Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Monday 7.30 - Station House | |
Posted by: | Caroline J Simonds | |
Date/Time: | 06/02/11 14:17:00 |
I will try to attend meeting if I can, but in case I don't, there are a couple of points I would like to make. This might have already been said, but there are too many postings to look at every one: I have heard a few people comment that they want to be able to park outside their house.... please understand that this proposed CPZ is NOT necessarily going to BUY (and please remember that you will have to pay for this) the right to park outside your house, and you might even find it more difficult to park outside your house, depending upon how many places we lose. Also, most of the streets that did ‘vote in favour’ and are in the proposed clusters, are not impossible to park in…. it is just that some days it is more difficult than others, and there are some streets in this area where it is actually MORE difficult to park in the evening than during the day, so clearly we have an excess of residents in some streets, who would lose out very badly if they lose parking spaces with marked out bays. One example, I can tell you that on Thursday 4th Feb there were 10 places (NOT including drive ways) in Park Road, between Staveley Road and the station, and I have never had to park more than 100 yards from my house in Chesterfield Road, yet we too apparently voted for a CPZ. I do not deny that there is a bit of a parking problem… we live in a big city after all, but I do not believe for a moment that this is the answer, and apparently about 90% of us have already realised this. We need to encourage the council to think outside the box (zone) a bit and provide better solutions, such as NOT wasting all that unused parking space North of the A4, or providing park and ride areas for commuters. After all, people who park their cars to go to work, or to visit friends are not criminals, or unwanted aliens…. But it would be nice if there was a better solution than having them parking in our streets. Don't forget that if we have marked out bays, as they have North of the A4, we could lose up to 30% of the available parking space, higher in those streets were we can't park across driveways. Are we sure that more than 30% of the cars in our streets are not residents, builders, carers, friends, or other people who will continue to need to park in our streets on a daily basis. One last thought. My daughter lives in Bristol where they seem to have almost no parking restrictions at all, and yet it is a very densely populated inner city area. Yes, parking can be a bit difficult sometimes, but they all seem to get by quite happily….. |