| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Hamilton Road C.P.Z. to happen! | |
| Posted by: | Michael Brandt | |
| Date/Time: | 11/08/12 10:47:00 |
| Sorry to say but if you think a CPZ is going to get you a parking space outside your home or even in your street, you are fooling yourself. Only one street in this area has off street parking and that is for just a small number of residences, all the others have the same problems as Hamilton road. The difference is that Hamilton road houses are larger than in the other streets and have bigger households and thus more cars per household. Not the fault of the commuters or other residents that there are too many cars for the street. The blunt fact is there are more residents cars than spaces and that will not change with a CPZ. All that will change is the street will be devoid of commuters cars during the day when many residents are at work- hence spaces. I have lived in a CPZ near a station and yes it made the streets easy to park in -if you happen to be around during the day. But after 7.30pm it was the same as it ever was. Only worse as yellow lines and other restrictions came in with the CPZ and reduced further the space available. This will be the same for Hamilton Road. Only the division it will create will mean Hamilton road residents parking their cars in other streets to either evade a permit or because they still can't park, will be far from welcome. In other places where this has happened, it has become a regular feature of finding ones car with 4 flat tyres, keyed paintwork and worse, such is the anger stirred up. Don't think the charges won't get hiked either. Just take a short walk into South Ealing and ask what residents think about the 67% hike in permits last year and the 48% hike for this coming year - or the £5 a day visitors permits with no concessions for the old or infirm. This is in spite of the fact that a previous administration wrote in stone that the CPZs would be a resident led service and never be used as a revenue raiser. 6 years on that is now a folklore myth. Think too, about those who rely on visitors, the elderly and lonely. CPZs have put a lot of older people off visiting by car and taking elderly out for visits. Simply because wardens ticket them in the few minutes it can take to collect a frail person and get them into a car. See what happens when a slightly senile person tries to find or fill in a visitors permit. See the distress it causes when a ticket gets issued as a consequence. That is really good for a 'caring' community. You and I will be paying for something that will bring no benefit unless you are at home in the day Would you pay for an empty bottle of milk? Because that is what we will get. |