Bag's Rants

They work for us update.

Following on from my previous post on our local council and their policy of destroying our town centre. Read the original thread here.

Now a predictable cause and effect of the introduction parking charges in the town centre means that those places, close to the town centre, but outside the parking zone get chock a block with cars parking, the b4$^4&ds, for free. So much so that citizens in those areas have campaigned for resident parking permits.

Boy, has that backfired. Not only has our council increased the parking zone by about 200 yards to include many such areas but residents can now only have a maximum of two cars from each home on a residents pass. Visitors to those homes can get special rates for parking. Whoopie! At 25 tokens for £20. Now I think we can guess what will happen next. Everything will shift along 200 yards. One case mentioned was one guy who parks on the corner right outside his door can't get a permit because his address is the main town road which is all double yellows. Because he does not live on the street he parks he can't get a permit. He will need to park his car several hundred yards away after 18:00 and move it before 08:00 every day if he does not want to pay parking fees.

In addition because the town centre parking is not brining in the revenue they expected they are also going to be charging on our out of town areas. Yippee! Death to our local shops. And most of these are alongside big supermarkets with free parking. It's the council that will drive the little shops out of business. Or, more likely, not even make money because people will park just outside the parking zone or on the supermarkets car parks and the cycle starts again.

By the time they have finished increasing the zones you will have to pay our council for parking in Manchester and Liverpool airport. Our town centre will have a McDonalds, a KFC, our many pizza places and the council offices. Remember, that our council staff get free parking anyway unlike the rest of the town centre employees.

In addition Morrison's seems to have gone quiet. I only hope it is to plan a big legal surprise for our useless council officers.

posted by Bag @ 1:23 pm