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New station parking scheme is an ‘unmitigated disaster’

5:25pm Tuesday 29th December 2009 in


I WRITE in response to the recent letter by Councillor Geoffrey Theobald regarding the Preston Park Station area parking scheme (Letters, December 17). I am amazed at his response.

As a resident of Tivoli Road I stated in my original consultation that displacement would be a severe problem if the scheme was implemented.

When I leave my home in the morning, I am met by train passengers touring the area looking for parking places in roads adjacent to the scheme where they do not have to pay.

When I return in the evening I have to park up to 400 yards from my home.

The present scheme is an unmitigated disaster and Councillor Theobald should respond more constructively than to say we should give the scheme “a few more months to see how it settles down”.

It is plain the scheme is not working and needs a radical and fundamental rethink.

Robert Wall Tivoli Road Brighton

Comments(7)

Surely not says...
5:53pm Tue 29 Dec 09

Sadly the problem is clear - there is no joined-up thinking by the Councillors.

The later shambles in the Preston Park Avenue area have confirmed that fact.

The rain eventually cleared the snow and ice after six days and the Councillors must regret that it does not sort out their traffic problems as well.

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Mary Hinge says...
6:34pm Tue 29 Dec 09

Er wasn't Tivoli Road consulted about whether they wanted to join the scheme, and despite being warned about displacement voted against joining it?

You make your bed....

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Masterchav says...
6:39pm Tue 29 Dec 09

Now you know what people who live in Zone A had to put up with before the fantastic new parking scheme came in.

And I take it you voted against the scheme, thereby hoping that the scheme wouldn't go ahead and we would still have to put up with the parking problems - so that you didn't?

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Suz13 says...
10:00am Wed 30 Dec 09

The scheme is only a disaster for those who opted out. Since the introduction of Zone A I can at last park near my house, instead of having to lug heavy shopping and tired children from two or three streets away. No longer do we have to negotiate double-parked cars, dumped vans and dangerous road-crossing. Tivoli residents have my sympathy (as we had to put up with the even-worse knock-on from Zone Q for five years), but they need to make their case to be included in Zone A as soon as possible, not criticise a scheme which has brought relief and safety to the vast majority.

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S.T. Rewth says...
2:50pm Wed 30 Dec 09

The eventual end to this is disturbing. All roads in B&H will have residents parking zones and everybody pays for a permit or pays at a meter. The council get rich and don't give a fig.

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Fight Back says...
3:10pm Wed 30 Dec 09

So people that voted no are to blame ??? What a stupid arguement - using that theory the council might as well just impose a city wide scheme and have done with it !

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Suz13 says...
3:44pm Wed 30 Dec 09

It's not an "argument", and no-one is "to blame"; no-one wants to pay just to park outside their own home, but that's the way it goes with any council in any busy town or city where the majority of residents and visitors are car owners. Stop trying to turn neighbours against each other - the displacement was obviously going to happen, and at least Tivoli did have a choice, which is more than we did when Zone Q was introduced in Prestonville.

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