| Topic: | Re:Controlled parking - opinion seems to be shifting | |
| Posted by: | Thomas Barry | |
| Date/Time: | 23/01/15 15:44:00 |
| My position is unaltered - if traffic is reducing (as it did consistently from 2000) and efforts are being made to incentivise people to leave the car at home, there's no pressing reason for the bureaucracy and minor inconvenience of a CPZ. If, due to blinkered policy changes this reverses to the extent that there's a clear problem, I will consider supporting a CPZ. Evidently traffic is increasing now (and pushing up bus and rail fares while the oil price tanks is a *really* clever move, guys, you might as well put signs up saying 'here, drive to this free parking by M4 J1 and take the train') and the consequences in terms of ugly, cluttered streets, unreliable buses and bad air is obvious, it's time to get serious about removing the right of non-residents to impose their vehicles on us for free. There's no such thing as free parking, you merely have a choice of who pays and how. |