Regular readers may recall our coverage of a recent channel4 documentary, one that showed how the council was enforcing the parking restrictions in the showcase bus route at peak hours -and worse than that, by doing it with CCTV, ensuring that people really really didn't stop there, rather than "stop for 10 minutes -no harm done" stopping.
Well, now it's got national coverage, it's going to blow up
The "more parking" campaigners did manage to hold off the rollout of resident parking zones nearby, so ensuring that the parking areas will be available for staff and other commuters -leaving a remaining problem: where do shoppers go?
The answer is obvious: the bus and bike lanes.
Hence a petition: Fairer parking on Gloucester Road.
This is The Aberystwyth Faction's petition
We call upon Bristol City Council to remove peak parking restrictions from all parking bays that do not cause obstruction to traffic lanes of Gloucester Road,
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Furthermore we call upon Bristol City Council to implement "tidal" parking on Gloucester Road, and to permit the following:
•Parking on the inbound carriageway during the evening peak.
•Parking on the outbound carriageway during the morning peak.
This is pretty significant as if they get their way, it means that the bike lanes will be dead, and the bus lanes will only work for people heading towards town in the morning, away in the evening.
Which means that anyone trying to cycle in the opposite direction, say to school, or even to work on the North Fringe -and get there alive, are stuffed.
The right to park outside a shop is more important than the rights of others to live
In the other corner, just warming up, are the people who mistakenly believe that their right to live is more important than allowing people to get a bag of chips without having to park round the corner and walk 100 paces.
Their petition: Petition: Uninterrupted Cycle Lane on both sides along entire Gloucester Road
This is going to go head to head -two pressure groups, seeing who can be the loudest. Those demanding that Gloucester Road becomes like Aberystwyth: free range parking, or those who don't want the cycling clock pushed backwards -but instead want the bike lane expanded and enforced.
It's going to get exciting!
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Don't "The Aberystywth Faction" understand what happened in Aber???
No traffic enforcement - cars double parked on footpaths, blocking single-lane roads "while I just popped in for some essential shopping", lorries parked across entrances to roads, absolute f-ing chaos!
Or, maybe thats what they want... Maybe, they are actually *opposed* to motoring libertarianism and just playing a very long game - - create absolute chaos, and then people will come to City Hall begging for stronger traffic enforcement ;-)
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