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Increases in car parking cost likely?

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  1. Kim
    Member

    The Edinburgh Reporter has a news piece on potential increases in car parking charges in Edinburgh. I was particularly struck by this comment:

    "We all knew ever since the days of transport guru, David Beggs, that the days of the car in the city centre were numbered. It seems that this is yet another nail in the coffin. However until the public transport system is both perfect and runs for 24 hours there are some people who have no alternative but to use a car to get to work for example."

    Peddling the old myth that you can't get about the city unless you have a car. No alternative? They need to get on their bikes...

    Posted 13 years ago #

  2. kaputnik
    Moderator

    What it should say is;

    there are some people who have no cannot convcieve of any alternative but to use a car to get to work for example

    Posted 13 years ago #

  3. Morningsider
    Member

    Roads space is a finite resource, city centre parking even more so. How do drivers suggest it is rationed other than through charging (I consider congestion to be a charge - time, money, health impacts of idling cars etc). How about an annual lottery for city centre parking spaces? Or only red cars every Monday, blue on Tuesday and so on. How about no parking charges and/or restrictions at all?

    Oh, but these are unfair and may impede my timely procession to work!

    Sensible suggestions please motorists - not just whinges.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  4. Wilmington's Cow
    Member

    I tihnk it would be an interesting experiment for one month to say there are no parking restrictions anywhere. Let the chaos develop for all to see. Have everyone but the most blinkered motor-fiend realise that it's a crazy idea.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  5. Smudge
    Member

    Aren't there some Continental cities (Italy?) where only cars whose number plates start with an even number are allowed in one day then odd numbers the next? I remember reading something about such a scheme to deal with gridlock a few years ago... so colour coding is not *quite* as silly as it sounds! :-o

    Posted 13 years ago #

  6. kaputnik
    Moderator

    @Smudge - sounds like the "Beijing olympics" scheme

    Blue bikes only on the innocent on Tuesdays. No MTBs on a Thursday, fixies only allowed heading eastbound, recumbents must be accompanied by a man walking in front waving a red flag.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  7. Smudge
    Member

    Now now Kaputnik, you can't discriminate towards the invisible bikes like that.
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    it should be a person with a red flag ;-))
    (or two flags for trikes on account of the surplus wheels!

    Posted 13 years ago #

  8. chdot
    Admin

    "Parking ticket slump leaves city facing £1.2m revenue shortfall"

    "Parking attendants handed out fewer tickets throughout the year but also saw a huge drop in the number of fines issued over November and December due to the wintry weather."

    http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/topstories/Parking-ticket-slump-leaves-city.6681482.jp

    Well it's been said before on here - if people parked 'properly' there'd be no fine income. Most curious business model relying on 'criminality'!

    Posted 13 years ago #

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