RPZ (Resident Parking Zones). Bristol say no, but

tomstickland

http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/homepage/Locals-say-Bristol-residents-parking-zones/article-1832505-detail/article.html

The pilot areas have had a no vote return. However, this might not mean an end to the matter.

Personally I hate the idea of RPZ's. The road is the public highway; it's not owned by the houses on the street.

More importantly, this sort of scheme just swallows up money employing a bunch of unproductive staff to administer it.

Then it pushes the problem into the adjoining areas which then feel under pressure to join.

Mankysteve

On the flip side of teh coin shouldn't prioty be given to the householders who live there. I've lived on a road like that and its pain teh !!! when people park outside your house and the nearest space in 10 min walk away.

tomstickland

The RPZ gives no guarantee of a parking space for anyone.

Inactive

Mankysteve wrote: »

On the flip side of teh coin shouldn't prioty be given to the householders who live there. I've lived on a road like that and its pain teh !!! when people park outside your house and the nearest space in 10 min walk away.

Public highway, equal rights to available parking slots, fair for all.

Anybody that requires a guaranteed parking slot should buy a house with a driveway.

lleck

when you live like i do in the last road before the town centre, why should office workers have precident over residents ? Anyway we have had RPS for about 5 years now and its the best £28 per annum I spend

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lleck wrote: »

when you live like i do in the last road before the town centre, why should office workers have precident over residents ?

Because we all pay road tax, which gives us all an equal share of available parking spaces, at least it should do.

Office workers should not have precedent over anyone, nor should people that think they own the road outside their front door.

robredz

tomstickland wrote: »

http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/homepage/Locals-say-Bristol-residents-parking-zones/article-1832505-detail/article.html

The pilot areas have had a no vote return. However, this might not mean an end to the matter.

Personally I hate the idea of RPZ's. The road is the public highway; it's not owned by the houses on the street.

More importantly, this sort of scheme just swallows up money employing a bunch of unproductive staff to administer it.

Then it pushes the problem into the adjoining areas which then feel under pressure to join.

This could go 2 ways, either BCC vote to scrap the scheme, or, most likely will completely ignore the majority no vote, and like the EU and the Irish no, either tell them to vote again and give the right answer this time; or completely ignore the vote and go ahead anyway.

Once in place the £28 would soon become £100 imho, as has been seen elsewhere, or used as part of the AGW scam to charge more for a permit for a resident with a 4 x 4 or a vehicle in the new environmental baseball bat £450 pa V.E.D. class

tomstickland

lleck wrote: »

when you live like i do in the last road before the town centre, why should office workers have precident over residents ? Anyway we have had RPS for about 5 years now and its the best £28 per annum I spend

They don't have precedent. They are allowed to use a space if it's available, just as the householders on the road.
This idea that by buying a house you also stake a claim to the road outside it is wrong.

Kilty_2

Inactive wrote: »

Because we all pay road tax, which gives us all an equal share of available parking spaces, at least it should do.

Office workers should not have precedent over anyone, nor should people that think they own the road outside their front door.

But you don't pay road tax - you pay vehicle excise duty

It's nothing to do with the road itself any more, it's about big bad cars and their effect on the environment / lining MP's expenses accounts.

flyingscotno1

Inactive wrote: »

Because we all pay road tax, which gives us all an equal share of available parking spaces, at least it should do.

Office workers should not have precedent over anyone, nor should people that think they own the road outside their front door.

I can understand that, but I do think a certain preference has to be given to locals where demand strips supply rather than those who commute and walk.

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flyingscotno1 wrote: »

I can understand that, but I do think a certain preference has to be given to locals where demand strips supply rather than those who commute and walk.

Why? You didn't buy a section of the public highway, so you don't own it, others have exactly the same rights as residents, as I have said before, if you must have a guaranteed parking space, buy a house with a driveway.

Sorted.;)