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Monday, September 10, 2012
Councils’ controlled parking issues
Have you been finding it harder to locate a parking space you don’t have to pay for these past few months?
We wouldn’t be surprised to hear that you had, because not only are there more cars being bought every day in the UK, but one in five councils have reduced the number of free street parking spaces available to motorists.
Furthermore, many have increased the number of parking attendants, so more people are being caught out and having to pay fines for overstaying or parking illegally.
Now, we don’t have a problem with people receiving fines for doing something they shouldn’t be doing, but what we’re not happy with is that drivers have fewer and fewer suitable parking bays available to them.
What are road users meant to do? Where can they park if there’s nowhere appropriate?
Since councils began taking over parking enforcement from the police in 2008, they seem to have gradually been making it more difficult for drivers to park.
Both the chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation and the director of the RAC Foundation believe that councils need to reassess how they are dealing with controlled parking so that it is a benefit to residents instead of a nuisance.
We agree with them and hope to see some change soon.
Photo © Philip Taylor PT via Flickr, under Creative Commons Licence
We wouldn’t be surprised to hear that you had, because not only are there more cars being bought every day in the UK, but one in five councils have reduced the number of free street parking spaces available to motorists.Furthermore, many have increased the number of parking attendants, so more people are being caught out and having to pay fines for overstaying or parking illegally.
Now, we don’t have a problem with people receiving fines for doing something they shouldn’t be doing, but what we’re not happy with is that drivers have fewer and fewer suitable parking bays available to them.
What are road users meant to do? Where can they park if there’s nowhere appropriate?
Since councils began taking over parking enforcement from the police in 2008, they seem to have gradually been making it more difficult for drivers to park.
Both the chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation and the director of the RAC Foundation believe that councils need to reassess how they are dealing with controlled parking so that it is a benefit to residents instead of a nuisance.
We agree with them and hope to see some change soon.
Photo © Philip Taylor PT via Flickr, under Creative Commons Licence
Labels: attendants, bays, car, councils, driver, enforcement, fines, free, illegal, Metropolitan Police Federation, motorist, parking, police, RAC Foundation, space, street parking
Friday, August 24, 2012
Speeding motorists becoming rarer
You know what really grinds my gears? – by which I mean, what annoys me, not what ruins the inner workings of my car. It’s speeding motorists who make me mad!
Sometimes you can’t tell if people are speeding – one or two miles above the limit are hard to spot – but when I see road users obviously flouting the rules I have to pull over somewhere safe and calm myself down.
I can’t understand why some drivers do it – it’s so dangerous and completely unnecessary!
Occasionally I see some people visibly speeding just to show off to strangers walking along the pavement. What’s the point?
Thankfully though, figures from the RAC Foundation and the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety show that motorists are not speeding as much as they used to.
For example, whereas 69% of drivers exceeded 30mph limits in 1998, in 2010 only 46% did. Furthermore, the number of road users breaking the 70mph limit on motorways used to be 57% in 2003, but fell to 49% in 2010.
I’m pleased, and I hope those figures continue to decrease.
Photo © ell brown via Flickr, under Creative Commons Licence
Labels: car, dangerous, drivers, gear, limit, motorists, Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety, RAC Foundation, road, speeding