Why is parking allowed?

11:21am Monday 15th October 2012 in Letters By Reader's letter

Mrs Whitlea (Letters, October 11) better watch out. If she talks as much sense as this, the politically correct will be hounding her out of town.

I just have one comment to add to her thoughts. Why do the council and the police allow motorists to park on both sides of Bishopthorpe Road between Balmoral Terrace and Campleshon Road.

They have been doing it so long if you look under the cars it appears the road has not been resufaced for years.

They are all parked with two wheels on the kerb which is I believe illegal and must be a pedestrian nightmare.

Barry Rennison, Copmanthorpe, York

Comments(7)

ColdAsChristmas says...
1:13pm Mon 15 Oct 12

Easy answer to this one: Create adequate, safe and free parking spaces.

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Sillybillies says...
2:45pm Mon 15 Oct 12

Put double yellow lines down both sides of the road and enforce them. If you have a car, buy a house with off-road parking.

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sheps lad says...
3:28pm Mon 15 Oct 12

Sillybillies wrote:
Put double yellow lines down both sides of the road and enforce them. If you have a car, buy a house with off-road parking.
Bit simplistic, if everyone who lived in a terrace house decided to sell where would they find houses in York with parking space?

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UsernameNotAvailable says...
3:28pm Mon 15 Oct 12

Most homes do not have off-road parking these days (in fact who can afford to buy a home at all these days - and renters cannot be that fussy with the tight rental market at the moment). I agree something needs to be done, but there is no simple solution.

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yorkshirelad says...
9:09pm Mon 15 Oct 12

It's a little bit tricky as car ownership has increased but I really don't think that pavement parking is the solution. It makes walking unecessarily annoying as people have to weave past obstructions, the pavements are not engineered for cars and end up getting damaged and it just creates the general impression that there are no limits for cars.

The law should be changed to make pavement parking equivalent to double yellow line parking...whether or not there are lines present. But I think the act of driving onto the pavement is currently an offence , so unless they get there by crane...

Pavements are for people, surely?

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ColdAsChristmas says...
1:18am Tue 16 Oct 12

yorkshirelad, do all these cars just disappear over night? I'm OK with leaving the road and pavements clear but first a home is required for the vehicles.
This is a big problem with local and national government in that they don't think things through. A classic case is green belt construction / development and no consideration as to where the extra water will be soaked up.

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Magicman! says...
3:02am Tue 16 Oct 12

And what about all these new developments that go ahead? many get the 'eco' label slapped on them, which in the real world means that 20 houses have about 8 car parking spaces between them.

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