| Topic: | Re:"Forcing" CPZs on other people | |
| Posted by: | John Hickman | |
| Date/Time: | 06/10/14 16:29:00 |
| "Nobody is trying to 'force' a CPZ on anybody else. The benefits of the Park Road/East Staveley Road CPZ were so obvious and game-changing that all the adjoining streets then generated Petitions for their own CPZs". Self righteous twaddle. The only "benefits" of the CPZ is that one and a half streets get what they think they want and the rest of the neighbourhood suffers the consequences. A very selfish and limited view. "Correct me if I am wrong, but the Park Road/east Staveley Road CPZ went through only after due process (a formal consultation)." Allow me to correct you in that not everyone that was affected was consulted. Only those in the roads that got the CPZ - not all roads affected by the CPZ. This may, in your words, have been "a due process" but hardly a wide reaching one. A quote from an earlier Owen post... "so that the rebalanced street can accommodate those with a better right to park there". Nobody has a "right" (whether better or not) to park in their own streets or, indeed, anywhere else. Yes, you can, if space permits. If not then your only right is to try and park as closely as possible where it is legal to do so. Equally, you do not have a "right" to be selfish and prevent others from parking there. This is part of a process called "democracy" which you may have heard of. |