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Beware the creeping scourge of resident parking areas
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From David Brown.
MY son parked in the Parade recently, some time after 7.30 in the evening, only to return to find an ‘advisory ticket’ on his car warning him that this was now a residents’ parking area and that he needed to display a valid parking disc up to 10 pm.
The proliferation of these residents’ parking areas seems to be yet another way of squeezing more out of the motorist.
Be warned, the signs are not consistent either, sometimes being white, sometimes green and other times looking like they have been put together in someone’s front room.
The other thing to note is ‘scope creep’. Since when did the Parade constitute being in St Thomas’ resident parking area? The ticket also seemed to have been issued by a non-legal body, ie not an official traffic warden.
Now I sympathise with people who live in towns, having lived in central London for four years with a car, so I know only too well the pain of parking, but the Constable must assign these areas sensibly.
I walk through the Parade almost every morning at 7:30 and have yet to see a single resident’s car, or any car, for that matter, parked in these spaces.
It seems we are flagging these spaces as residents’ areas as a means of being able to levy parking charges between 8 am and 10 pm, not so much through need, but more out of greed.
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