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From: charlie bolton Date: 2007 Mar 15 08:49 UTC Short link

The council is considering going for residents parkng schemes for different
areas of the city, all of which face huge and growing parking problems.

Since I have been a councillor, I have been contacted by many people
complaining about commuter parking and asking if/when residents parking is
coming in. (Of course Linda Salter and my predecssor, Matthew Symonds, were
involved in a survey of residents a year or so ago - I will leave it to them to
say more).

So the question is this - would you pay to have a better chance of parking near
your home? If so, how much? Is residents parking the way ahead? Or is it an
affront, another council money-grabbing exercise?

From: Ali Bevan Date: 2007 Mar 15 11:43 UTC Short link

Charlie, I think the issue for most commuters is the lack of cheap, reliable
public transport. If this issue was addressed it would negate lots of the
problems with parking. Obviously, this is 'pie in the sky' as this particular
argument has been running for years.
On a lighter note, I would not pay residents parking fees, were I unlucky
enough to have a garage now, as my husband has had one car stolen and written
off, another stolen and one smashed to pieces with a brick since we moved to
Windmill Hill two and a half years ago. I think if an element of a residents
charge included a security component I may change my view.
Ali

From: Ali Bevan Date: 2007 Mar 15 11:45 UTC Short link

Sorry, should read I am lucky enough to have a garage - no edit feature :-)

From: Stephanie Wardle Date: 2007 Mar 15 12:09 UTC Short link

Hello

  Surely people in Southville live near enough to the city centre not to need a
car at all? it's a 5-10 minute walk, after all...! (hides behind sofa).


  How about paying parking fees to people who cycle/walk catch the bus as an
incentive to green commuting?

  Awaits flak....

  STeph :)


charlie bolton <<email obscured>> wrote:
  The council is considering going for residents parkng schemes for different
areas of the city, all of which face huge and growing parking problems.

Since I have been a councillor, I have been contacted by many people
complaining about commuter parking and asking if/when residents parking is
coming in. (Of course Linda Salter and my predecssor, Matthew Symonds, were
involved in a survey of residents a year or so ago - I will leave it to them to
say more).

So the question is this - would you pay to have a better chance of parking near
your home? If so, how much? Is residents parking the way ahead? Or is it an
affront, another council money-grabbing exercise?

charlie bolton
Southville, Bristol
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From: Christopher Woods Date: 2007 Mar 15 14:04 UTC Short link

As I don't have a car and always bus or walk, I find the antics of both
commuter and resident parkers hilarious. However I could easily bomb the
ones who park outside my house at about 7am and listen to radio news so loud
I can hear it in bed! Chris


>From: stephanie wardle <<email obscured>>
>To: Greater Bedminster Neighbourhood Forum
><<email obscured>>
>Subject: Re: [GB-Forum] Residents Parking
>Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:02:44 +0000 (GMT)
>
>Hello
>
>   Surely people in Southville live near enough to the city centre not to
>need a car at all? it's a 5-10 minute walk, after all...! (hides behind
>sofa).
>
>
>   How about paying parking fees to people who cycle/walk catch the bus as
>an incentive to green commuting?
>
>   Awaits flak....
>
>   STeph :)
>
>
>charlie bolton <<email obscured>> wrote:
>   The council is considering going for residents parkng schemes for
>different areas of the city, all of which face huge and growing parking
>problems.
>
>Since I have been a councillor, I have been contacted by many people
>complaining about commuter parking and asking if/when residents parking is
>coming in. (Of course Linda Salter and my predecssor, Matthew Symonds, were
>involved in a survey of residents a year or so ago - I will leave it to
>them to say more).
>
>So the question is this - would you pay to have a better chance of parking
>near your home? If so, how much? Is residents parking the way ahead? Or is
>it an affront, another council money-grabbing exercise?
>
>charlie bolton
>Southville, Bristol
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From: diane jones Date: 2007 Mar 15 15:45 UTC Short link

No flak form me - totally agree that many people could reduce car use, and
even ownership.

However not everyone works in the centre, and I also strongly agree with
Charlie that something REALLY needs to be done about public transport (the
24 route through Southville is so consistantly appalling that it's
unreliability is all you can rely on).  Costs of public transport to
travellors has increased much faster than motoring costs for many years.

And there are increasing numbers of 4x4's.  What do people think they are
doing in these things, on the school run in particular.  Still, no doubt
they need them for all the off road acres in Southville.
Diane

----- Original Message -----
From: "stephanie wardle" <<email obscured>>
To: "Greater Bedminster Neighbourhood Forum"
<<email obscured>>
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 12:02 PM
Subject: Re: [GB-Forum] Residents Parking


> Hello
>
>  Surely people in Southville live near enough to the city centre not to
> need a car at all? it's a 5-10 minute walk, after all...! (hides behind
> sofa).
>
>
>  How about paying parking fees to people who cycle/walk catch the bus as
> an incentive to green commuting?
>
>  Awaits flak....
>
>  STeph :)
>
>
> charlie bolton <<email obscured>> wrote:
>  The council is considering going for residents parkng schemes for
> different areas of the city, all of which face huge and growing parking
> problems.
>
> Since I have been a councillor, I have been contacted by many people
> complaining about commuter parking and asking if/when residents parking is
> coming in. (Of course Linda Salter and my predecssor, Matthew Symonds,
> were involved in a survey of residents a year or so ago - I will leave it
> to them to say more).
>
> So the question is this - would you pay to have a better chance of parking
> near your home? If so, how much? Is residents parking the way ahead? Or is
> it an affront, another council money-grabbing exercise?
>
> charlie bolton
> Southville, Bristol
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From: Emma Winfield Date: 2007 Mar 15 17:39 UTC Short link

Personally against Residents Parking Schemes, please no more Council
bureaucracy - let's use our energy, and the energy, funds and employees the
Council would have used for such a scheme, to come up with a properly
sustainable and sensible public transport service.

Rather than beat people with a stick, let's engage people humourously and
creatively to explore public transport options, pedestrianisation options, and
so on - instead of green-washing us with the Green Capital non-happening, why
not start small and Bristol aim to become the exemplar modern city in Britain
for community and public MOBILITY (rather than 'transport') - get the city
active, moving & interacting more, with a multi-strand approach of some
community & public transport, more cycling, and much more walking?

From: charlie bolton Date: 2007 Mar 16 09:06 UTC Short link

The problem is that car ownership is increasing. By about half a million a
year, UK-wide, which could easily translate into 1 car per street a year in
Bemmie.

We are already seeing symptoms of this (bollards, opposition to new
developments, anger at vehicles which are left in one place for periods of time
). I get contacted by people with health problems, with children, or who are
just unhappy/fearful at the thought of having to walk several streets from car
to home at night.

I see no evidence that the trend to increase car ownership is stopping or
reversing.

So what happens when the area is full - or over-full? (I have visions of a
parking version of road rage)

And what do you want your streets to be - car parks - or something more?

Doing nothing and hoping for public transport - well, it is one way - but
progress on Bristol having decent public transport is painfully slow and will
cost huge amounts of money not currently available.

Residents parking is the only thing I have come across which would be a method
to physically limit the levels of car ownership in the area.

It would address commuter parking. It would address shopper/night out parking
(unpopular with the streets around North St - which would then be a problem for
the traders). It gives people a better chance of parking near to their homes.
It might address problems with people parking too close to the ends of streets
(which in itself may prove unpopular, because it may reduce the number of
spaces available).

The biggest downside, of course,  will be the fact that it will cost money.


Charlie Bolton
Green Party Councillor
Southville

>>> "Emma" <<email obscured>> 15/03/07 17:42 >>>

Personally against Residents Parking Schemes, please no more Council
bureaucracy - let's use our energy, and the energy, funds and employees the
Council would have used for such a scheme, to come up with a properly
sustainable and sensible public transport service.

Rather than beat people with a stick, let's engage people humourously and
creatively to explore public transport options, pedestrianisation options, and
so on - instead of green-washing us with the Green Capital non-happening, why
not start small and Bristol aim to become the exemplar modern city in Britain
for community and public MOBILITY (rather than 'transport') - get the city
active, moving & interacting more, with a multi-strand approach of some
community & public transport, more cycling, and much more walking?

Emma

Emma
Ashton, Bristol
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From: Linda Salter Date: 2007 Mar 16 15:10 UTC Short link

Hi Everyone
Residents parking doesn't have to be an all day thing if it is to just deter
commuters. A two hour slot from 11.30am to 1.30pm would do the trick. I don't
know anyone who can have daily two hour lunch breaks to move the car out of a
resticted zone so my guess is that they wouldn't park there in the first place.
It already happens in some towns and cities.
Linda

From: Linda Salter Date: 2007 Mar 16 15:10 UTC Short link

Forgot to say that 'parking rage' already happens in some of our streets.

From: John Purkiss Date: 2007 Mar 16 21:39 UTC Short link

I'm all for a residents parking scheme, if only to deter commuters who insist
on using Southville and Bedminster as a free parking lot.  They should be using
the park & ride sites.  I like Linda's idea to set a core time in the middle of
the day.

From: Susan Weil Date: 2007 Mar 17 11:29 UTC Short link

Jumping in for the first time!

When I moved into Southville 3 years ago, there were so many parking spaces
available  -night and day. Now, still a non-car owner despite the terrible
public transport system, I am shocked by how full the streets now are with
cars, especially in an area that is so close to the Centre.

A few stones for the pond to see what they draw:

1) I think that each house should be allowed one resident's parking permit per
car for their street.  The rest of the cars have to hunt for spaces.

2 If we move to residents' parking permits, I believe that residents should
also pay for visitors' parking permits (e.g. packs of 20 for 20) but that
people who do not own cars should be given 2 free visitor permit books per
year.

3) I think all of us in Southville who walk, cycle and try to use (slightly
better but still too infrequent and undependable) buses should do mass
'walk-ins' along Coronation Road once a month, with advanced warning through
the media.  This would demonstrate just how much worse the gridlock would be if
we too all gave up and bought and/or used cars.

What thinks thee all?

From: Stephen Wickham Date: 2007 Mar 17 12:52 UTC Short link

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)

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)
>
>
>
>
>
>
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> Subject: Re: [GB-Forum] Residents Parking
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From: Cecilia Weightman Date: 2007 Mar 18 13:50 UTC Short link

I live just off East Street and the parking and problems we have over here are
horrendous.  I live in a small block of flats that has it's own car park which
is rarely full.  The residents still don't use the car park.  They park on one
nearby street in particular which has double yellows down one side on the
double yellows and then complain on the odd occasion that they get tickets.
One or two residents don't bother with either the carpark or the double yellow
lines instead preferring to drive down the pavement where the entrance to the
flats are virtually concealed entrances because they feel it's a bother using
the carpark!  Add to this the fact that we live near at least two busy carparks
we get people parking on pavements, disabled badge holders ignoring restriction
times and parking on yellow lines all day.  We even have motorcyclists parking
in the cycle lanes because "doesn't the bike sign mean I'm allowed to park
here?"  East Street itself is almost as busy with traffic as it was before the
traffic was restricted - it's supposed to be buses, taxis and cycles only yet
the car drivers just ignore this.  Not that cyclists in Bedminster use the
roads of course, they're all too busy trying to get out of the way of all those
awful people who insist on using the pavements.

From: Emma Winfield Date: 2007 Mar 18 22:13 UTC Short link

Hi Ben

  If anything can go in the mix, I'll chip in with the following!

  "Pedestrianise Bristol and claim it back for the people, businesses & ideas
that make up this amazing city!"

  - complusory PARK & WALK (not park & ride) on the edges of Bristol, along
tree-lined routes lined with benches, stalls selling fresh local food for
lunch, drinking fountains

  - no personal cars in the city during working hours (& no 'executive
exceptions', including all council staff & elected members)

  - only community transport (for people with mobility or access difficulties)
within the inner city centre

  - public transport and taxis can only be caught outside the inner city centre
- within easy walking distance, but keeping out all the central snarl-ups by
catching them at the exit point appropriate to your journey

  - a central, free tam service on a loop around the edge of the inner city
centre to get you to the appropriate exit point for public transport or taxis

  - a business supply tram service around the edge of the inner city centre for
deliveries to businesses in the centre, to be collected on trollies

  - market stalls around the inner city centre, providing local fresh food &
drinks in washable containers to be deposited in collection bins for cleaning

  - separate recycling bins instead of 'catch-all' rubbish bins

  - business meeting points all round the inner city centre, so people can meet
outdoors under shelter

  I could go on, but I won't!  Always worth adding another voice and another
vision, though - you never know who might be listening!

  Best wishes

  Emma

  Emma Winfield
  Tansition City Bristol


Ben Barker <<email obscured>> wrote:
  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"
To: "Linda Salter"
; "Charles Bolton"
; ;

Cc: "Main Identity"
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)
>
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>> Forgot to say that 'parking rage' already happens in some of our streets.
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From: Emma Winfield Date: 2007 Mar 18 22:30 UTC Short link

Hi Susan

I like all your ideas, especially the "walk-ins" - count me in for getting
those up and running.

My only query is, how would "one permit per house" meet the reality that lots
of houses in our area (including mine) rather than having empty guest rooms are
filled with independent sharers?  Maybe one permit per house would encourage
car sharing, but it can be very tricky to set up privately with someone you
houseshare with.  How about instead BCC funds a massive increase in car share
vehicles available, in some ratio of one per 'x' houses in a street?  Easier to
manage centrally than all houses trying to negotiate private car shares.

Of course, this is all with the proviso that these cars, private or car shares,
can only drive around or out of Bristol, since everyone will be cycling or
walking into the centre (or hopping in community transport if needed) along the
beautiful tree-lined routes I imposed on Bristol in my previous post?!  Of
course, some people will be persistently late for work, as they won't be able
to resist stopping on the benches and playing a quick game of chess or
backgammon along the way!

Best wishes

From: Debbie Harris Date: 2007 May 03 12:55 UTC Short link

Hi there

Just to say that my sister lives in South London and they have had real
problems since they introduced residents' parking. As with all schemes, it
allows anyone who lives in the area to park anywhere in the area and often
(with the growth in car ownership) the streets around my sister's flat are full
and she is left to park fairly far away (not easy with a toddler). She's found
that the new scheme has not given any benefits, just that she has to pay to
park just as far away as she did in the first place.

It's worth noting that her immediate area became much fuller of cars on the
introduction of the congestion charge - surely this would happen to areas just
on the fringe of the proposed Bristol 'doughnut' zone?

Secondly, it's become impossible for any tradesperson coming to work on a house
to park without paying a steep visitors parking charge - which again gives no
guarantees of their being able to park anywhere nearby. Visitors also encounter
the same problems - apart from the cost, if they stay overnight in the week, it
means getting up at 7am to display another visitor's ticket.

I also find it very interesting that Clifton residents and businesspeople
rejected controlled parking zones when they were mooted a few years ago.

Something does need to be done - and that is to create a good public transport
system!

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