Residents only parking in my street
RESIDENTS ONLY parking is theft! Okay, tongue in cheek, but think about it. If every street up and down the country was allocated as "Residents Only Parking", then none of us would have anywhere to park, except outside our own front door. That’s absolute madness.
Where do you park when you go to work? Not everyone works in an industrial estate or office accommodation with allocated parking and how about when you go shopping?
I choose to live in an area where I can park in the street, but have to accept that somebody else can park in the spot I call mine, and there is nothing I can do about it.
So why should somebody be able to prevent me from parking outside his house? Why do people have to get so territorial about the parking space outside their house?
I understand that the councils ask residents if they want residents only parking, and that includes asking residents who don't have a car, or maybe can't drive. But I bet they whinge when their visitors can't park in their allocated space!
It’s just a silly situation and I think that residents only parking should be abolished. I can even name streets with allocated parking for residents where every house actually has a garage accessible from a back-lane. How crazy is that?
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Our Council has "offshored" the issue of visitor's parking permits. We can no longer buy them within our borough at the local environmental shop. Result - we no longer receive visitors, not by car anymore at least. The office that issues them has moved 60 miles away. We cannot get them same day, but have to apply, buy and pay for them several days in advance @ 57p per hour. They are only valid 3 months, when we have to repeat theis whole exercise all over again. Delivery of the tickets is subject to the vagaries of Royal Mail.
We don't and cannot expect to deal with visitors who come unannounced.
We don't and cannot receive tradesmen who arrive by car or van, not even ones we require in an emergency.
We do not have a supply of these tickets.
The system has broken down. This is symptomatic of the bureacracy pervading this country.
Please take responsibility for traffic management away from local councils. They are completely unable to cope with the responsibility.
We don't and cannot expect to deal with visitors who come unannounced.
We don't and cannot receive tradesmen who arrive by car or van, not even ones we require in an emergency.
We do not have a supply of these tickets.
The system has broken down. This is symptomatic of the bureacracy pervading this country.
Please take responsibility for traffic management away from local councils. They are completely unable to cope with the responsibility.
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Take Back Your Rights - 28-Dec-11 09:46
Residents parking and the associated charges should be abolished due to being anti democratic, and illegal. Road Traffic Acts are not fiscal acts and cannot be used for revenue raising.
It does not prevent road tax avoiders from not paying up because wheel clamping on the public highway is also illegal. Council towing is also technically an offence in certain given circumstances
I have not seen streets become less clogged since decriminalised parking enforcement came in. Permit parking is a Council run scam.
It does not prevent road tax avoiders from not paying up because wheel clamping on the public highway is also illegal. Council towing is also technically an offence in certain given circumstances
I have not seen streets become less clogged since decriminalised parking enforcement came in. Permit parking is a Council run scam.
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nick "petrolhead" fe - 7-Jan-11 17:59
cuts crime (through thieves being able to park stolen vehicles on street), forces road tax avoiders to pay up, makes car users pay for using up road space, makes streets less clogged. more pleasant and safer for kids, gives people another incentive to consider public transport. And in fact I can give vouchers to any visitors who can then park in any space, so parking outside one's own property has nothing to do with it. And of course people living in multi-occupancy buildings dont have a space outside their house anyway. I think you rather than ROp should be abolished
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You have no idea of what you are talking about. Oxford is not famous, it is infamous, it has been systematically wrecked by what can only be described as the F**k Y*u school of architecture. It is time to start driving down the student numbers in Oxford. No one should applaud the incompetent berks who pass for town planners in Oxford.
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nick "petrolhead" fe - 7-Nov-10 17:56
the more student accomodation the better. Oxford is a famous university city and students bring diversity and money into our great city. I applaud the council pllanners.
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oxford for me - 7-Nov-10 15:26
Seems that Oxford Council want to greedily build blocks of Student accommodation on all their off street car parks so as to push people into the streets, and as a by product increase the number of PCNs dished out by the Evil NSL parking attendants.
Seems the Council is attempting to obstruct and stop and prevent people from being able to use cars in Oxford by all means possible. Well we are all going to have to make war on the Councillors in revenge, vote them out when the time comes.
Seems the Council is attempting to obstruct and stop and prevent people from being able to use cars in Oxford by all means possible. Well we are all going to have to make war on the Councillors in revenge, vote them out when the time comes.
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nick "petrolhead" fe - 7-Nov-10 15:03
Well, this is getting very interesting SRU, thank you for the intelligence tip, have you seen what KW has said to me on the Oxford Residents Parking gripe.
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nick "petrolhead" fe - 3-Nov-10 00:16
Petrolhead, I definitely read a previous comment by "anon" where she said she was a female top poster who could not give her real name because one or two other people on the site took the mickey out of her or such like. Also I think she may have supported you previously but now she does not and she does not want to come across as being a hypocrite. I mean some of her comments have been mean but you know how GRUMPY some people can be.
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Selfish road user - 2-Nov-10 09:54
My suspicions turned out to be wrong as it was. Bad information to blame there, should not have trusted it or paid attention to it. Generalist owes KW an apology I say.
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nick "petrolhead" fe - 1-Nov-10 23:59
I suspect like Generalist, that KW/Prik/Anon may turn out to be one and the same person. This is only opinion and suspicion, and a personal theory.
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nick "petrolhead" fe - 1-Nov-10 22:07
"he will only cause you grief and criminal trouble if you do."
This is libelous.
This is libelous.
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Just thought I ought to point out that Anon is a complete crank and crackpot, don't bother replying to him he will only cause you grief and criminal trouble if you do.
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nick "petrolhead" fe - 19-Oct-10 00:04
Different areas of different towns have different traffic flows at different times of day so one cannot generalise, allocated parking is a scam racket that is all, it is a revenue raiser for the Councils, as a way to cheat around the Council Tax cap from central government. Your paying for something the Council cannot guarantee you. As the ABD say, all the Government and the Councils are interested in is in making life hell for the motorist, and in using the motorist as a cash cow.
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nick "petrolhead" fe - 2-Oct-10 15:42
"At the end of the day, certain streets in big cities are so busy that you need allocated parking."
I thought they were busier at peak hours than at the end of the day, but one lives and learns.
I thought they were busier at peak hours than at the end of the day, but one lives and learns.
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At the end of the day, certain streets in big cities are so busy that you need allocated parking. If you didn't have it then people just wouldn't live there because they would have to go through an almighty hassle everytime they decided to drive anywhere. It's completely different if you're visiting the area as you have other options (park and ride, take the train, walk, cycle, etc.). It is not really a legitimate option to just park your car miles away from your own home.
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Good one Margo. Let's send the bigots with them too.
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The Lib Dem party support is in absolute free fall, and Oxford City Councillor weakling Patrick Murray is leaving the city, so there is now a by election in Sandhills and Barton Ward, let us use this occasion to give the Lib Dems a damn good kicking, and show the Tories our contempt for residents parking permits and associated charges, and Controlled Parking Zones as a whole.
It is now a two party race between Labour and Ukip, the Tories and the Greens and the Lib Dems are out of the running, they can't win here.
It is now a two party race between Labour and Ukip, the Tories and the Greens and the Lib Dems are out of the running, they can't win here.
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nick "petrolhead" fe - 12-Sep-10 17:24
Student parking in Oxford is an issue, in fact Oxford University students are not supposed to bring cars to Oxford with them, that is a rule of the University. Brookes student parking is becoming a local electoral issue, they are forcing residents cars out of their own streets. They are causing a problem, but Brookes University management won't enforce their own No Car rule for students.
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nick "petrolhead" fe - 2-Sep-10 20:41
"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?
Who are you to say who should or should not have a car?
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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.
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