| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:The introduction of CPZ's means fewer parking spaces | |
| Posted by: | Alex Shpinkov | |
| Date/Time: | 08/04/13 16:54:00 |
| Michael, first of all thank for the info on the survey of vehicles parking by day and night in Grosvenor Brook and Lateward Roads. It is great to talk with some real numbers, and in fact the council should’ve done such a survey themselves and provided the results to residents. I intentionally wrote about parking in Lateward on Friday. Indeed, one side of the road faces St.Paul’s Grounds and therefore the number of available parking in that road is almost twice the number of households. And even accepting that neighbours (e.g. fro Brook Road South) park there, too (which is absolutely fine) there is no way in the world that both sides of Lateward Road are occupied with the residents of the area. I really appreciate Michael’s note about the survey in Grosvenor Brook and Lateward Roads. But for Grosvenor Brook Road it is quite obvious that majority of cars there indeed belong to the residents – it is a dead-end road and outsiders normally wouldn’t try their luck there. As for the Lateward Road you admit that it is the overspill for the whole area and his survey was before introduction of CPZ in Hamilton Road. If the loss of 80 parking spaces in addition to what has already been lost is true – it is wrong and has to be corrected. It doesn’t have to be this way. Loss of parking due to CPZ is possible in theory, but in reality it is questionable. We have already lost most of potentially losable the parking spaces due to the double yellow lines on the corners. Additional loss will not be significant compared to the non-CPZ parking. In fact there is no loss of parking spaces due to CPZ in Hamilton Road. The only “lost” space is on the Southern side in the very Western end of the road, and even that is due to the introduction of the parking restrictions on corners, if not earlier. And again, real loss of parking spaces is because of the way some (in fact, unfortunately, a lot of) people park. At night I suggest late workers and anyone who has been out in the evening (including myself, as I often come home late and this is why I’m so frustrated about parking in recent years) will park in the places vacated by those who will not be eligible to parking permits. |