Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:CPZ in the Griffin Park area | |
Posted by: | Bernadette Paul | |
Date/Time: | 09/10/09 11:38:00 |
Sorry, can't help myself, just have to respond. "at least she said they can park were they live,and it's not free parking for the people using the tube" Why shouldn't anyone be able to park for free whether using the tube or shopping or whatever? These are publicly maintained roads they are not private for the exclusive use of residents. I know and understand how galling it can be when you can't park where you want but, if someone is able to park in any road which just happens to be remotely convenient to a tube/train station, why shouldn't they? If there is an available space, that's exactly what it is - an available space. This NOT DOWN MY ROAD mentality baffles me. People can only park if there is a space. If you are not there why shouldn't someone else be and if you are there then someone else can't park on top of you can they? Being prepared to cough up any amount of money (and I don't know anyone in a CPZ paying as little as £30 per annum, a woman I work with pays £130 p.a. for the first car) just to POSSIBLY be able to park, is a mystery to me. Then there is, as has been mentioned, the added risk of attracting tickets for yourself and visitors for various misdemeanours. What about the people living in CPZ areas who commute themselves thereby leaving their streets empty during the day simply because no one else is aloud to park there. My niece and her husband live in South Ealing, they both commute to work by car. Who knows how many others in their street do the same therefore their particular road is virutally clear of vehicles during the day. What would be the harm in anyone parking there to shop or even commute. Presumably the tube commuters would be returning roughly at the same time as my niece and her husband therefore a crossover of parking. I myself drive to and park in a road not too far from Northfields Station. I assume that they must be considering CPZs for that area as I too have seen resident boards up saying "Say no to CPZ". I never have a problem parking there even though most of the houses have off street parking thereby reducing the number of spots available and when I return home at approx 4.30 - 5.00p.m. the roads are virtually empty. Seems to me to be a system that works quite well the only advantage to putting CPZs in place in that area would, as I have said before, be extra revenue for the council. |