Sir – Along with the notification to renew residents’ parking permits in West Oxford we receive a form asking for ways to improve the scheme, which I have completed and, they will ignore, as this is a revenue stream! The most obvious improvement would be to do away with the £40 annual charge and reduce the traffic warden activity to the level paid for by the fines they collect.
In most local roads there are fewer parking places than resident cars, hence the numbers of local cars on double yellow lines all night.
There is, therefore, a Catch 22 here! With so many residents unable to park their cars in parking bays (as all the others are filled by other local residentss cars) there are effectively no spaces for non-residents to park, and therefore no problem with non-residents parking in our bays!
So we pay an annual fee to make sure there are wardens patrolling to issue parking fines to local residents! And thus pay the annual fee and the parking fines and increase the county council’s revenue stream.
Robert Mitchell, Oxford
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