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Residential parking in Oxford

Parking in Oxford

So what's the latest crazy scheme Oxford City Council has come up with? Fed up with pay and display everywhere? Share your views and concerns about parking in and around Oxford on this discussion forum.



My gripe is about Oxford City Council who have a crazy scheme to introduce residential parking all over Oxford.

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01-9-2010 Anyone who wants to have their say about Controlled Parking Zones and Residents Parking Permits and charges, should attend the meeting on September 7th at County Hall, between 7.30pm and 9pm, called The Big Debate. Members of the public will be able to speak. Likewise I would encourage Headington traders to go to this meeting who want a rebate on their business rates due to the Ash Ridge roadworks, its time we held them to account.nick "petrolhead" fell
30-8-2010 The reason for different timings that I have heard from Council officials is so as to cause faster turn over of parking spaces, so that drivers don't stay as long in any one parking bay, so that they get used more often by more people. Not that I believe this hogwash myself, I don't buy it. The other idea apparently is to discourage long stay commuters from parking on street, so as to push them into expensive pay and display car parks. It is all about surveillance and control by the state.nick "petrolhead" fell
29-8-2010 I live in a Residentially Parking Controlled area: we have a CPZ. None of my wishing for it. It was foisted upon us, by little olde dears voting for it -non owners of cars believing they would benefit. It has cost them dear. The CPZ is nothing but a scam. The CPZ is tiny sub-parish zone, a few streets wide. Am I a resident of my borough? Why can't I use any of the borough's streets to park in. I have paid. I have paid the same as everyone else. Why do all the CPZs have different timings: to confuse us into making costly mistakes. BAH!Down with CPZs
29-8-2010 B J Blackburn, from St Bernards Road Oxford, made a good point in the Oxford Times Letters Page, issue for Thursday August 26th, 2010, in his letter titled One For All, in which he says that the zoning of Residents Parking Permits is stupid, and he calls for one permit able to be used right across the City in all areas, I have to say I think this is a very sensible step, and a highly practical one at that, but in the end I would rather see the total abolition of this evil and iniquitous system, than its retention in whatever form.nick "petrolhead" fell
23-8-2010 Park and drive as run by the Brain Dead consortium: Cambridge park & drive Trumpington. Price for the return bus = £2-30p to be bought from the machine in cash. £2 coins NOT accepted. No change issued. £2-60p if ticket bought on bus = rip-off. Last bus on a Sunday from city centre = 17:59. No we really must not be naughty boys and girls and stay out late. No overnight parking. So don't spend a weekend in Cambridge. Your car will probably be crushed. The dumbo in the glass house at the Trumpington Park & Ride does not issue change for the ticket machines. Never use a P&R again.Visiteur from 12th Century
22-8-2010 Park and drive as run by the Brain Dead consortium: Cambridge park & drive Trumpington. Price for the return bus = £2-30p to be bought from the machine in cash. £2 coins NOT accepted. No change issued. £2-60p if ticket bought on bus = rip-off. Last bus on a Sunday from city centre = 17:59. No we really must not be naughty boys and girls and stay out late. No overnight parking. So don't spend a weekend in Cambridge. Your car will probably be crushed. The dumbo in the glass house at the Trumpington Park & Ride does not issue change for the ticket machines. Never use a P&R again.Visiteur from 12th Century
20-8-2010 Both the political will would be there, and the financial backing if only we could get out of the EU, which is nothing but a scam racket, if we were not paying in millions every day to this inordinately expensive jobs for the boys club, the money could go instead into public infrastructure projects. I happen to know that UKIP have a raft of futuristic transport policies that include extra spending on use of canals/waterways, railways and buses, as well as roads in general, and air freight.nick "petrolhead" fell
19-8-2010 Britain once had the courage and the innovative spirit to build the first underground railway. It was vastly expensive and ambitious but we are not that kind of country any more. The kind of public transport system that I described would be worth the money in the long run for so many reasons, social, economic and environmental but you are absolutely right when you say it would take political will and of course that does not exist as the kind of politicians we have now only think of short term goals and lining the pockets of their friends.Fed up pedestrian
19-8-2010 I know public transport is often dirty and inefficient - that is why I said that we need "public transport that is .... clean, safe, fast and frequent." All fossil fuels are finite resources. Exactly when they will run out is debatable but they will run out. In terms of industry and consumer demand China is only just beginning to wake up. People there are beginning to want cars instead of bikes or public transport and their demand for fuel will be enormous. While the West is in recession and suffering from crippling national and personal debt, China is rolling in money from providing all the consumer goods that we demanded despite not having the money to pay for them and they will be able to outbid us for oil on the world markets. The social and environmental price of the dominance of the motor car is rarely taken into account when "costing" the various means of transport. The motor car is polluting and also very noisy; it might seem to you to be quiet while you are bombing down the street inside one but if you live on a main road and are trying to sleep on a hot summer night with your window open you would realise how noisy they are!Fed up pedestrian
19-8-2010 Hi nick, regarding oil, I think we have reached the point where it is going to be a frantic struggle to keep up with growing demand, the UK has just hit a good strike in the Falklands (UK) and BP is very shortly to start drilling in the waters off Libya (some dodgy deal was struck), Iran and Iraq can supply 3 million barrels a day to the USA for the next hundred years, so all the world needs to do is satisfy China's ever increasing demands, that's where the problems of supply begin, and the residential parking problems in Oxford start to ease off, There are thirty million cars on the UK's roads at the moment, this figure will start to decrease in the coming years as petrol gets more and more expensive.Gainsborough lad.
19-8-2010 The best Public Transport system in the world is an enormous ask, it would take god knows how much financial investment, and political will to make happen. I do not believe that fossil fuel supplies are dwindling, considering how much is underneath both Iran and Iraq, and Afghanistan yet to be tapped. But the problem is that public transport is dirty and inefficient, and does not go where people need, and it is also not reliable at the current time, and is also expensive. Whereas the car is cheap and efficient, and flexible, its quiet and economical.nick "petrolhead" fell
18-8-2010 What this country needs is the best public transport system in the world - there are good economic and social arguments for public transit to be free at point of use. Public transport that is free, clean, safe, fast and frequent is needed if we are to combat road gridlock , pollution and dwindling fossil fuel deposits. We need to encourage people to walk more and leave their cars at home. I am sick of pedestrians and those who use public transport counting for nothing compared with car drivers and cyclists.Fed up pedestrian

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