Residents Parking
From:
Ian Jones
Date:
Jul 07 15:34 UTC
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Answering one or two of Bob's 'myths':
Beauley Road may be a green and pleasant street, but have a look at the
difference in the number of cars in, for instance, Islington Road or Allington
Road during weekdays or during the evenings/weekends. Trade vans cannot now get
to Woodside Press where they could five or six years ago. And there are cars
regularly parked over the corners of Osborne Road and Allington Road, a hazard
to both pedestrians and traffic. I guess commuters don't want to walk the extra
hudred yards or so to Beauley Road. But they probably will have to when the 500
or so cars are displaced from the NCP behind the Museum of Bristol. At least
they may get a little fitter.
And that there will not be an increase in car ownership? I think you may be a
lone voice there. People will carrying on buying cars - smaller and more fuel
efficient, but the love affair has gone on too long to give them up. And they
still need parking.
There may be better ways of managing the commuter influx, but please don't say
an assumption is wrong and then put forward an opinion as 'fact'.
Finally, on the 'man-made global warming' myth, I won't go there. I think even
George W accepts there is a link.
Try Occam's razor...
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