Residents' parking zone coming to Cotham in December
A second residents-only parking zone will be in place by December according to the city council.
The new parking scheme in Cotham is being introduced to deter commuters from clogging up residential streets and to encourage people to use public transport.
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The city council approved the scheme, which will run from Cotham Hill to Redland Road, in July.
A spokesman for the council told ThisisBristol that work would begin within the next few weeks to mark out the bays and the double-yellow lines.
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After a lengthy consultation period and arguments on both sides, the council introduced the first RPZ pilot in Kingsdown nearly two years ago.
Residents covered by the RPZ have to pay £30 a year to park one car, £80 for two while businesses would have to pay £100 for each parking permit.
People who do not have a permit would have to pay to park during working hours or run the risk of a parking ticket.
The zone will operate from 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday. Each household is entitled to 100 visitors’ permits per year, the first 50 will be free and the rest will cost £1 each.
Comments
by r0n4n
Tuesday, October 09 2012, 8:30PM
“GoveKnows I must strongly disagree with you. As a new resident (I moved to Aberdeen Rd in early September from St Pauls - another RPZ area I should probably add).
I was initially pleased to find out that residents permits were coming into being as I was finding difficulty in getting parked in the evening after work - often having to park ~5 minutes walk away (not a big deal but not pleasant in the wet weather of late). But now I am beginning to see the zones being painted and it is clear that this will only exasperate the already dire situation:
The zones do not mark out individual bays for cars to park (so there will still be the problem of cars parked with just-not-enough-space to park another car in between them);
double yellow lines are parked around all corners and are long on each side meaning that there is less space to legally park;
in some places there are car-width areas of double-yellows where there seems to be no need for them other than to possibly allow cars to pass (even though there is plenty of room for this on the road);
and (again) long double yellows across the front of peoples driveways - many of these driveways can fit 2-3 cars when very often the household only has 1!
However I am sure, after the initial cost of painting and signage, Bristol City Council will be making a pretty penny out of the £30/£80/£200 a year SOME residents will pay. Others will simply do what they have had to do anyway - park further away outside of this new zone. Believe me more and more people will be doing this and the lovely residents of the surrounding area (who up until now have had little trouble getting parked) will be faced with the problem.
I am furious, and am considering starting a community group to oppose this.”
by GoveKnows
Tuesday, September 25 2012, 1:01PM
“Well done Bristol City Council, I'm sure 98% of the residents will be supporting the scheme.
*ankers.”