Bristol parking scheme

PaulStat

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The go ahead has been given for a trial period of one year in the Kingsdown and Clifton area of Bristol.

Can't say I'm either for or against it as I have my own private parking space off of the street.

Basically in order to park on the streets you have to pay money for the year, and then extra money for second vehicles and visitor passes.

It's supposed to deter commuters from driving into central Bristol instead of using public transport. I think it will penalise people who have no choice but to park outside their homes, which kind of sucks.

What are peoples opinions? Anyone live in an area that already has such a scheme? Does it work?

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Stupid, crap scheme.

Yay for paying money to park my car.

Oh, and sort out the recycling and rubbish collection for gods sake.
 
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I think if they were interested in benefiting residents, they would require evidence that you lived in the area to get a permit, charge a nominal fee to cover the parking disc (£5 or something), and call that the end of it.

Getting it free for having a lower fume-emitting car is a bit of a joke. Tax I can understand, but you were paying nothing to park there before, and you still live there, so what difference does pollution make?

£200 a year is farcical.
 
Nitefly said:
Stupid, crap scheme.

Yay for paying money to park my car.

Oh, and sort out the recycling and rubbish collection for gods sake.
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It depends how it works. It worked well when i was in Plymouth. However that was like £35 a year and proof of residency. You could also buy stamp books if you had visitors and generally worked very well. However this doesn't seem to be that well thought out.

However you still have 6+ bedroom houses with multiple cars and no driveways so it's not going to solve the problem in the evening.
 
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My boyfriend doesn't have his own car but lives in a house in Kingsdown where two of the others do own a car, maybe all three. The first permit is to cost £40, the second £70 and the third £200!

It also means the single day/night visitors permits are to be shared out among 4 people. All of which have friends and family who come over, in their cars, to stay. They can only buy UP TO 50 of these for the household, at £1 each. PER YEAR. So that's only 12.5 days of car-travelling visitors, per person, per year.

Sucks much when I'm the girlfriend of the chap without the car, so my being more mobile means I'm currently more often there than we are at mine.

Nnngh. Not good in their circumstances!!

Do we know if the trial scheme will have all the same costs as the proposed full scheme?
 
Nitefly said:
Hold on, the link says 2007?
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Here's some of the blurb I got through email

On November 27th Bristol City Council’s ruling Labour Cabinet resolved to go ahead with two large Resident’s Parking ‘pilot zones’, in Clifton and Kingsdown.



However, the decision is not final and can be reversed. The decision has been ’called-in’ (part of the Council’s democratic process) by Conservative councillors, which puts it on hold pending further scrutiny.



The next step is a cross-party ‘call-in’ meeting, at 5.30pm on Monday 5th January at the Council House, College Green, which has the power to refer the decision to the full Council. Given the make-up of the full Council, this means that the opposition parties can overturn the decision, and offers us an opportunity to influence the process.
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But apparently they didn't overturn the decision so it is going ahead.

Email was forwarded to me from someone who gets emails from www.keepparkingfree.org
 
Not any more, I live in Totterdown now.
(edit, /me amends location, there's enough Brizzolians here to warrant it, it seems...)


Bit more info on thisisbristol, they seem to have yet another idea of the costs of permits to a household (£30, £110 and £310) - but at least it looks like we get another year of non-permitness first, and another attempt to cost-out the scheme:
As a result of last night's meeting, officers will now go ahead and draft a fully-costed and detailed version of the pilots, which will be presented to the public this year.

The council has yet to decide how it will gauge the opinion of people living in the proposed zones.

But if the schemes are backed by a majority, they will go back to cabinet for the final say-so with an aim to begin by the end of the year or early 2010.
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AcidHell2 said:
However you still have 6+ bedroom houses with multiple cars and no driveways so it's not going to solve the problem in the evening.
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This.

Kingsdown's pretty bad due to all the bizarre little houses in High Kingsdown with no roads in between. Going to be lots of arguments in the houses with more than one car, as with my bloke's house, "you don't need a car here, you never use it!" etc.

All these cars will just push over and cause trouble on the neighbouring streets. Doesn't take a quick mind to realise that.
 
PaulStat said:
Then the council really does have an ulterior motive, or are they just thick?
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I daresay they wouldn't mind a little extra cash, as per usual.

But there is obviously a problem - and this will possibly fix it for the majority of people complaining about parking at the moment - but I guess we need a trial in order to find out what /does/ happen.

I'm intrigued by the hint from the BBC article about £30 for 3 years. This sounds very different from anything else I've seen until now... And much more reasonable. Bet there's a catch.
 
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