It's already been done in most parts of Brentford . From just the BRS area, we've had the lines for a few years before this years CPZ. It's common sense for safety and clarity.But... People getting tickets at 8am on Saturday& Sunday mornings when the streets are quiet and full of parked vehicles, and they are only picking up kids for football and swimming bear testimony to the alterior motive. Days when no large vehicles should be operating in any case - which was the key justification for the implementation of these restrictions. Target ticket bombing should not be permitted in this way. There's several problems fro this new consultation.1. Serco need to increase revenue and therefore find ways to issue more fines,as a matter of course their 'clients' get a slice of the pickings.They are exerting heavy pressure on Ealing, Brent and Hounslow to ratchet up parking charges and 'screw' residents for as much as possible. Ealing have already taken a big bite of this Adam's Apple and with no consultation with residents partnerships which had certain guarantees incorporated into CPZs.2. This leads to wardens 'preying' upon people. Pre CPZ they used to prey on elderly using the Hairdressers in Brook Road who would park on the only available spaces - the yellow lines to pick up elderly customers. Worse still they would wait in cars also parked on the yellow lines!Another warden did this on Saturday and Sunday mornings, hiding in a car and then leaping out with a ticket.Since the CPZ, this has abated during the week as it's so much easier to park legally for a few mins. That's good for local small business and elderly and dependent residents. 3. It's a good thing to keep the dropped kerb areas of a junction clear in smaller roads so one can see clearly and makes it better for drivers as well.Cars are not such a problem but large 4WDs, Vans and small trucks on the ends of the streets can be a real problem. Something else which has abated since the CPZ.4. It's about right here. It ain't broke so don't try to fix it.The planners for the CPZ agreed to shorten the length of most of the yellow line areas as far too many spaces would have been lost for no good reason and adopted the shorter version as used in Hammesmith and Westminster for smaller streets. This needs to be retained. If we end up with the usual LBH "one size fits all" then we will end up with lengthy yellow lines all over the place.
Raymond Havelock ● 3673d