Residents Parking
From:
Marvin D
Date:
Jul 11 15:48 UTC
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Charlie - I don't know what you are sighing about? I thought this was meant to
be a forum for debating things, and this was meant to be a consultation where
you hear people's opinions and take them back to the council as part of the
consultation? I think you did say that in an earlier post...
Sheer volume of vehicles is a significant contributor to parking problems -
agreed
Trying to manage it is good - agreed. Charging people additional fees for
something that has always been paid for via other taxes etc without that charge
being for a coherent solution backed up by any reliable evidence is not good,
in my opinion.
I didn't say you said commuters should not come into the area. However, a
driver in this discussion until recent comments has been the idea that commuter
parking is a problem for local residents. I was addressing that issue, and
saying if that is the problem, then that is the problem that any scheme should
target, and by charging them, not preventing them from coming in. Taking
forward what Lloyd Fletcher brought to light, if that is not the main problem,
then what is the real focus and aim of the scheme? That you want to restrict
households to having a single vehicle? If that is the main idea, then lets make
it clear that this is the main objective and discuss the impact of that and
what alternatives the council are going to offer to those people who rely on
their cars to go to their jobs, and who will be priced/forced off the road if
the RPS scheme serves that purpose.
So as I started out by asking - if, as the consultation form states, a
household may only be able to have one vehicle permit, what do the people who
have more cars than that, and who probably continue to 'need' their cars for a
variety of reasons, do with them? I'm not advocating multi-car ownership or car
culture, as I have said before, but where is the ALTERNATIVE in the scheme that
the council proposes?
And if the answer falls back along the lines that 'you have to hope you can buy
a second permit for £80', well if you can, then this means the scheme would
probably have little impact on the overall vehicle numbers on the streets, and
so what then is anyone actually getting for their £140 a year charge? Basically
zip, right?
But the council, they will be getting a lot of money.
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