| Topic: | Re:Re:CPZ Consultation in Brentford | |
| Posted by: | Bernadette Paul | |
| Date/Time: | 19/08/09 14:14:00 |
| I have absolutely no axe to grind but I cannot understand why you want to give even more money to the local council just in the hope of being able to park outside your house. I live in a flat with a car park for residents but it doesn't stop strangers parking and wondering off. I watched two different drivers do it last night. It's annoying but its just something we have learned to live with. My niece lives in South Ealing where they have a CPZ I went to visit her on Friday evening before 7.30 and she had to provide me with a ticket to put on my car and these are obviously at an additional expense to her which she was complaining about. Evidently a friend that was visiting her the other week got a ticket at 10.04 when the restrictions begin at 10.00a.m. - £60 for visiting a friend! Someone I work with lives in Silver Crescent just opp Gunnersbury Station and she is not happy about the cost of the permits and visitors tickets she has to purchase and doesn't think parking in her street has become very much easier. The Chiswick website has several postings of residents who did not receive renewal notices from the council and received parking tickets because their permits had expired. All these things can happen to anyone at any time and you appear to actively want to join in and chuck more money at the council and put more people at risk of huge fines! I really don't understand. My daughter lives in Braemar Road for goodness sake and it's a rare thing for her to be unable to park except obviously on match days when clearly you don't go out in the car if you want to come back before the match is over. Everyone knows that. What's the problem? I live opposite the library and last night I must admit I observed several vehicles parked beside the library at the E2 bus stop which was clearly ridiculous as the buses couldn't pass and had to come out of Windmill Road on the wrong side of the road. Clearly those vehicles should be ticketed but it was presumably too late for parking wardens so I suspect the situation you describe in Hamilton Road would have occurred whether there was a CPZ or not as they are not effective 24 hrs a day. |