You would think you were the only people who have to collect children at a moments notice. Don't you think many others have to do the same?Our small child is disabled but we use the buses when we need help from her grandparents in the same area and vice versa. It is often as quick as the car, it is never really a problem for a 75yr or 5 yr old. When it is we'll use a car. We both work long hours too, not by choice either. But we try only to use a car for distances or carrying goods. I don't really care what people use their cars for, but the excuses justifying use are as though no-one else has the same problems. But over short distances and in a district with good bus services and safe urban streets? As it stood, the CPZ did not involve the whole block from Hamilton to the High street and objections came from those streets outside of the consultation who quite rightly knew that they would be the unfair casualties of the nimbyism of streets near the station. The general tone is no to a CPZ but an even bigger no to getting another streets problem dumped on them. Cars have been around for a long time and no-one buys a house near a station without knowing that you will endure commuter traffic, just like those who move in around a football ground and then complain about the noise and crowds. However, if you live somewhere and suddenly a football ground is foisted upon you or a parking problem is transferred to your street then you would have cause to complain.As for vans, well in Ealing where I grew up long before CPZs the council banned residents who parked fleets of vans in their and surrounding streets.It was a result of a company called Phone a Van who parked a fleet of 3 vehicles in a small street but a year later had 23 vehicles filling 5 streetsThe restriction was over wheelbase or axle weight and a maximum of two vehicles on the proviso that the drivers lived at the address registered.The maximum size was a standard transit, and small SWB low height box vans. Ironically taxation classes meant long wheelbase vans were only used by large operators and were seldom used by owner residents.I wonder how you, me or anyone else would feel if you had a resident with a fleet of 3 or 4 LWB vans as your next door neighbour? That's 10 car parking spaces.Brook Road this afternoon has 4 long wheelbase Mercedes- vans 2 Luton vans, 3 standard transits, a Transit low loader and a flatbed truck. Not all will be there tonight but most will. No-one seems to know who owns them, if it were me I would park them in the next road to avoid any conflict with immediate neighbours - which is what must be happening.
Anthony Waller ● 5488d