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"It will discourage people from using the park. That is particularly true of people that walk dogs. If you come once a month you might not mind £2 but if you walk the dog twice a day then you will."
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http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/topstories/Stump-up-for-park-parking.6804476.jp
Blimey, anyone who drives their dog to the Pentlands twice a day to walk it deserves all the charges that can be levelled at them!
Presumably Bob Paterson, secretary of the Friends of the Pentlands group considers this a perfectly normal thing to do.
If I lived in, say, Colinton, Juniper Green, Penicuik, Currie or Balerno, I'd think it was perfectly normal to drive a few miles to take my dog for a walk. I'd rather be there walking it than round the houses and at least it's not then shitting all over the pavement.
Biggest issue will likely be drivers parking on verges/narrrow roads/across gates.
I cannot see this working - how could you enforce it. Blue meanies at Thriepmuir/Harlaw? As druidh says the verges would be used. There is an issue that the Pentlands is a big place and lots of it are completely empty whereas the 4 carparks cited are often really busy, people go to these 4 sites when Harperig or routes to Carlops and West Linton deserted, Shucks even Carnwath does a good espresso for £1.20 - you can go down to Dunsyre, check out the Poetry Garden at Stoneyburn, take the path back over to A70 etc. There are options. Not like in Lake District where you have to queue with 100s of others before starting a walk.
Great idea! Why should parking be free?
Popular hill areas have had paid parking for some time. In the Lakes it is apparantly £5 or £8 to park in popular areas.
Many of the Cairngorm car parks charge. £3 at Loch Muick, probably the same at Linn of Dee. Invercauld too. You get to use a proper toilet for your money. As far as I can tell these pay and display car parks all work on trust. I don't think anything would happen if you didn't pay.
The council should consider parking bays on Braid Road at the entrance to the Hermitage if they want to raise a bit of cash.
Kim - would you support a charge on all walkers and cyclists in order to pay for the path repairs etc?
Ha ha ha... I guess someone clicked on chdot's link in post one and the web monkeys at EEN saw a hit from here and its title so looked through the thread and decided they could get more flesh of the bone by writing a ' it'll be unenforcable' peice.
Keep going guys, perhaps we'll give them more info to write a further peice. How about branching off into possible abuse of parking attendants as they'll be so far from civilisation.
The Council seems to be anticipating only a 40% compliance rate, so I suspect that enforcement will be limited. Most weekends, the verges at Flotterstone and Harlaw are pretty much fully parked-up anyway so people couldn't decamp from the car parks anyway - and there's no verge space at Bonaly.
I also see that they suggest parking charges might encourage people to walk or cycle to these locations instead of driving. I'm sure they'll be queueing up to cycle up the Kirk Brae to Harlaw.
Not exactly a gentle pootle up to Bonaly either: quite a steep climb from WOL path to the bridge over the bypass. I'm guessing most casual cyclists would balk at that: I didn't exactly relish it with son on tagalong either, but we enthusiasts (nutters in common parlance) are made of sterner stuff...
Scotsman | VAT blunder halts parking charge plans
Looks like this won't be happening after all.
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