| Topic: | Re:Re:CPZ in the Griffin Park area | |
| Posted by: | Jeremy Probert | |
| Date/Time: | 01/04/10 16:02:00 |
| It's fairly simple. I know quite well that the residents of my road have more cars than there are parking spaces. I understand that I will have to buy a parking permit, which fills Hounslow council's coffers. I recognise that, even with my paid-for resident's permit on my windscreen, I may not be able to get a parking space on the road. But. When I don't get a parking space, outside my house or no, it will be because I am competing (yes, competing) for space with people who live on the street or, at the least, in the CPZ. Not with those who've been displaced from other areas with CPZs. Not with the day-trippers and the congestion-charge avoiders. Not with the van men. Someone's already acknowledged, on this thread, that CPZs elsewhere have led people to park on our streets - because we don't have a CPZ. Sorry, but I'd like to live without a CPZ, but I don't want to be the last area in the borough without one - the last bastion of opportunistic free parking. I particularly liked the tacit threats from those in the area who've voted against a CPZ - warning about paintwork damage and damage to wing mirrors that might be inflicted on cars from neighbouring streets who may have the temerity to park on their turf. I've never considered such direct action against vehicles on my street - perhaps because it's both antisocial and illegal. If you've voted against a CPZ, accept the consequences - don't form some sort of ill-conceived Brentford Militia. Finally - while I'm opening myself up to the Forum's vitriol - yes, I moved here knowing full well that there was a football ground. I'm used to hundreds of fans streaming down and up the centre of the road every other Saturday. I accept the drunkenness and the violence and the screaming on the street at midnight. No worries. But, tell me, why can't the fans use public transport? The Mayor wants them to use public transport. The environmental lobby wants them to use public transport. The majority do use public transport. It's the few that clog our streets - and we could live without them. A CPZ on match days would sort it out. |