What this would cause is more cars parked on roads and in residential areas, so we would lose car parking revenue and residents would struggle to park where they live. My road is already a nightmare to park on due to the amount of vehicles parked on it.
The problem with residents parking is when only applied to one area the cars just park in the neighbouring areas causing their to be less space there. If applied to the whole city where do people visiting park?
They pay to park ideally off street. Roads were built to travel on not park upon.
What would happen if you could only own a car if you had an off street parking space? Japanese cities tend not to allow on street parking as houses were built of wood and fire service access was vital. Towing trucks patrol at night and any cars parked are rapidly removed - end up with tiny car parks with sensors which can detect whether space is free or not and of course is charged for. Hong Kong has a vibrant car parking space estate agencies with people buying and selling just as they do a house - that’s the mentality we need to adopt not this idea we can dump our one tonne of metal in any old public space,
Park & Ride sites or Pay and Display car parks.
Deltic I agree woth what you’re saying to be honest!
If a system whereby cars had to be parked off road, either car parks would be created (whether by the local authority, or by someone seeing a niche) or the residents would be expected to have sufficient parking on their property for any visitors.
It's not unsolvable with permits for on-street parking - you have (say) ten spaces for eight houses, each house gets a residents' permit and the other two spaces are available for visitors, potentially on a pay-and-display basis or otherwise. My area - which is residents' parking only about once a month - makes permits for visitors available to residents at an additional cost.
What about people who regularly drive a disabled person - the criterion for a blue badge? Where do you draw the line?
That's merely bad, rather than terrible. I can understand why it's desirable, but it should only be adopted where a solution that doesn't obstruct traffic isn't possible.
Actually not a bad idea, though I'm not sure how you'd police it for vehicles that spend some or all of their time off the public roads. Granted my straight mileage scheme has the same problem, but probably to a much smaller degree.
I fail tyo see why it is 'bad'. Given that registered disabled drivers are in a distinct minority, allowing them to park their only means of unassisted transport in places that they can actually get to is unlikely to create any significant obstruction. In the few places that it does reduce the speed of able-bodied road users, they will just have to accept that is a price to pay for the benefit of others less fortunate than themselves.
It wouldn't be impossible to make unauthorised parking in them illegal if the will was there.
... and apart from this administration's paralysis whilst staring into the headlights of approaching EU chaos, passing an act of parliament that isn't that controversial isn't that difficult.
