| Topic: | Re:More CPZs Around Ealing in 2009 2010 | |
| Posted by: | Arthur Breens | |
| Date/Time: | 06/04/09 17:28:00 |
| Spot on! CPZs are a very short term solution to a problem. They are corrupt a)intellectually corrupt...in that no research is ever done to discover who is parking in a street, why they are parking there and what the effects might be if they are excluded by a CPZ. Some visiting motorists simply park in the roads just outside a zone. They don't go away. This is called displacement. It places sudden and unbearable pressure on those roads that are unfortunate enough to find themselves just outside a zone. This in turn begets an extension. No one in the CPZ planning department goes on to become an epidemiologist and we have to be thankful for that. Just like a bush fire the advancing CPZ front leaves behind it empty roads where people used to park... a wasted economic resource. b)morally corrupt...in that the authority indicates that the extension or the introduction of a CPZ solves the problem. This is clearly not the case. Some of the most subtle problems are caused by CPZs...like employment..are raised above. Try going to Ealing Police station to report a crime using your car. The car park used to be for us the punters now it is for officers and staff only. They can't park nearby because of CPZs. This isn't a criticism of the police it just shows that a community is made up of lots of facets and having a home and a car are only two there are many more. The Bible tells us that man cannot live by bread alone but to loose a baker in Northfield Ave would be a disaster and so would losing a butcher or a nursery or finding your doctor in one zone and you in another. c)Fiscally corrupt..in that 10 years ago Ealing probably made no money out of parking. Now with a little help from its CPZ friends it makes millions. So we can't win CPZs are "planning by the back door" and no one cares about this rush for CPZ cash or the damage it does to the non residential infrastructure. This may be the reason there is no proper policy (Eric Leach) see above. Finally I have to say that councillors don't want to discuss policy. All the attempts I have made in this area have been rejected but tis difficult to listen when the till bell rings so loudly. |