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Residential parking in Oxford

My gripe is about Oxford City Council who have a crazy scheme to introduce residential parking all over Oxford.  In the area I work (Summertown) they recently held a meeting so residents and the public could air their view.  

The outcome was that the majority of residents were not in favour of the scheme as there is plenty of parking in this area (even when the rush hour has arrived) and they resent the way they will have to apply to park outside their own homes and in some cases pay for the privilege to do so.

Result: The Council are going ahead - for the good of the residents.  Are they mad?

They say that the new Park and Ride being built in Kidlington will take the demand.  This in itself is crazy as the location of this Park and Ride smack band in the middle of an existing traffic hot spot (almost stand still in the rush hour).

Yes I drive a car to work.  Is this a crime because the way I am being treated makes me feel as if I have done something wrong.  If there was another practical cost effective commuting solution - I would take it.

I feel this is a vendetta against motorists in order to exclude commuters like myself from parking in the many available spaces in the Summertown streets.  In most cases - we commuters are considerate to the local residents - ensuring we do not block them in and allowing plenty of space for them to manoeuvre.

Even when the rush hour has arrived each morning - there are still plenty of free spaces so I do not feel it is fair to say we are depriving local residents of their rights to park.  I used to use the local pay and display car parks until I was forced into the streets by exorbitant price increases.

Residential parking in Oxford City - parking mayhem! I live in Witney and am aware of the various forms of public transport.  I have tried to use them in the past but they are completely inadequate.  To do so would steal an additional 3 hours from my life each working day.  I was educated in Oxford and used to bus daily.  At this time - the bus from Witney would alternate its route via Botley and then Summertown.  However when I commenced work - the Summertown routes were scrapped.  Thus from my experience - public transport has let me down and forced me into a car.

Even using the park and ride will impact my daily journey for at least an additional hour and in my case increase pollution as I will be forced to head out of the city and then double back on the bus. I also feel there will be considerable traffic bottlenecks created by concentrating vehicles into areas surrounding the Park and Ride.

I wonder what the residents of Kidlingdon will feel as the Summertown commuters descend on their already overloaded traffic system.  Oxford has recently been criticised as having the worst transport system in the UK resulting in an article on BBC Top Gear.  The strategy is to impact the car drivers - forcing them to use alternatives.  What is not considered - is the fact that there are no practical alternatives - such commuters are forced to continue using theirs cars in a system that has reduced in its ability to cope.

I pay my local and Government taxes including a road tax, which should entitle me to some rights yet it seems to me we commuters are being treated as second class citizens simply because we do not live locally.

We bring considerable revenue into the area.  I calculated that I have spent over 1500 last year with Summertown businesses.  I saw an article recently in the Oxford Mail stating these businesses felt they would not be impacted by the introduction of this scheme.  However - I beg to differ.  They simply are not considering the sizeable revenue delivered by us commuters.  This scheme will force us away from the area and potentially steal more money from our pockets. This extra money will have to come from somewhere and people will cut back on lunches, luxury purchases etc.  I know I will be bringing in sandwiches and voting with my pocket if this scheme is introduced as it seems this is the only message that is understood.  I will be urging other people affected to do the same.

Finally and I also think most importantly, is the impact this scheme will have on working parents with children in school.  The Government is keen to encourage parents - especially mothers - back into work.  They rely on their cars to drop their children off and then commute to work. There is simply no practical way they can do this using public transport.  Even the introduction of using the Park and Ride will reduce the number hours they can work.  It will also potentially put their children under additional risk if they are late picking them up due to public transport delays out of their control (full/late bus, additional journey, strikes, overloaded traffic queues leaving/entering the parking area).

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It must be a very long meeting.....or secret

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Bemused onlooker - 25-Nov-11 07:45 

The anti CPZ meeting on Monday, at 7.30pm is going to be held at the old Church in Magdalen Road, in East Oxford, the meeting is going to be hosted by the Cowley Road Carnival committee. They need to go heavy on the student car parking problem, and address the issue of student HMO control, as well.
Students should all be housed in accommodation blocks, on sites outside of the Oxford ring road, somewhere out near the M40.

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Nick "petrolhead" Fe - 26-Oct-11 14:10 

The post on 17 October at 06.44 was posted by an imposter posing as the real Nick "Petrolhead" Fell. I am the real Nick "Petrolhead" Fell posting now. I have just learnt that there is a big meeting being organised by the Cowley Road Carnival Committee, regarding the latest Magdalen Road CPZ proposals, being held next Monday at 7.30pm.
Once more I emphasis that Nick "Petrolhead" Fell is a protected trademark, to be used only in connection with the Association of British Drivers, and Nick "Petrolhead" Fell, and Residents Against The Parking Tax. it is the sole property and intellectual property rights of Nick "Petrolhead" Fell. Any un authorised use or misuse by others will result in prosecution.

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Nick "petrolhead" Fe - 25-Oct-11 13:20 

I am going to be coordinating a new campaign against the latest round of the Magdalen Road CPZ scheme, because Oxfordshire County Council have got 257,000 from Oxford University to fund the works. This looks like a back hander.
I have also heard on the information mill, that my friend Sietske Boeles from South Field Road, is going to be standing as a candidate in the 2012 City Council Elections in Oxford.

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nick "petrolhead" fe - 9-Oct-11 18:14 

Councillor Rodney Rose at Oxfordshire County Council, he from the village of Milton Under Wychwood, has dared to threaten to increase the Residents Parking Permit charge by another £25 to take the price to £75.
I am going to conduct a firestorm internet campaign against Mr Rodney Rose, in opposition to his plans. I am going to be contacting the Association of British Drivers over this issue for support of my campaign against Rodney Rose.

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nick "petrolhead" fe - 22-Jul-11 13:33 

Oxford Council now are about to stage a double Whammy to drivers, because they are about to take away all the parking bays along the Iffley Road, while at the same time pressing ahead with taking away the off street car park in St Clements, so robbing the area of yet more well needed capacity.
The side streets will become inundated with cars, as a result of the policies of the anti car fanatic brigade. So the side streets between the Iffley Road and the Cowley Road will become a battle ground between drivers fighting over a finite number of on street parking bays. The same thing will happen in the side streets in Iffley Fields. The Council this time have gone too far, and they need to be forcibly removed by coup d'etat.

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nick "petrolhead" fe - 21-Jul-11 13:10 

I would give a lot for you to crawl back under whatever retarded stone you appeared from.

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Conker - 15-Jul-11 22:50 

Seems it was the Waitrose Car Park, Headington, yet another off street PPC, totally unenforceable.

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nick "petrolhead" fe - 15-Jul-11 19:22 

There is a parking ticket from Oxford, Headington, by a Mr JPS, logged up on Pepipoo, seems he has won the case on a wrong registration Technicality.
I would give a lot to know which street it was issued in.

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nick "petrolhead" fe - 15-Jul-11 19:19 

Association of British Drivers AGM is by invitation only, and is for members only. Controlled Parking Zones will be on the agenda, and I will be taking questions from the floor, having filled my appointed 20 minute speaking slot.
I will be holding a workshop giving advice on how to beat and appeal parking tickets.

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nick "petrolhead" fe - 6-Jul-11 14:14 

Will be speaking for 25 minutes at ABD annual general meeting, will then be hosting a half day workshop into how to beat parking tickets.

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nick "petrolhead" fe - 5-Jul-11 14:39 

How much does it cost to tether your mule in Turl Street after 10pm? Do you get a discount at the porter's lodge for the manure supplied overnight?

May Archbishop Cramner burn in hell for introducing the 49 articles of faith regarding parking bye-laws in the Oxford area. May his hand burn for issuing a ticket in Broad Street near the bonfire.

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Livery Stable in the Kingstoun - 13-Jun-11 23:40 

I have received an invitation to the Association of British Drivers AGM in Warwickshire, at the Gaydon Motor Heritage Centre in July.
I have decided to accept, and will be attending.

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nick "petrolhead" fe - 13-Jun-11 20:25 

Do people still actually park cars in Oxford? That there is a one-horse town, unfit for modern mechanisation, streets are only a donkey wide. Weird population too, all dressed in some medieval monastic uniform, all talking a load of nonsense. Bah! won't ever bother going there. Not worth the time or money.

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Driver X - 13-May-11 23:31 

Columbo, I disagree with a lot of what Nick Fell says and , as I don’t live in Oxford, have very little interest in this thread.

However, Nick has as much right to express his opinion as the rest of us do, and hasn’t actually posted for about 5 weeks. It seems to me that you are just hoping he will post now to defend himself so that you can insult him and wind him up a bit, probably using a different name. He isn’t doing any harm so why not leave him alone?

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Carrot - 13-May-11 19:10 

I have not looked at this site in months as it was all getting toooo boring with the same people posting the same words over and over again just in a different order.

I think I will leave it again as the likes of Nick Fell have nothing new to say or add to this discussion.

It has all been said before - many thousands of times!

Cant the admin either change the name of the gripe to Nick Fell's blog or get rid of it all together?

Nick is Nick - he will NEVER change - he will always be a parking bore.

There are far more important things to worry about in the country today rather than residents only parking areas in Oxford!

Come on now give it a rest PLEASE - everything that can be said has been, move on.

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Columbo - 13-May-11 16:39 

Yes and? whats your point Dick? Ever get the feelin youre talking to yourself? take the hint no one cares go and measure the road markings in the middle of the M40.

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Danny Kendall - 8-Apr-11 20:19 

Parking in both circus street and stockmore street in Cowley, Oxford, is about to be disrupted due to resurfacing works. Which means that the on street parking bays will have to be remarked as well. Even though they were remarked just a few months earlier, in order to make them compliant.

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nick "petrolhead" fe - 8-Apr-11 11:41 

Because the anti car brigade at Cyclox offer no solutions to the real problem.
The Green environmental brigade are an exhausted wrong headed movement who have no ideas about anything. They are stuck in protest and the past. Environmentalism is irrational, and in some cases anti progress, anti science, anti rationality. Above all they are dangerous, misinformed and ignorant.

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nick "petrolhead" fe - 2-Apr-11 12:12 

" It beats me why anyone bothers listening to the views of the anti car fanatic cyclist brigade"

It beats me why anyone bothers listening to the views of the pro car fanatic air polluting brigade.

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Digsy - 2-Apr-11 01:57 

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