Fleurpepper
Dickens
Treebee
I agree in theory. But here the roads in new estates are so narrow that parked cars, even on just one side of the road, would mean that a fire engine couldn’t get past without cars parking half on the pavement .The houses I’m thinking of where DD2 used to live, are terraced with no garage or parking space. A real problem.
We have a similar problem in my small Cotswolds town. The roads were not built for the traffic we have today.
It's all very well calling for a total ban on pavement parking but - in my street if cars did not, at certain points, park partly on the pavement, cars would not even be able to pass each other, let alone an emergency service vehicle get through.
So, no - I don't think there should be a complete ban. If cars could not pass each other, it would cause huge jams in the street and enormous tailbacks.
The problem is with careless and selfish car owners who don't park carefully - because if you do, there is still room for pedestrians, wheelchairs and prams to get through.
People need cars to get to work. The bus service is inadequate and expensive - and for those with an early start and late finish - non existent. We are a terraced street so there are no other places to park.
Perhaps if the country had a proper, joined up transport system that was run for the purpose of moving people around instead of, as in some instances, subsidising corporate profit -and with a reasonable charge rather than the extortionate cost we are expected to pay - fewer people would have fewer cars.
This is the result of the 1985 privatisation and de-regulation of public transport.
Get the council to provide a parking area just outside the village, and walk to your door. Drop off only for shopping, or mobility issues. This is what happens in many 'no traffic' villages and towns in other countries. Quite simple, really.
Get the council to provide a parking area just outside the village, and walk to your door. Drop off only for shopping, or mobility issues. This is what happens in many 'no traffic' villages and towns in other countries. Quite simple, really.
Apart from the fact that getting the council to do anything is a work of relentless discussion, phone calls, emails, meetings and procrastination, we don't live in a village - it's a small town which ends at each end with country lanes, and unless the council were to nab someone's piece of farm land for a car park (and it would need to be pretty big) - there is no area that could be used for parking. The nearest space that could be used is in the next town - quite a big one, which has its own parking problems, and is too far away to make it a feasible option, even if the residents were cool with the idea. No one is going to walk 15 miles from a car park to their home. And public transport is infrequent, and in the evening virtually non-existent.
The land is just not available.
Simple, in theory, but not practical in this instance.
