Forum topic: Shopkeepers request removal of all car parking outside their shops!
Shopkeepers request removal of all car parking outside their shops!
Basil Clarke
26 Sep 2015 22:58 1641
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It's a long article, but this is the nub of it, describing the views of shopkeepers on the street in question, as fed into the consultation process:
The biggest surprise for many in all this was the fact that the stakeholders wanted to remove all on-street parking places! Imagine that, shop keepers who don’t want parked cars in front of their shops, but rather people walking. Not very common, to say the least. But these entrepreneurs have the very successful pedestrianised shopping area right around the corner. They know perfectly well that it is the pedestrians who come to spend money, not the people parking their cars. There had been 68 parking places here: 55 public parking spaces, 4 spaces for the handicapped, 2 spaces for electric cars, 1 space for a shared car and 6 taxi stands.
All the public on-street parking places were indeed removed. The city had first planned to keep 20 parking places, but after the demands of the stakeholders only 7 ‘special interest places’ were implemented in the final design. In exactly the same numbers as before: 4 spaces for the handicapped, 2 spaces for electric cars and 1 space for a shared car.
The street now looks like this
instead of this
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