| Topic: | Re:Elmwood Road response | |
| Posted by: | John Hickman | |
| Date/Time: | 28/01/11 16:38:00 |
| As someone who is also a resident of Elmwood Road I am disinclined to agree with my fellow resident. Space availability depends on the following 1) Time of day. Down my end of the road, when parents are delivering or collecting their children form the Montessori school, it is VERY difficult to find a space. Also, in the evening when the Church has an event of whatever sort, parking can be impossible. I am prepared to live with these inconveniences as that is all they are and they certainly will not be fixed by a CPZ. 2) Properties being renovated... Skips and builders parking their cars does reduce the number of spaces. This is a temporary (I hope) problem and will not be fixed by a CPZ because all that will happen is that the owners will buy vouchers and/or get permission from the council to deposit a skip. During times when the above two items are not valid (most of the time during the day), I am very inclined to agree with Mr. Proctor. I sympathise (because I also "suffer" from them) with the problems that my fellow residents have but I do think that they are looking at the problem somewhat myopically (if understandably). If this is really a problem for you, convert your "front garden" into a parking space and ask the cpouncil for a dropped pavement. You should get it. That way, the problem gets fixed at your expense, not mine (or everyone else's). As I have said on this forum on more than one occasion, I do not support the idea of a CPZ because, in my view, if you do the airthmetiec with parking spaces and understand when the problems occur, it does not help the problem and only permits the council to have more income to offset the problems they have at the moment through having to reduce budgets. |