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Castlefields resident who drives down Martin Drive every morning said:Yep, there's double yellows by the rugby club side main roundabout. Cars were even parked on double yellows this morning & there was traffic warden ticketing them!! There were more vehicles entering the estate when I left so think they're doing more lines, hard when everyone has blocked the road!
& other places too! It will just push the parking problems elsewhere round town, when's the planning department going to cotton on that stafford is a residential town and this was so before the motor car was invented, and they can't solve the town centre parking problems by pushing the parking issue around onto the town residents and already overcrowded streets.Oh great more of the ignorant commuters will be parking on Brunswick Terrace.
& other places too! It will just push the parking problems elsewhere round town, when's the planning department going to cotton on that stafford is a residential town and this was so before the motor car was invented, and they can't solve the town centre parking problems by pushing the parking issue around onto the town residents and already overcrowded streets.
The cost of parking is extortionate, I can't blame people for choosing the nearest free alternative but this puts pressure on town residents thus making it a difficult place to live and pushing residents out rather than traffic which will lead to the degeneration of the town making it a less desirable place to live, work & shop etc.. This by the way is already happening, other similar towns can cope and their towns are attractive desirable places to live and work, Stafford has chosen the greedy degenerative path and not looked at any other option other than putting up parking fees, the bus network is overpriced and poor and why it it poorly utilised!There isn't a shortage of parking though. So if on street parking in and near town is properly managed then people will either revert to going in a car park or shock horror make their journey in another way.
For those saying that stafford car parking is extortionate I would like to point out that you can get a council car park pass - to use in ANY council car park in stafford which makes the cost of car parking severely reduced. the annual one works out as £30 per month - £1 a day to park in any council car park at any time. I'm assuming that a lot of the cars parking on castlefields are commuters who work in the town centre. I'd pay £1 a day to park more locally to my place of work - I'm guessing the castlefields people have a bit of a walk to the town centre from there. I don't think these passes are very well advertised...
http://www.staffordbc.gov.uk/season-tickets---frequently-asked-questionsYou got any more info on this? A few people at my place get fleeced by car parks daily.....