Comments | vampyrefate: Resident Parking Scheme Plan for Hillsborough

vampyrefate

Resident Parking Scheme Plan for Hillsborough

Oct 05, 2009 09:53

I received one of the leaflets through my letterbox yesterday, and I can safely say it ruined my day. I will be voting against, and am probably going to write letters to whoever will listen ("no" campaign ( Read more... )

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melancholyrose_ October 5 2009, 16:09:13 UTC

As we haven't been told any details of the proposed scheme I can only presume it is going to be the same as the other schemes in the city so any info/presumptions are purely based on those ( ... )

salmon_of_doubt October 5 2009, 21:50:06 UTC

No need ;-)

vampyrefate October 5 2009, 16:23:08 UTC

To be honest I'd be more than happy to pay £10 to stop the people from the other side of the main road from sticking their 2 sodding cars in front of my house thus making me walk backwards and forwards from the bottom of the street with great big sacks of cat litter on my shoulder and 15 bags of shopping from Asda.*rant over*

If your neighbours pay their tenners then they can still park in front of your house.

Even though you are voting no I would definately get them to define where and if permit holders can park on the main roads before any discussions go ahead because that is going to be the bug bear.
Yes, this is sensible. However the rules of the consultation don't allow it ( ... )

melancholyrose_ October 5 2009, 16:55:18 UTC

The people who put their cars in front of my house aren't neighbours they don't even live on my street that's the annoying thing ( ... )

salmon_of_doubt October 5 2009, 22:04:47 UTC

It's one of those ideas that seems appealing on the face of it - but then I think you have a point.

I used to live on Vere Rd, Hillsborough, which is something like 200 yards of terraces with no side streets. So in other words the average parking space available, per house, was very little more than one house-width. Now a bog standard terrace in that area is about 14 feet wide. That's a fairly tight space for a 12-foot-2-inch Mk.1 Fiesta. And most modern cars are longer than that, with worse visibility...

Add to that the sprinkling of white van drivers who also owned cars, and you get the idea. Those streets don't actually have enough room to accommodate the 2-car families living there, so while a permit scheme might discourage non-locals on match days, it's a bit of a fib to say it's going to solve the parking problem. Unless we can get back to one car per household, it will always be with us.

In the meantime, that'll be several thousand lots of ten quid, please... (ker-ching!)

littlejenny123 October 6 2009, 10:54:01 UTC

I'm voting yes. But I don't have a car, so I have a completely different point of view. I'm all for pushing people onto public transport as much as possible. There is currently just too much incentive for people to drive. And disabled people who really need to drive don't have to pay to park in this scheme, which is good.

Go ahead council, take money from people who can afford to run a car, and use that money for something more sustainable, with my full support.

vampyrefate October 6 2009, 13:47:02 UTC

One of my biggest fears for this was that people who aren't directly affected by it *now* voting in favour.

You may find this link interesting.

rich_jacko October 6 2009, 17:54:30 UTC

If it's any consolation, this non-car-owner is abstaining.

littlejenny123 October 6 2009, 20:03:06 UTC

Doesn't change my mind I'm afraid. In a car-centric system it's difficult to do things without a car. I'd rather just not have a car-centric system, then I could have got there by the public transport which would have to have been available instead.

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