Residents of Mayflower Road and Plymouth Road may be pleased to know that funding has been approved to place parking restrictions in their street.
Residents may recall that you were previously consulted about this earlier on in the year. The outcome is that majority supported some form of parking restriction as many commuters (using the station) tended to park in your streets.
The work is also due to commence latest autumn 2007.
The purpose of this personal blogsite is to pass Ward or Thurrock related information across, and to allow residents comment on plans or proposals. Residents suggestions for developments in the community are certainly very welcome.
5 comments:
Where do you suggest we park. The station car park is not big enough and they charge around 800 pounds per year.
The buses aren't timed with the trains any more, so I've stopped using them. Also they have doubled the price of the buses under your administration to 2 pounds per day for the return journey. Why can we still not use travelcards and the like?
Things like the lack of school places for next year (we all know about this year) are more worthy of your attentions than blooming more parking restrictions. I've just read in th gazette that more parking tickets than ever have been handed out in thurrock, does the money go back to the council from these fines?
Walk or cycle to the Station you lazy sod
I would love to believe me. Unfortunately due to the madness of Thurrock Council, they have put 1 of my infants in Campus and the other in Warren, so I'm always driving around before 0900 just to get the 2 of them in school. Have done for the last 2 years. My wife picks the car up later and does the reverse journey panic driving between 2 primary schools, at throw out time.
In response to the first comment:
We noticed the problems with parking at the station some time ago, that is why in 2005 we had an agreement with Lakeside that residents could use their car park instead.
See link:
http://www.c2c-offline.co.uk/press/chaffparking05.htm
Tunde you're not a bad Councillor and you've done some very good things; but opening up Lakeside to all and sundry hasn't been one of them. The local roads around the station are now congested as are the trains during rush hour. All thanks to the swathes of people from presumably south Essex travelling to Lakeside to park for free and then jumping on the train, and thus paying a cheaper fare than from the "home" station and avoiding parking fees all together.
This is not very in tune with Cameron's all new "green" Conservative party is it? You should be encouraging people to leave their cars at home and use public transport or to walk/cycle instead.
You could start by getting those buses service (especially Arriva) that eminate from London (Havering) to accept TfL travelcards and Oyster along the entire route as is the case across the river in Kent (Bluewater).
PS I hope you've shelved the idea of building a car park at the station at Ockendon, as all the time Lakeside is "free" nobody in their right mind would use it?
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