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Residents Parking From: Ben barker Date: 2007 Mar 17 17:10 UTC Short link
Keep these ideas coming. BCC is currently looking at residents' parking
issues in the doughnut around the city centre. I have no idea what will be
proposed, if anything, but it's due to go to the Executive member by the
summer. We'll make sure that all the ideas, for and against, generated in
the Bedminster Issues Forum are passed to the officers drawing up the
proposals. Cheers, Ben.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Wickham" <<email obscured>> To: "Linda Salter" <<email obscured>>; "Charles Bolton" <<email obscured>>; <<email obscured>>; <<email obscured>> Cc: "Main Identity" <<email obscured>> Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2007 12:55 PM Subject: Re: [GB-Forum] Residents Parking >I tend to agree that "the times they are a changing", and whereas I would >have been totally agin residents parking some years ago I would be more >prepared to go with the flow now. The problem comes with finding the cash! >We risk pricing Southville folk off the road while commuters will always >find a way to pay, park free somewhere else, or change job. (and if you >have not noticed local B2 employment is evaporating like petrol in the sun >as speculators push everything toward flat-building) > > I agree with John Purkiss a central time period of residents parking, > slightly out of kilter with another district so that the same enforcement > team can be used twice or more on one set of wages to minimise costs, > might be cost effective. > > And everyone's circumstances are both different and change. > > Personally I could say I moved in here because of easy motorway access and > the view of the river. 20 years later one of those reasons is much less > relevant! But access to the town centre is if anything worse, and more > expensive unless you use a bicycle. > Personally I have more than one car but one is a major hobby, created most > of its carbon footprint in the 1960's, does very little mileage and lives > off-street, (one can only drive one car at once!) so I'm apprehensive > about second car costs. > > Part of the present problem is that the economy is relatively booming so a > lot of people are coming North into central Bristol from the South. That > could change particularly if property were to crash again, as rapid churn > rate in older housing creates a lot of invisible jobs for small building > tradesmen, as well as the very visible new builds. > > Personally I think a docks footbridge near SSGB is essential (but perhaps > I should start another discussion group on that!) As Ben Barker has > pointed out elsewhere in the past that would make Vauxhall Bridge far more > popular with pedestrians to and from Southville, but also attract the > commuters cars to my end of Coronation Road in the same way as they land > like flies on cowpats in and around Osborne Rd! (to use the gaol ferry > footbridge, and then Princes st bridge on foot.). > > What we all need to be aware of is that the NCP car park behind the > Industrial Museum will close suddenly if and when development of Wapping > Warf commences and that COULD put 200-300 cars in our backstreets > overnight, assuming some of the 500 will make other arrangements. A sudden > change of that sort could be precipitative in terms of our needing a > parking scheme. Watch that space! > > All best > Stephen Wickham (Coronation Road, west end) > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Linda Salter" <<email obscured>> > To: "Charles Bolton" <<email obscured>>; > <<email obscured>>; <<email obscured>> > Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 3:10 PM > Subject: Re: [GB-Forum] Residents Parking > > >> Forgot to say that 'parking rage' already happens in some of our streets. >> >> ______________________________________________________________________ >> Please note the new simpler name for our website: >> http://www.bristol.gov.uk >> >> Our email addresses have also changed - visit >> http://www.bristol.gov.uk/bigchange for further details. >> >> Sign-up for our email bulletin giving news, have-your-say and event >> information at: http://www.bristol.gov.uk/newsdirect >> >> >> >> >> Linda Salter >> >> More info: Info about Linda Salter: >> http://forums.e-democracy.org/contacts/lindasalter >> >> >> This topic's messages may be viewed at: >> http://forums.e-democracy.org/topic/154377 >> >> ----------------------------------------- >> To post, send your message to: <email obscured> >> >> To unsubscribe type "unsubscribe" (without the quotation marks) in the >> subject line and send to: <email obscured> >> >> More info about Greater Bedminster Neighbourhood Forum: >> http://forums.e-democracy.org/groups/bemmy-forum >> >> E-Democracy.Org rules: http://e-democracy.org/rules >> ----------------------------------------- >> Special thanks to our friends at OnlineGroups.Net >> for their technical support in maintaining this site. >> http://onlinegroups.net >> > > > Stephen Wickham > > More info: Info about Stephen Wickham: > http://forums.e-democracy.org/contacts/stephenwickham > > > This topic's messages may be viewed at: > http://forums.e-democracy.org/topic/154396 > > ----------------------------------------- > To post, send your message to: <email obscured> > > To unsubscribe type "unsubscribe" (without the quotation marks) in the > subject line and send to: <email obscured> > > More info about Greater Bedminster Neighbourhood Forum: > http://forums.e-democracy.org/groups/bemmy-forum > > E-Democracy.Org rules: http://e-democracy.org/rules > ----------------------------------------- > Special thanks to our friends at OnlineGroups.Net for their technical > support in maintaining this site. > http://onlinegroups.net > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.13/725 - Release Date: > 17/03/2007 12:33 >