.  I shall leave early tomorrow and park on the street.

As nice as the new platform refurbishment is, I'd have happily kept the old ones if it meant avoiding the 110% increase in parking fee which came into force this morning, presumably to pay for it.

Joking aside, how is a 110% rise justified, other than a blatant attempt to fill the coffers given this years price hike is a price fall?

I fear this will drive people away from the train or to street parking, which will be fun for the local residents.

Before I started driving to Keynsham from Bath, to save money, I regularly used to get this service from Bath to Cardiff and 90% of the time there was a ticket check between Bristol and FAW.  I suppose this is because there's no barrier at FAW, so it's good to get a check in before there.

My apologies if this has been discussed elsewhere already, I've not been by this site for a while.  I skimmed the subject titles for the last few months and didn't see anything related to this:

Does anyone know what the purpose of the refurbishment of the extended platforms at Keynsham?  I can only assume it is for a more regular stopping of HSTs^▸ (High Speed Train (Inter City class 43 125 units)). 

As someone who's recently switched to commuting from Keynsham (instead of Bath, saving myself as stunning ^130 a month), I would be very happy to see a few more services stopping here.

I think I'm right in saying that VAT^▸ (Value Added Tax) is chargable on train tickets.  If so, what chance the TOCs^▸ (Train Operating Company) will pass the chancellors VAT reduction on to us come Dec 1st?  Taking the new December prices into account for January's fair increases should lessen the impact a bit.

Not much impact to the average return, but for those of us with monthly/annual seasons it should make a bit of difference.

Billyo

First Buses are even more expensive than First Trains.  It's ^6 return from Bath to Bristol (at any time), but off-peak it's cheaper on the train.