| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Hamilton Road C.P.Z. to happen! | |
| Posted by: | Alan Branch | |
| Date/Time: | 08/08/12 11:45:00 |
| The CPZ implementation has been going on because that is the council's plan to slowly ring fence as many roads as possible into introducing a CPZ. You only have to look at the profits other Council's have tried and tested to see the plan working. There will be no surprise if the current proposed cost of parking doubles within a few years. The council have never answered my question of why they are doing this on a road-by-road basis, apart from one young council employee at a public CPZ display who said they would never get it passed any other way! If residents think this will guarantee a place to park you maybe wrong, the bays reduce the space for parking and what if there are more resident’s cars than the street can accommodate? The reason as I remember the previous consultation never went ahead was the out poring of anti CPZ residents and the trouble they would have getting it through the Statutory Consultation phase. Matt Harmer has already told me this as the council defence against CPZ's for making money. But failed to explain why the planning is done on a road-by-road procedure, when this obviously affects all of us - eventually. Hence my opinion this is another tax to be imposed one way or another. If the council could show a proper planned Zone for the whole area of Brentford like they have with the station, with properly and well thought out traffic flow then I would happily vote either way until then they will continue hiding behind the excuse that it's what the people want on a road by road basis. The council is not on our side here otherwise why would they carry out such a flawed plan this is not good for everyone in the neighbourhood. Isn’t that what the council is for? The best for everyone not just a few. But a lot of councils are introducing CPZ via this slow blackmailing way of creeping CPZ's and proving what a money-spinner it is by creating CPZ’s road-by-road, I feel we have no chance of ever stopping this. This CPZ just causes division, upset and increased danger to our surrounding roads. |