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Candidates:
Your priorities please,
parking or people?
• I for one am looking forward to a knock at
my door from the prospective councillors in this local election.
Before anyone starts sending in the men in white coats, let
me explain; I want to quiz each party about their policies on
parking regulations.
My car was recently towed from my own road when, due to a panic
about my daughter, who was very ill and had to be rushed to
hospital, I was a few centimetres over a residents’ parking
bay.
I was sickened but not that surprised when my appeal against
my towing away was rejected by the council. Sickened because
they obviously put a few 100 quid ahead of the welfare of an
ill four-year-old. But not that surprised after reading in this
paper that parking restrictions are all about raising money
(Street works depend on fines from parking, Town Hall says,
April 6).
And boy does Camden need to raise a lot of money as it is obsessed
with traffic calming schemes.
Last year, my relatively safe road was speed humped, Mansfield
Road has been made narrower, in the last month the raised platforms
in Southampton Road were altered, while at the same time roads
off Haverstock Hill were having the original-style raised platforms
put in. I want to know what my prospective councillors are going
to do to stem the tide of this parking obsession – and
how will they stop other ill four-year-olds being exploited
in this way.
ALEX COHEN
Shirlock Road, NW3
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