Residential parking permits to be introduced in streets near Stafford town centre

[Yalla]

Parking permits mean more money to the council doesn't it? I would love to see a trial park and ride system to be introduced in Stafford.

 

[Gramaisc]

Do large numbers want to visit from the outside world? Or is most of the traffic from within the town?

 

[cj1]

I still can't understand why people believe they have the right to park on a public highway to the exclusion of all others just because their property fronts it.

 

[John Marwood]

I still can't understand why people believe they have the right to park on a public highway to the exclusion of all others just because their property fronts it.

They don't

 

[Gramaisc]

They don't

They do, in the sense that they (often) believe it, and they don't, in the sense that they don't have any particular right to the highway adjacent to their premises, in general.

 

[kyoto49]

I don't believe I'd ever be able to do the 17 miles to work in under 2 hours by public transport.

Look, there will always be those fir who a car is the only sensible way of getting to town or to the train station to work. I get thst. But for the vast majority of the residents of suburban Stafford, Parkside, HolmCroft, Creswell, wildwood, Walton, weeping cross, baswich, the meadows, silkmore, Burton manor, highfields, beaconside etc etc there is just no need to drive to town or the station to then leave your car parked doing nothing but clog up streets and car parks for 10, 11, 12 hours a day. It's makes more sense from every perspective to leave cars at home for such short distances and use public transport. There does need to be decent public transport though which was what I did say. We can send men to the moon, surely we can provide decent affordable public transport if we had the will to.

 

[Gramaisc]

We can send men to the moon, surely we can provide decent affordable public transport if we had the will to.

Not since 1972.

 

[John Marwood]

Look, there will always be those fir who a car is the only sensible way of getting to town or to the train station to work. I get thst. But for the vast majority of the residents of suburban Stafford, Parkside, HolmCroft, Creswell, wildwood, Walton, weeping cross, baswich, the meadows, silkmore, Burton manor, highfields, beaconside etc etc there is just no need to drive to town or the station to then leave your car parked doing nothing but clog up streets and car parks for 10, 11, 12 hours a day. It's makes more sense from every perspective to leave cars at home for such short distances and use public transport. There does need to be decent public transport though which was what I did say. We can send men to the moon, surely we can provide decent affordable public transport if we had the will to.

You don't seem to appreciate just how heavy my Parker pen is.

I couldn't possibly carry it on foot all the way to the station

 

[PeterD]

If I get to park outside my house this month I will celebrate with a small scone.

 

[John Marwood]

So, basically draw a circle of one mile radius from the town centre/ railway station and that's your current on street parking area, probably for those people who live in the donut villages that surround the town.

Then add on 250 metres each year or for each parking price rise

By 2059 Eccleshall/Gnosall/Haywoods people will be very fit as they will by then be driving 250 metres from their homes, parking up, and then walking 7 miles to the station for work

 

[Wormella]

Do large numbers want to visit from the outside world? Or is most of the traffic from within the town?

Being a regular train commuter now I often talk to people from Cannock, Rugely, Penkridge, Barlaston, Stone etc who drive to Stafford to get whichever train they need because there's only one an hour along certain train routes and it's quicker, cheaper in some cases and more reliable to do that then relay on making connections.

 

[proactive]

If I get to park outside my house this month I will celebrate with a small scone.

Steady man! No need to go over the top.

 

[Jonah]

Easy solution is to buy a house with a drive and park on that.

*lights fuse and walks away*

 

[Gramaisc]

I often talk to people from Cannock.

 

[Kopite76]

We manage brilliantly in Castletown with the permits. Stops all the holidaymakers parking up for 2 weeks and soddin off to the railway station.

I don't think Castletown works that well tbh. It's ok if you get home before 6pm because there's spaces but if I'm on a late shift I sometimes have park on timber field road due to lack of spaces. Should be 24hr parking for residents only imo

 

[Glam]

I don't think Castletown works that well tbh. It's ok if you get home before 6pm because there's spaces but if I'm on a late shift I sometimes have park on timber field road due to lack of spaces. Should be 24hr parking for residents only imo

Actually, I have to agree with you.What really pisses me off is, when Simply Bilash use 2 parking spaces for their delivery/staff cars. You're lucky if they move them during the evening, choosing to use the Galaxy instead. If I finish at 20.30 and have the next day off, I have to drive round for ages trying to find a space. Don't start me moaning, I could go for hrs.

 

[PeterD]

you know if you lazy people got on a bike more often instead of clogging up the roads and choking us all with your fumes.......

 

[Frontal]

I stopped cycling to town after I got side-swiped by cars in stafford twice in one day. Drivers don't like bikes using roundabouts, it would seem

 

[Trumpet]

start me moaning, I could go for hrs.

Ooh, you tease.

 

[Gramaisc]

Drivers don't like bikes ...

..is the general rule.