| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:BROOK ROAD SOUTH AREA CPZ DESIGN CONSULTATION | |
| Posted by: | Raymond Havelock | |
| Date/Time: | 05/04/14 21:34:00 |
| What been suggested is not 1 hour a day. It's two hours. That second hour is to deter parking from other residences outside the designated zone. Giving residents inside the zone most of whom who arrive home well after 5.30. at least a chance to park in their street. It's hardly rocket science. Most CPZ are now the standard format as they are cheaper and easier to enforce by being able to deploy staff from one zone to another and equally effective in deterring all day parking from commuters which only requires a 1 hour ban during the day to have an effect. It also means that residents do not have to shell out extra money for visitors permits. In a 9.30 to 5.30 6 day zone the average cost to all residents for visitor permits is around £160 per year. In Ealing where my brother lives, his permits have jumped up by 300% and he now pays nearly £260 per year for his visitors. All residents, car owners or not have to pay this - unless you never receive visitors or services. We lived in a 10.30 to 19.30 zone and it cost us a fortune in visitor permits and that was just with a few visits a week. It used up £5 minimum a week. It was divisive and hurt those who did not even own a car. It's hugely unfair on elderly who have carer visits, social visits and so on and there are a lot of elderly residents in this area. Those who seem obsessed with having empty streets during the day, when a large number of residents are at work anyway are demonstrating a huge selfish attitude towards those less fortunate and less affluent who will be hit hard by this scheme. One day it could be you who ends up housebound, dependent on visits and lonely. |