tallyho
14-04-2005, 17:07
Anybody else sick of fly-parking in Sharrow?
The streets start filling up from just after 8am and are overflowing by 9. Absolutely chocka Monday to Friday and football days and the weekday situation has dramatically worsened since the Broomhall scheme went into operation.
When I leave home and walk to work, I go through Broomhall and marvel at relatively car-free streets (Broomhall Place, Brunswick Street). This area is reserved for residents parking only or in some places parking is restricted to a few hours. What these empty streets represent to me is a lost opportunity for income generation and reduced crime.
Simply put and in lieu of a proper public transport/park and ride scheme, people need/want to park close to work so rather than pushing them around different neighbourhoods, why not implement a (free) residents parking sticker and charge everybody else? The money generated would pay for traffic wardens/surveillance, parking pressure would be shared more fairly, crime would be reduced or at least discouraged and we make the best of a difficult situation. Instead we have this mess where the streets are relatively free one side of Ecclesall Road and overflowing on the other with all the crime, litter, general annoyance (obstruction of pavements, parking on corners) that this entails. I’d like to ASBO the council for causing this state of affairs!
Moreover, increased parking equates to increased opportunities for car crime which ultimately means increased insurance premiums for local residents as crime is recorded by postcode. In other words, when some fat slug of an office worker parks his brand new Merc outside my window (half obstructing the pavement of course), has it broken into and claims on his insurance, my premiums go up!
The streets start filling up from just after 8am and are overflowing by 9. Absolutely chocka Monday to Friday and football days and the weekday situation has dramatically worsened since the Broomhall scheme went into operation.
When I leave home and walk to work, I go through Broomhall and marvel at relatively car-free streets (Broomhall Place, Brunswick Street). This area is reserved for residents parking only or in some places parking is restricted to a few hours. What these empty streets represent to me is a lost opportunity for income generation and reduced crime.
Simply put and in lieu of a proper public transport/park and ride scheme, people need/want to park close to work so rather than pushing them around different neighbourhoods, why not implement a (free) residents parking sticker and charge everybody else? The money generated would pay for traffic wardens/surveillance, parking pressure would be shared more fairly, crime would be reduced or at least discouraged and we make the best of a difficult situation. Instead we have this mess where the streets are relatively free one side of Ecclesall Road and overflowing on the other with all the crime, litter, general annoyance (obstruction of pavements, parking on corners) that this entails. I’d like to ASBO the council for causing this state of affairs!
Moreover, increased parking equates to increased opportunities for car crime which ultimately means increased insurance premiums for local residents as crime is recorded by postcode. In other words, when some fat slug of an office worker parks his brand new Merc outside my window (half obstructing the pavement of course), has it broken into and claims on his insurance, my premiums go up!