Merchant Gate Car Park

How is a car park designed so that the top 2 floors are for short stay? Plain stupid. The machine has overcharged me on two occasions that I have used the car park. And they can't provide any assistance except 'do what the machine says'! I'd park elsewhere.

Full of feral kids off the estates due to greatly reduced security presence (most likely due to budget cuts). Now there's nowhere safe to leave a car in Wakefield - especially on an evening. Attached is a photo I took a few years back.

Easy to find, just out of the center of Wakefield town. About 4 min walk to main shopping area. Next to the station, currently 70p per hour.

The most confusing multi story car park I’ve ever been in. It’s not clear where you can and can’t park for short stay, there’s no parent and child bays. I was forced onto the top roof in a storm with my newborn when the whole car park was empty as that was the only place seemingly marked for short stay. Won’t be using again, absolute waste of space. Nobody will use it if it’s that confusing.

Be careful not to park on the top levels as they required permits even if the lower levels are full - you will be fined! It's tricky to see the signs posting the fact that you may be in the 'black zone' and don't be fooled by the colour of the parking bays; they are blue regardless (so even that doesn't help!)

Very convenient location for a car park but the payment machines do not cut it in 2018! If the payment machines happen to be working they are excruciatingly slow. Machines are often working and you're always queuing a while to pay when coming off trains.Please update your ticket machines!

Fix the pay stations. 15 minute queue after an already-late train in a dismal, broken glass-littered anteroom to hell

So someone in their infinite wisdom decided to design and build a car park that's absolutely horrible at being a car park. No intelligent person in their right mind would even entertain trying to navigate this absolute abomination in any vehicle larger than a Nissan Micra... Me on the other hand? I went full lunatic and tried it in a Renault Grand Espace. Narrow ramps, narrow and shallow spaces and the prices? Unbelievable. My car was parked for one day and two hours... Instead of being charged for one day and two hours I found myself charged for two full days. £22! There are plenty of far better places to park in Wakefield... Use one of those instead.

Maddening. Had to use this car park for the first time yesterday. 'Short stay' (red zone) seems to be at the top. 'Rail users' (green zone) takes up most of the car park. What counts as 'short stay' and what counts as 'rail user'? Does fetching someone from the train station count as a 'rail user'? Why is 'short stay' at the top and not easily accessible from the ground floor? And why have 'red' and 'green' zones at all when they amount to the same thing? Too many questions and not enough answers provided.It's just so badly designed. If not for that it would otherwise be a perfectly acceptable car park.Would suggest something like NCP does--where you have your own account with an app, scan it for entry, scan it to leave and payment is automatically deducted. That's incredibly convenient.