| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Hamilton Road C.P.Z. to happen! | |
| Posted by: | Jeremy Probert | |
| Date/Time: | 03/08/12 14:18:00 |
| One of the reasons why I - as a resident of Hamilton Road - am in favour of a CPZ is because I have three children who walk to school each morning and are at real risk of being mown down by the commuters who wait at the top of the road and then speed down hell for leather when a space becomes available. Obviously, the residents of adjacent roads were not thinking about the kids on Hamilton Road when they responded to the 2010 consultation on a CPZ. Let's also remember that this is a one-hour-a-day CPZ. What it does is stop commuters and people with vehicles they either can't park in their own roads, or don't because they haven't got a permit. Light goods vehicles mostly. A one-hour-a-day CPZ does not stop short stay parking, or visitors to local residents. CPZs are being implemented elsewhere in the borough at a rate of knots. This is displacing traffic into our roads, and causing the dramatic worsening of the situation in Hamilton Road. It is going to continue. We all had a say in 2010, but roads other than Hamilton, which were maybe less affected at the time, indicated they didn't want a CPZ. Now these same residents are seeing it's a problem, and are starting to worry about traffic on their streets. Sorry people - as ye sow, so shall ye reap. Finally - I'm just a little bit taken aback by some of the comments here. The direct ('morons') and the indirect (something about our CPZ stopping wage-earners and taxpayers parking when they use the station - so we, the residents, are workshy tax-dodgers, is that what's being said?) and the blatantly Daily Mail (please please think about the children you're going to injure with your CPZ). It's a parking scheme. It will mitigate against the increasing parking problems we have on Hamilton Road. It will not solve the problems. I will not be able to park outside my house. But it will be better. If everyone else wants that, then - as I say - there was a chance in 2010 and it was rejected. |