Residents only parking is theft

"Students are the problem, that is an undeniable fact. They should not have cars"

Who are you to say who should or should not have a car?

Students are the problem, that is an undeniable fact. They should not have cars, also one of the biggest root causes of the problem is houses of multiple occupation, especially where terraced houses without garages have been turned into HMOs. Residents parking is a cash cow revenue generator for local Councils, they use it as a means to be able to subvert the Council Tax Cap, which is what the naughty Conservative County Council in Oxford have been doing, I caught them red handed, bang to rights doing it, and I exposed them for it.

I completely disagree. The area I live in is ten minutes walk from the University so during term time the area is flooded with students and staff all using the area as a free car park. Plenty of paid for parking is available nearer to the uni, but obviously most people aren't going to pay when they can park for free! What this means as a resident is if you go out in your car during the day, within a few minutes(never more than five) someone will have parked in the now vacant space and then on your return you have to drive round the whole area hoping to find another space to park, often many streets away from your own!

What people need to do is lobby Councillors and MPs, and start local pressure/protest groups, take your campaigns to the local government ombudsman if you feel the Residents Parking consultation by the Council was not conducted lawfully or fairly. Talk to the local press, and get up local petitions to oppose all Residents Parking/Controlled Parking Zones, that is what we have been doing in Oxford, to great effect, where I run Residents Against The Parking Tax. Get in touch with the ABD and the Drivers Alliance, and the No Tolls campaign, and speak with Neil Herron, and visit the website of RMB Consulting for advice on how to protest illegal parking restrictions/tickets.

Well I can see your point but if all the people who only visited or worked near town used the residents parking spaces of the people who lived in the town, where would they park? I live in the centre of the town where I have to use a car park to park my car which is about 800 yerds away from where I live. due to parking restrictions everywhere. I live in the centre of town due to necessity not because I want to live there. Although this is a pain especially when I have bags of shopping with me. the major problem I have is when I have to use my car during the day and try to get back home. I find I have no where to park at all as the car parks are full. All the streets close by only have parking for an hour. The shops and the pubs will clamp you if you use their spaces regardless of whether they are busy or not. I cant believe that in this day and age of when everyone has cars there can be accomodation to rent without any residents parking facilities near where you live. I have already had one car so badly damaged on the car park that it was classed as a write off due to careless people parking too close and hitting my side panel. Im not talking about a slight dent here Im talking about someone bashing my car so hard that the side panel was so bad the insurance company wrote it off. Why someone felt the need to do that is beyond me. So all you people out there that do have residents parking good on you. Im trying to find a place to move to that I can afford and that has at least a street in front of my residence that I can use to park.

I agree. I am trying to persuade local residents and the council NOT to introduce R.O.P. in my area

Because people find parking 1/4mile from their home inconvenient, when freeloaders decide that they don't want to pay to park in an allocated parking zone, such as a carpark, but want to impose the cost of parking on other people (residents in otherwise ROP).

Because people don't share your sense of 'what's yours is mine and what's mine is yours'?

Because there are places to park even if the whole country went ROP.

We have just had ROP introduced in our street in Bedford. I was not for or against it, but I was naive! The council have reduced the parking spaces by a third by drawing lots of double yellow lines. So now in the day there are lots of spaces as no commuters but at night and at weekends there are very few or no spaces!! So all in all I preferred it before ROP.

Our family has three cars which all fit on our drive, they are never parked on the road, yet smaller cars that pay little or no road tax,- block up the street making it an obstacle course for other drivers, I see it that our road tax should be reduced and the street blockers increased.

I like to park my car outside my own house for several reasons. The main one being the ability to keep an eye on my car. My car, like others in the road has been vandalised and damaged over the years. Also, loading and unloading is much easier when your car is right on your doorstep. I think the crux of this issue is down to the limited number of parking spaces and households who own more than one car. Why should one household take up two or three parking spaces. Each household should be issued ONE parking space. If you want another then you have to pay for it. As for visitors, they should be considerate for the residents parking requirements. I dont like it when someone "nicks my space". Anyone who damages someones car for no reason should be bull whipped in a public place.

I think this whole parking issue comes about because there are too many cars on the road. So many students at the local college have learnt to drive. It's ridiculous! I don't drive I'm pleased to say. I have the common sense to realise that everywhere you go, there are parking problems. I just wish half the nation woke up to this reality and stopped driving. This way we wouldn't have parking problems!

I am totally against residents only parking. What about visitors???