Motorbike Parking in Berkhamsted
Just discovered today that on Berkhamsted high street there is no motorbike parking bays or any info where to park a motorbike or what rules apply to motorbike. I decided to wait for warden to ask but after 45 minutes despite beautiful weather I got bored waiting so I called City Council as there was no contact info on ticket machines except of automated line to register broken machine. Well as I understand nice Lady who answered the phone was surprised by this question and promised to get that knowledge for the future and actively helped me to find some space on the back street. In the meantime traffic warden arrived as it was end of the shift I suspect and answered my question simply, the scheme is complicated. I need to buy a ticket from the machine, park the bike in pay and display bay, as I cannot securely display the ticket I need to take it with me, when the traffic warden arrives he will issue me a Penalty Charge Notice, I will need to appeal the fine on writing with copy of my ticket, Council "should" agree with my appeal and cancel the PCN. Just wonder if I have to do it every day? Whose time will be wasted by this? In London it is simpler parking in Pay and Display except Westminster is free and even in Westminster it is from £0.33 to £1 per day compering £3 to £4 per hour for the car.
I understand that this local parking policy is to stop Bikers gangs to take over the high streets? Is the council not obligated to deliver some spaces designated for the bikers? Or maybe I am so wrong?

Thank you for the answer. I like this Town but for example suggestion that I got that I can park on any side road if there is no yellow line is bit tricky ad the town high street is in the valley and side roads are not flat and I wish you luck to park a motorbike on the stiff hills. It is not a car it will overturn. I believe they should create some motorbike bays next to costa café as the pavement is very wide there.

Just noticed that you also found the other defect in the parking system Buy a ticket (in lots of 12 minutes in the High Street), then spend 15 trying to find a space - clever huh?

You silly boy! Each shop front often owns part of the footway (look for the brass marker studs). The Town Hall trust owns/manages most of the area between the studs and the High Street between Lower Kings Road and Water Lane. The parking conditions state that you must buy a ticket prior to parking in a marked bay - honest!!- I did bring up this little difficulty when it was introduced, but I was told 'they are standard conditions'. Bit like the London Boroughs that had to remove marked parking bays due to they small size and vehicles could not pass each other with the correct sized ones (I wonder if the Town/Borough Council will understand this little difficulty as I have told them, but again was just fobbed off with it wasn't up to them but County). Pass the buck rules OK. Just to put you all out of your misery, look at the sign outside the Natwest Bank to see information on the 2nd taxi rank.

I am just going thrtr to check it

The second taxi rank is at the bottom of Elm Grove before you get to the bus stop. It's only a rank between something like midnight and 6am. The logic is that taxis must not get in the way of buses and people are chucked out of meetings/bars/restaurants about midnight. This is naturally the same logic that allows restaurant and cinema to be refurbished and the existing car park to have flats built on it. When questioned on the logic apparently people walk the the cinema, or they catch a bus (stop laughing at the back!!). When suggested that this scenario was not really likely, the answer came back that there was plenty of car parking in the Town Centre car parks. Honest, I didn't make it up. (and it never rains in Berkhamsted either)

Have you seen the new Parking Proposals to reduce the parking problems of residents caused by nasty commuters and workers parking all day.
I think this is a wonderful idea, and I'm sure most reasonable people do too. All you need is to put a parking ban in for a couple of hours in the affected streets........ just like the schems already in place in Castle Hill and Castle Hill Avenue where the yellow line is to ban parking between 11am and 12, result, no all day p[arking.
Ah, but unfortunately the bureaucrats have devised a complete c**k up of a scheme - http://tinyurl.com/628fer9 - which puts parking bans in place from 8am until 8pm and 8am until 6pm.
So no more parking in the side streets at 6.30pm to go and visit the Rex, and of course let's make it totally impossible for any parents to park for 15 minutes in the afternoon and pick up their children from Berkhamsted School !!!!
And then to cap it they will be charging all the residents for a permit to park in their own street during the 'curfew' times.