Borough Street Parking Matters - UPDATE 12 Aug '08

Re: Borough Street Parking Matters - UPDATE 12 Aug '08

feeds@yuku.com (thamesweb) — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:47:59 GMT

I have never understood this single and double yellow line business. It is either safe to park at a given part of the street, or it is not. Why can parked cars - always a hazard to pedestrians regardless of the day or night - be left at some times of the day, but not at others? Or perhaps the safety angle is not the prime criteria? Could there be any other reason to restrict parking?

But it is all academic. In my part of town, cars parked on double yellow lines get away with it for...

Re: Borough Street Parking Matters - UPDATE 12 Aug '08

feeds@yuku.com (thamesweb) — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:42:17 GMT

...since national government has now made this council enforce parking...

Where might this be then? Not seen an enforcement officer in Springfield Road, College Crescent, York Road or York Avenue EVER!!

So residents park on double yellow lines right up to the apex of junctions (a real safety hazard) especially as often it is the big black 4x4s that no-one can see past. There are spaces further down the road, but that is too far to walk I...

Re: Borough Street Parking Matters - UPDATE 12 Aug '08

feeds@yuku.com (thamesweb) — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:35:36 GMT

RBWM 12 Aug 2008

More double yellow lines could soon be disappearing in Windsor as the Royal Borough
continues to create additional parking spaces for local residents.

Consultation is now underway with people living in Keppel Street/Helena Road and Oxford Road to get their views on a proposal to introduce one-way traffic in their streets. This would mean that double yellow lines on one side could be replaced with a single yellow line and open up extra...

Re: Borough Street Parking Matters - UPDATE 12 Aug '08

feeds@yuku.com (gezkc) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:29:47 GMT

The problem with Park and Ride schemes is where do you build the car park.
In any case, you could argue there's already a perfectly good park and ride system in place. It's called the train!

Re: Borough Street Parking Matters - UPDATE 12 Aug '08

feeds@yuku.com (the jiffle king) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:13:08 GMT

great idea!!!!! Lets knock down 300 houses and build them on the other parks in Windsor....

We need to only allow developments which give 2 parking spaces per property
We need to create a park and ride scheme

Re: Borough Street Parking Matters - UPDATE 12 Aug '08

feeds@yuku.com (Pat Larkin) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:59:46 GMT

qezkc, you've just brought a smile to my face - what a fantastic idea - !

Re: Borough Street Parking Matters - UPDATE 12 Aug '08

feeds@yuku.com (gezkc) — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:38:39 GMT

In response to Tranceboy's suggestion of underground parking in Windsor, I have to say I that agree it would be an ideal solution to Windsor's parking problems, albeit an expensive one. Not only would it provide additional parking, it would also keep cars off the streets and out of sight which, to a historic town like Windsor, would be of real benefit.

But where to build such a carpark? There's only one choice in my opinion: demolish Ward Royal, replace it with a park...

Re: Borough Street Parking Matters - UPDATE 12 Aug '08

feeds@yuku.com (thamesweb) — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:26:43 GMT

Wed, 25 Jun 2008

A way forward for Windsor parking that is a 'realistic menu of options' has been put forward by the Royal Borough, fulfilling a promise to local residents to identify noticeable, affordable solutions for the town's parking problems.

The draft Windsor parking strategy highlights the council's determination to put residents' needs first, with achievable ways of providing 500 extra parking spaces in the next three years and a further 500 -...

Re: Borough Street Parking Matters - UPDATE 12 Aug '08

feeds@yuku.com (thamesweb) — Sat, 17 May 2008 01:59:04 GMT

In the first post of this thread, Cllr Simon Werner, lead member for public protection, is reported as saying that "he was excited by the prospect of the council having the power to crack down on people who parked on yellow lines, flouted parking restrictions and caused grief for everyone."

Correction. That should read "crack down on some people" for there has been a distinct lack of activity a little way out of town where residents...

Re: Borough Street Parking Matters - UPDATE 12 Aug '08

feeds@yuku.com (thamesweb) — Thu, 08 May 2008 01:14:27 GMT

08/05/2008

Three streets in Windsor will soon offer daytime pay and display parking once again, following local feedback on the Royal Borough's evolving parking strategy in the town centre.

From Monday June 2 resident permit holders, those with visitor vouchers and pay and display parkers will all be able to use:

the south section of St Leonards Road
part of Alma Road and
the west section of Clarence Road.

These areas of the...

Re: Borough Street Parking Matters - UPDATE 12 Aug '08

feeds@yuku.com (thamesweb) — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:39:23 GMT

Another problem is the government's attitude towards parking. The following incredible statement was discovered in the planning papers for the Frogmore Hotel in Alma Road. (Ref: 03/83422)

"Government policy is to reduce reliance on the private car and local authorities are advised not to request more parking than developers themselves wish to provide."

What?? Let the developers decide how much parking to provide? Guess what the...

Re: Borough Street Parking Matters - UPDATE 12 Aug '08

feeds@yuku.com (thamesweb) — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:11:27 GMT

The biggest problem with your plan is that to build an underground car park, of whatever size, you first need to clear everything at ground level before you can start digging the hole for your car park. That might be resisted, to say the least. You cannot 'mine' space for a car park.

Problem no. 2 is that the 'wrong sort of people' are parking in the town centre. Staff from local shops and offices block up the available spaces to a large extent all day. Yet they are...

Re: Borough Street Parking Matters - UPDATE 12 Aug '08

feeds@yuku.com (tranceboy81) — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:37:04 GMT

Having spent a great deal of time travelling with work, it occurs to me that something our European cousins seem to do very well is underground parking. Shock! Horror! I hear you cry! But hear me out. Take, for example, the beautiful and historic French city of Avignon. It is possible to draw a number of comparisons between Avignon and our beloved Windsor. Both have a wonderful medieval centre. Both are close to large rivers and suffer flooding. We have our wonderful castle and they have the...

Re: Borough Street Parking Matters - UPDATE 12 Aug '08

feeds@yuku.com (thamesweb) — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:48:18 GMT

...converting double yellow lines to singles...

Why were they doubles in the first place? Surely it was a matter of road safety, certainly that is the case adjacent to junctions. Or was it merely a plan to force greater use of paid car parking in those days before metered parking?

My own observations of the parking enforcement measures introduced in January are that away from the town centre nothing has changed. Cars continue to park for...

Re: Borough Street Parking Matters - UPDATE 12 Aug '08

feeds@yuku.com (thamesweb) — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:05:39 GMT

Borough Press Release

10/04/2008

The Royal Borough is motoring ahead with plans to further increase parking space in Windsor town centre - and is calling on businesses and organisations with available evening and weekend parking bays to become part of the solution.

Cllr Colin Rayner, lead member for highways, transport and environment, said: "We would like businesses near the town centre and with employee parking bays to call us to discuss making these...

Re: Borough Street Parking Matters - UPDATE 12 Aug '08

feeds@yuku.com (thamesweb) — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 15:38:57 GMT

So Windsor gets a mention on national TV about scrapping double yellow lines, does it? I only caught a snippet and have been away from news sources since so need to ask for others to clarify what was said, but there is something rather odd about the borough taking over from the police when it comes to issuing tickets to wayward parkers, only for the yellow lines to be scrapped weeks later... Why???

Re: Borough Street Parking Matters - UPDATE 12 Aug '08

feeds@yuku.com (thamesweb) — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 16:42:05 GMT

Quote:
This review will flag up areas where we can amend yellow lines to provide additional on-street parking

Given that just a month or two ago much work was done refreshing the yellow lines in Windsor in readiness for DPE Day, are we to pay again for changes to these lines... or had the changes already been decided prior to this repainting of the lines????

Re: Borough Street Parking Matters - UPDATE 12 Aug '08

feeds@yuku.com (thamesweb) — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 03:42:31 GMT

Increasing the amount of legal on-road parking available to residents living in town centres is set to be the focus of a review by the Royal Borough proposed for early next year.

Aimed to tie in with the introduction of decriminalised parking enforcement (DPE) which will bring parking enforcement under the control of the council instead of the police when it comes into effect on January 14 the review will consider as many...

Re: Borough Street Parking Matters - UPDATE 12 Aug '08

feeds@yuku.com (thamesweb) — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:02:51 GMT

A bit tricky getting your sense here without the punctuation!

Re: Borough Street Parking Matters - UPDATE 12 Aug '08

feeds@yuku.com (caz) — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:35:47 GMT

it seems that we are at last thinking along the same lines the biggest problems with town centre parking is a number of issues that the local authority needs to address, these being providing secure parking for residents who are unable to park quite near to their home eg in car parks if needs if needs be, unfortunatly this was shot down in flames a number of years ago when it was suggested by a number of councilors at a meeting (probably by residents who no longer live in the town),by not...

Borough Street Parking Matters - UPDATE 12 Aug '08

feeds@yuku.com (thamesweb) — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 04:29:11 GMT

17/01/2007 Borough Press Release

The Royal Borough is setting out its timetable for taking over parking enforcement throughout the area and it looks as if the first phase could be up and running this time next year.

A report to next week's cabinet (Thursday January 25) underlines the lengthy procedures involved but says that once the borough becomes a Special Parking Area with council responsibility for all parking enforcement, there will be widespread benefits for the...