Residents only parking is theft

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???

One day on September 2007 I was visiting Norwich and decided to park my car outside the city centre and looked for a convenient spot for me to park in order to have a pleasant walk into the city centre.

I parked near to the airport in Heath Crescent close to Cromer Road  there were no signs mentioning residents parking or access only for motor vehicles, so having paid my road tax I was entitled to drive along there and I parked my car without obstructing any driveways or anything. Some of the cars already parked were more obstructive than mine.

When I got back a message was put under my windscreen and it read This is not a public parking space.

I took a photograph of this and around the middle of December I sent a Christmas card to all residents on this road wishing them a Merry Christmas with a print of the photograph and comment referring to one neighbour being something of a spoilsport for visitors.

I will park my car there again next time I visit.

You are breaking the law and admitting to criminal damage and vandalism you utter lowlives

"Wordmaster, paint stripper is also a very good deterrent. I believe brake fluid also has a similar effect on paintwork. If you're feeling less mean then shaving foam would also send a message."

This is why retards shouldn't be allowed to use computers - A friend of mine is an therapist in Oxford, helping severely injured patients learn to walk, use cutlery, speak etc.
As she works at the hospital, she's not allowed to park in the hospital grounds, but as she makes house calls she needs her car, so parks in an 'open' strreet near work.
She was out to visit a patient one day to find that some idiot had smeared every window of her car with thick 'axle' grease as a protest to her parking in an open street because she was a hosptial worked.

Idiots like you should be castrated before you get the chance to breed

Wordmaster, paint stripper is also a very good deterrent. I believe brake fluid also has a similar effect on paintwork. If you're feeling less mean then shaving foam would also send a message.

What an idiot. I live in a flat with allocated parking. My parking space is clearly marked on my deeds. I do not drive but my daughter does, as do all of my friends. As I am paying for this parking space I do not see why somebody else in one of these flats, who has more than one car should use my space. Just because it appears to be unused, that doesn't mean that it is unused. It also doesn't mean that somebody else can claim this space for their own when I have legal documentation stating that it is mine. Why should my daughter and my friends struggle to find somewhere to park when I have my own alocated parking space? Not my problem if one of my neighbours has two cars and needs an extra space. He should have moved somewhere where he had room for two cars.This is all about basic rights and because I have legal documentation stating my claim to this space, my right to use it overrides anybody elses. Of course this doesn't stop anybody from trying to use it but they soon stop when I get my daughter to park across their car, forbidding their exit.

It all comes down to circumstance! I am extremely annoyed that every time I come home from work I am unable to park outside my house. I have a brand new 08 plate car and I have to park it on the grass at the end of the street. My next door neignours have 6 cars! 2 Army trucks, a Landrover, their son has 2 cars and the other 1. They are both teenagers and always have their friends parking in the street. They have a system to make sure they can park at all times, when one car is moving they move another one straight into it's place. It is a joke. Each house should have 1 car space aallocated to it! I cannot beleeive you think it is fair for people to be able to park where ever they want.

Strictly speaking, and according to the law, nobody has the legal right to park on any road at any time. Needless to say it is impossible to enforce totally and people should consider others when parking. Unfortunately that is where most problems arise today. People simply do not care about others anymore. We live in an "I'm alright Jack, sod the rest of you" society these days. I can understand resident only parking in certain circumstances such as near to a football ground etc. but not just as a method of raising revenue for the local council.
I'm fortunate in that I have off-road parking outside my house. The parking space actually appears in the deeds of the property so it is without doubt mine. Do you think it stops people parking there???