30 September 2011
Last day in September already ... my, how time flies by. And how bad my memory is getting as time goes by! I've had a spotting scope and tripod on eBay which was due to finish yesterday but I forgot all about. This morning I checked my MSN mail account and found a couple of emails from the guy who bought it. That' when I remembered it! Oh dear ... senior moments again.
A few days ago I wrote about car parking near to schools in Dorktown. Well, a similar situation has arisen in various roads around the George Eliot Hospital and around the 6th form college in the town centre. Folks are parking in the streets around them and not in the car parks provided. Parking charges at GEH are pretty steep so I can see why they park outside the grounds and walk the rest of it. The problem comes when residents are not able to park outside their homes. The county council is now looking at it and it seems they are going to bring in residents parking permits. That's fine, but we live in a street just off the town centre and we have the same problems here but with shoppers not willing to pay the charges in town car centre parks. It's not that easy though. There are not enough parking places for those wanting to shop so where else can they park if not in
the street around the area?
Some years ago they were looking to set up residents parking only areas in Norman Avenue, Bracebridge Street and Marlbourgh Road. The idea then was that residents would pay for the permits. OK, fine ... but the permits didn't guarantee your parking space. Letters were sent out and a such a cry of protest went up they let idea drop. Hopefully they will have learned from the last time. But again, it's not quite that easy is it?
There's two of us here and we both have a Motability lease hire car. There's in one space in front of our house so the other one has to be parked elsewhere. Next door to us there's another two cars. Not far up the road there's one family with four cars! And so it goes up and down the street. Most of us are tolerant because we know what the problems are but the single biggest complaint in the street is directed firmly at MI Taxis who's drivers park anywhere they like and expect not to be challenged over it. On day I drove up the street and there was 15 of their cars parked in the street.
At the bottom of Bracebridge Street there's a pharmacist on one corner, a chippy on the other corner and within 50 metres of the junction with Queens Road there's three takeaways - a balti, a pizza place and a Chinese. The pavement on the corner by the pharmacist is regularly blocked by inconsiderate parkers. Using a scooter can then become very difficult and sometimes dangerous too even though the road is now a one way street.
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