Lack of money threatens Marlow residents' wish for end to ticket dodgers parking in their street (From Bucks Free Press)
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Lack of money threatens Marlow residents' wish for end to ticket dodgers parking in their street
6:15pm Wednesday 8th July 2009 in
A LACK of funds threatens to stop residents being granted their wish for an end to town centre parking ticket dodgers clogging up their streets.
Agitated residents from a trio of adjoining streets in Marlow - Penwood Road, Westwood Road and Harwood Road – want a change to parking restrictions because they say it has become “one big car park”.
Parking laws have been more strictly enforced after Wycombe District Council took over responsibility in October from Thames Valley Police, which gave the job a low priority.
Commuters, shoppers and parents and pupils at Sir William Borlase’s School in West Street have started using the three roads to park in order to dodge wardens in the town centre, they believe.
The group of householders submitted a 60 page document to Buckinghamshire County Council parking manager John Charlton in June.
It followed a meeting at Christ Church United Reformed Church in Oxford Road, Marlow, where townsfolk expressed dismay about the impact parking clampdown in since October.
Richard Pearson, 68, a magistrate of Harwood Road, who chaired the meeting in June said parking was worse than it had ever been since he moved to Marlow in 1966.
“We want to make it clear to the authorities at BCC that there is a serious problem - we are all living in a car park now,” he said.
Organisers said another problem is the lack of spaces for emergency vehicles such as ambulances to park.
Mr Charlton said he had been inundated by around 500 requests for parking restriction changes across Wycombe District but the concerns of the affiliate of Marlow residents would be considered as part of that process.
An informal and a formal consultation will take place but a lack of money could prove a stumbling block, he admitted.
Buckinghamshire County councillor Doug Anson is examining alternative ways of funding and Marlow Town Council could also be asked to contribute money, he said.
Mr Charlton said “every effort” would be made to address residents' concerns “once the money is available” and inspections will be carried out in each area.
One of the key concerns raised by residents from the trinity of Marlow streets was the hazards posed by vehicles being left on the corners of roads and at junctions.
They proposed double yellow lines should be painted in these areas to prevent parking and improve safety.
Mr Charlton said: “If a safety concern is raised we will address that through a different way.”
Comments(24)
wayneo
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6:35pm Wed 8 Jul 09
chris740
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6:49pm Wed 8 Jul 09
then people will use them,
stop ripping us of wycombe council
678
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7:31pm Wed 8 Jul 09
chris740 wrote:how else are they going to pay for heir expence accounts and 3 course lunches!
bring the prices down on car parks . then people will use them, stop ripping us of wycombe council
wayneo
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7:43pm Wed 8 Jul 09
678 wrote:Ah, but Steve Hayes pays for those doesn't he :-)
chris740 wrote: bring the prices down on car parks . then people will use them, stop ripping us of wycombe councilhow else are they going to pay for heir expence accounts and 3 course lunches!
ferrellcat
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1:22am Thu 9 Jul 09
SDJones
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6:42am Thu 9 Jul 09
demoness
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8:01am Thu 9 Jul 09
FFS - it is obvious - if the ambulance had parked on the road, thus narrowing the road way it would have caused an obstruction.
WTF do you all think it is doing there.. having a break?
NO - the paramedics are probably saving someone's life - hence why it is there.
Lets hope NONE of you ever need an ambulance - your comments sicken me...
Blaze Falconburger
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8:15am Thu 9 Jul 09
Instead question why the ambulance has to park like that.
But even if the road was empty and it was an emergency the ambulance would still park there to be closer to the scene.
parcelman
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8:24am Thu 9 Jul 09
demoness wrote:Spot on
Sorry - are you all so mean spirited and petty that you have not questioned why that ambulance is parked illegally?? FFS - it is obvious - if the ambulance had parked on the road, thus narrowing the road way it would have caused an obstruction. WTF do you all think it is doing there.. having a break? NO - the paramedics are probably saving someone's life - hence why it is there. Lets hope NONE of you ever need an ambulance - your comments sicken me...
ferrellcat
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8:34am Thu 9 Jul 09
demoness
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8:49am Thu 9 Jul 09
ferrellcat wrote:FFS
good point demoness I didnt think of that one.I thought it was parked there to ratchet up this pathetic story,dramatise the scene, demonise the poor accused motorist,a parking point to meet attendance times,or the most damning thought was they had gone for an ice cream!How did I miss the point of them rushing in to save someones life.Maybe its because they would have just pulled up and sod the traffic if it was an emergency and not park so the driver cant get out of his door!
Are you seriously saying that the ambulance was planted there as some sort of photo opportunity!
Have you any idea of the pressures that these people work under and to suggest that they are in some sort of collusion with the police and BFP is juvenile in the extreme.
And anyone with a modicum of sense would know that an ambulance driver does have to consider the quickest and safest way of getting to the patient -good lord!
SDJones
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2:03pm Thu 9 Jul 09
ferrellcat
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4:27pm Thu 9 Jul 09
demoness
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5:03pm Thu 9 Jul 09
SDJones wrote:I would say that anyone who is that nitpicky that they have nothing better to do than sit behind a keyboard and moan about our essential services parking should get out more and hope and pray that they never ever have need of an ambulance.
it should park on the residents drive-way they clearly have whacking great ones because its marlow ffs what if a mother has a pram and cant get through there so has to go on the road and gets mown down what would you say then?????????????
I am sure, when the ambulance arrived that they weren't thinking of where best to park.
Also - you suggesting that they should park on the residents driveway because it is Marlow is a fascile argument in the extreme.
If we are going to play the nit pickers game then I would argue that there is no obvious driveway in that particular road.
You have lost the argument - admit it gracefully and move on...
Malc London
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5:26pm Thu 9 Jul 09
SDJones wrote:Just what I was thinking. Not just a pram, you wouldn't get a wheelchair round. It's extremely dangerous.
it should park on the residents drive-way they clearly have whacking great ones because its marlow ffs what if a mother has a pram and cant get through there so has to go on the road and gets mown down what would you say then?????????????
If it was on an emergency call, then block the road, not the pavement.
As for the parking problem, you don't solve it by painting yellow lines, if people need to park, build a car park.
demoness
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5:39pm Thu 9 Jul 09
Must be marvellous to be so perfect.
Tell you what - why not write and complain to the ambulance service? Oh and while you are there, make sure you complain to the poor person who needed the ambulance...
I bet you are the sort of people who don't make way for ambulances with blue lights either.
SDJones
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6:18pm Thu 9 Jul 09
demoness
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6:53am Fri 10 Jul 09
SDJones wrote:But not where the ambulance is..
i havent lost any argument there are clearly driveways along that road
I don't believe I am having this argument with someone quite so mean spirited , but let me ask you... as an "upright" citzizen, if an ambulance wss parked in such a way in your road, would you find out where they were and ask them to move it?
SDJones
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7:19am Fri 10 Jul 09
demoness
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9:37am Fri 10 Jul 09
SDJones wrote:What a lovely person you are.. really it is so good to know that such people inhabit High Wycombe.
yes
Please god you or your loved ones never have to use an ambulance ... I really mean that.
I pity people like you.. I really do.
And I would put money that you wouldn't.. you, like Ivor, would prefer to come on here and be full of bravado.
Pitiful - I think I will avoid your posts from now onwards - they rarely contain anything that ressembles coherent thought anyway.
SDJones
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10:24am Fri 10 Jul 09
bird-neck
demoness
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12:59pm Fri 10 Jul 09
SDJones wrote:Funny enough, I can take a wind up - this was not. This was someone trying to be a smart alec and failing dismally.
great you obviously cant take a wind up, chill out bird-neck
My post stands as before.
SDJones
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1:59pm Fri 10 Jul 09
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6:20pm Wed 8 Jul 09