Friday 21 November 2014

The People Have Spoken..!

…those ungrateful bastards.
Objections to controversial residents' parking zones outweighed public support by ten to one, according to official figures.
The average figures come from results of formal consultations from five of nine RPZ areas which have either been rolled out or are due to be rolled out in Bristol.
Whoops! But the council comes out fighting:
But the total number of objections represent only five per cent of the combined population of the areas. The council added that the figures are misleading as formal consultations only invite objections and not comments of support.
Riiiiiiight. So…just tell us how many of those you get. Simples!

8 comments:

ivan said...

First question, who are the people objecting to residents parking, is it the residents that will have a parking space outside their home or or people that want casual parking just where ever they like?

If it is the residents then more fool them. If it is the casual parkers then the council needs to provide more cost effective parking very near to where those people want to park.

Our local city has resident parking areas (it costs about 10 euro a year to cover admin costs)and the city council has parking for all others at reasonable rates in other places and runs a free bus service from the parking stations to the city centre and everyone is happy.

Ted Treen said...

In other words...

"We'll continue to manipulate all statistics of opposition to our plans until such time as we can manipulate all statistics to show overwhelming support for our plans, at which point we declare the 'consultation' both valid & finished".

Furor Teutonicus said...

XX But the total number of objections represent only five per cent of the combined population of the areas. XX

Pitty they do not use the same logic at election time.

Lets see them shit themselves THEN.

Weekend Yachtsman said...

"only five per cent of the combined population of the areas."

And what percentage of the combined population of the areas actually voted for this council?

andy5759 said...

Residents in my area were consulted some years ago. I live in a very old, narrow lane near St Albans town centre. Narrow, terraced houses, parking one side of the road. Get the picture? Well, the damn fool residents were in favour, they now pay nearly £200 a year for two cars. Sometimes they have to park up to three streets away.

RAB said...

I live in Bristol and that damn Red Legged bastard Mayor Ferguson wants to do Residents Parking in my road too.

I live in St Andrews, the roads were not made for modern traffic and road parking, and the houses in my road are very large. So large that most of them have been converted into flats and bedsits. Only about 30% of us are permanent householders.

Even students and flatdwellers have cars these days, so there are about 50% more cars than the road can accommodate. If you don't get home before 5pm, forget about parking outside your house, you have to park two blocks away. Yet the red legged asshole wants to charge me £75 a year to still not be able to park in my own road!

JuliaM said...

"First question, who are the people objecting to residents parking, is it the residents that will have a parking space outside their home or or people that want casual parking just where ever they like?"

I suspect the latter, but there's always a third option: those people that think we should walk, cycle or use public transport for everything.

"Pitty they do not use the same logic at election time.

Lets see them shit themselves THEN."


Amen!

"...the houses in my road are very large. So large that most of them have been converted into flats and bedsits. "

Which increases the need for parking spaces! Great job, planners!

perdu en france said...

Few years a go the London borough, where I lived, conducted a "consultation" on introducing a residents' parking scheme. The result was just under 70% of the residents opposed & virtually 100% of local businesses likewise.
The pay & display machines were installed within a couple of months & the scheme came into operation shortly after.
We had, apparently, given the wrong sort of answer.