Comments on: Top Conservative councils head in opposite directions to pioneer the new ‘right’ way to go with parking charges http://transportcrucible.com/2009/02/top-conservative-councils-head-directions-pioneer-right-parking-charges/ Minding the gap between vogue theory and progress in practice... Wed, 08 Dec 2010 01:40:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: elmo overhead projectors http://transportcrucible.com/2009/02/top-conservative-councils-head-directions-pioneer-right-parking-charges/#comment-8137 elmo overhead projectors Wed, 08 Dec 2010 01:40:15 +0000 http://transportcrucible.com/?p=1407#comment-8137 Hello, very nice web site. We actually came across this particular on Msn, and i am pleased I did. I will definately end up being coming back here more often. Desire I could add to the discussion as well as bring a bit more towards the table, but 'm just taking in just as much info as I will right now. Thank you Hello, very nice web site. We actually came across this particular on Msn, and i am pleased I did. I will definately end up being coming back here more often. Desire I could add to the discussion as well as bring a bit more towards the table, but ‘m just taking in just as much info as I will right now. Thank you

]]> By: Crossroads Rider » Blog Archive » RATS bikers protest group blockade Westminster City Hall with motorbikes … while the EU Commission opens an investigation into pay-by-mobile phone M/C parking fees & fines scheme. http://transportcrucible.com/2009/02/top-conservative-councils-head-directions-pioneer-right-parking-charges/#comment-5491 Crossroads Rider » Blog Archive » RATS bikers protest group blockade Westminster City Hall with motorbikes … while the EU Commission opens an investigation into pay-by-mobile phone M/C parking fees & fines scheme. Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:24:20 +0000 http://transportcrucible.com/?p=1407#comment-5491 [...] tempting prospect when you notice that the Westminster trial scheme has already extracted more than £2m from riders pockets More pics [...] [...] tempting prospect when you notice that the Westminster trial scheme has already extracted more than £2m from riders pockets More pics [...]

]]> By: Peter Roberts http://transportcrucible.com/2009/02/top-conservative-councils-head-directions-pioneer-right-parking-charges/#comment-232 Peter Roberts Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:35:09 +0000 http://transportcrucible.com/?p=1407#comment-232 Hello Mark, Whilst I agree with everything you say, it is a great shame these parking taxes are targeted on car drivers as well. When a town wants commerce and visitors, why on earth do they dissuade people with money grabbing parking charges which generally turn them away. I used to visit the town centre at least twice a week. After they introduced parking charges I now visit maybe once a month and only stay for the shortest time possible. It is probably saving me some money but if others are doing the same, and the lack of cars in the car park would suggest they are, then the shops in town are losing out in a big way. We have the politics of a madhouse in this country today. Hello Mark,

Whilst I agree with everything you say, it is a great shame these parking taxes are targeted on car drivers as well.

When a town wants commerce and visitors, why on earth do they dissuade people with money grabbing parking charges which generally turn them away.

I used to visit the town centre at least twice a week. After they introduced parking charges I now visit maybe once a month and only stay for the shortest time possible.

It is probably saving me some money but if others are doing the same, and the lack of cars in the car park would suggest they are, then the shops in town are losing out in a big way.

We have the politics of a madhouse in this country today.

]]> By: Mark McArthur-Christie http://transportcrucible.com/2009/02/top-conservative-councils-head-directions-pioneer-right-parking-charges/#comment-144 Mark McArthur-Christie Sun, 22 Feb 2009 19:33:13 +0000 http://transportcrucible.com/?p=1407#comment-144 I think it's fascinating how, quietly and almost without organised protest, parking has become a keystone in both local authority tax raising and what's euphemistically called "demand management". With the advent of the equally euphemistic "decriminalised" parking systems, another layer of revenue collection has emerged in the form of PCNS, all payable to local authorities. Parking fees are now - quite deliberately - set at high levels which make significant inroads into drivers' wallets. At the same time, particularly in cities like Oxford, London, Bristol and Birmingham, the presence of privatised parking enforcers is - quite literally - oppressive on the streets as they patrol in search of breaches of the law's letter. To see this sort of spiteful, revenue-centric approach targeted on motorcycles is a great shame. I think it’s fascinating how, quietly and almost without organised protest, parking has become a keystone in both local authority tax raising and what’s euphemistically called “demand management”. With the advent of the equally euphemistic “decriminalised” parking systems, another layer of revenue collection has emerged in the form of PCNS, all payable to local authorities. Parking fees are now – quite deliberately – set at high levels which make significant inroads into drivers’ wallets. At the same time, particularly in cities like Oxford, London, Bristol and Birmingham, the presence of privatised parking enforcers is – quite literally – oppressive on the streets as they patrol in search of breaches of the law’s letter. To see this sort of spiteful, revenue-centric approach targeted on motorcycles is a great shame.

]]> By: Martin Cassini http://transportcrucible.com/2009/02/top-conservative-councils-head-directions-pioneer-right-parking-charges/#comment-143 Martin Cassini Sun, 22 Feb 2009 19:01:55 +0000 http://transportcrucible.com/?p=1407#comment-143 Good briefing, Leon. No question in my mind that Westminster is on the wrong (coercive, restrictive) track, and that Kensington is on the right one (which I've long advocated). Good briefing, Leon. No question in my mind that Westminster is on the wrong (coercive, restrictive) track, and that Kensington is on the right one (which I’ve long advocated).

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