Failing
to solve problem
Sir, – Presumably the idea behind any residents' parking scheme is to improve matters for the residents themselves. The latest set of proposals for further restricting street
parking in the neighbourhood of Farnham Station fail to achieve this in the case of the residents of St George's Road.
These people represent the majority of those without
off-street parking in the
proposed extensions to the
controlled zones.
St George's Road is the only road which is wholly within the controlled zone where no
residents' parking facilities are proposed. Obviously, the
non-residents who wish to park near the station will start
parking there – making it even harder for the residents to find parking spaces.
If we must have a residents' parking scheme, (and the
situation recently has been nowhere nearly as bad as it was a few months ago), then the obvious solution seems to be to allow residents of St George's Road to purchase residents' parking permits for the
neighbouring roads – most of whose residents have their own
off-street parking.
Many of the residents of St George's Road already park in Morley Road. This helps to relieve the congestion in St George's Road. Would it not be sensible to allow them to continue to do so?
Our masters, (who should be our servants), say that they wish to encourage people to use public transport. Yet, the people who cause the parking problem are those who use the train to travel up to London!
Do we wish to encourage these people to use their cars to cover more of the journey – making traffic congestion and parking problems worse for others ?
Michael Boon
Morley Road, Farnham