to feel miffed that new car park machines require registration numbers.

I suppose technically you're subletting the parking spot because you've paid for it and not the new tenant.

Just another way of making more money imo.

It's particularly annoying when you have to run back up two flights of steps because you can't remember your registration number.
Passing a ticket on is fraud soontobe depriving whatever authority owns the car park of £2.
Bit sad really I think.

It was not allowed in ours, that you passed the ticket on. Very frowned upon.

ruby - this drives my poor DH mad. Apart from the fact that it doesn't hurt to pass the ticket on if you haven't used up all your time, some of
the machines are so complicated. Our local Tesco has these machines. You have to get a ticket at the checkout (assuming you remember to ask for one, otherwise you have to go back in). The ticket has a code which you then have to tap in on a very small screen, along with the first part of your reg. You then put your money in. Then pictures of four cars come up on the screen and you have to tap on the picture of your car. It then asks if you want a receipt. DH is forever pressing the wrong digits and gets himself into a state over it. Imagine all this with a queue behind you. Ridiculous.

Completely agree rubysong. We used to have this system at our city hospital and it angered a lot of people. We couldn't buy less than 4 hours' parking and this was often far too much. And then we weren't able to pass the ticket on to someone else. As you say, if we've paid fully for the use of a space for a set period of time, then there is no loss to the hospital authority if we allow someone else to use it if we leave early. It's more a case of them screwing as much money out of us as possible.
Now the system has changed whereby we collect a parking disc on entry and pay for the time used on exit. Much fairer.