With reference to your headline article (January 20) Parking rakes in £7.5 for councils and OurView (A Cut in city’s park-and-ride costs will bring economic boost), it is amazing and coincidental on the day this hit the news-stands, local residents in North Oxford received a further consultation letter from the county council – responsible for highways – asking residents to adopt Controlled Parking Zones.
This is when residents are charged £50 for the “privilege” of parking outside their own doorsteps.
What a cheek.
The city and the county councils have caused the problems for high council tax payers of this area. They should not be charging for the problems their policies have created.
William Sabel, left, Mike Gotch and city councillor Jean Fooks pictured in September 2012 protesting about the parking charges at Cutteslowe Park
Council parking charges in Cutteslowe Park deter users parking in the park. They cause residents a problem by parking in their roads instead. Perhaps if they were free to start with it might help. After all, there are no charges in other city parks.
Park-and-ride cark parks were intended to be exactly this. Not pay a lot and park somewhere else because it is too expensive.
Charging local residents for the problems the city and county councils have created is not acceptable. They should listen and take more responsibility for the problems they have caused. But providing they can charge they don’t care about local people. It is time they did.
DAVID STONE, MSc, M.CAM, FIDM
Templar Road
Cutteslowe
Oxford
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