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Lancaster parking misery to continue



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Published Date: 04 December 2008
PARKING problems in the Bowerham and Primrose areas of Lancaster could take years to sort out, according to the University of Cumbria.
At a Police and Community Together (PACT) meeting on the Bowerham Road campus on Tuesday night, members of the public demanded to know what action would be taken to relieve problems caused by students and staff parking in residential streets.

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issue has been repeatedly raised by residents, who say that they are at their wits' end with the lack of action taken by the university to help solve the problem.

One Golgotha Road resident said: "Pretty soon I can see things getting out of hand and there being some serious road rage."

Mike Baker, the university's head of estates, said he couldn't say when residents would see any plans to relieve parking problems, and admitted that parking issues had "fallen by the wayside" due to the university getting itself off the ground.

The university has now appointed a travel plan co-ordinator, who attended the meeting to listen to residents' concerns. Part of his job is to work out a travel plan. However, he will be covering all 12 campuses, the majority of which are in Cumbria. The university introduced car parking charges on campus in September 2005, a move being blamed for the number of students and teachers looking for alternative places to park.

Mr Baker added that the X1 bus service had been restarted in August to take students to and from the train station, and said that the charging regime on the university's car park needed to be reviewed. A residents' parking scheme was also discussed. However, this would need to be supported by the whole community.



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Starling,

04/12/2008 22:42:48
It would be incredibly easy to sort this mess out, but the "uni" would lose the money they get from their paid parking scheme, so they refuse to do so. Didn't the auction mart offer their parking lot for parking? And didn't the "uni" turn it down? Because they wouldn't make any money from it? Not that they said so in so many words, of course ...

As for a residents' parking scheme, the community will turn it down, of course. There are too many houses that have been converted into flats or student housing, with 4 or 5 cars per house. Those residents won't want a parking scheme, of course. Someone has also spread the rumour that a parking permit would cost 200 quid a year, so someone's obviously trying to sabotage it.
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village idiot downunder,

Sydney 05/12/2008 03:30:26
stop whinging it's like that in very city in the world, it's life get on with it.........come if you want to know about parking issues come and live here in Sydney. Hardly any on street parking what there is is limited to 2 hours at around 4 pound an hour and then car parks are 6.50 an hour. Free bikes for all uni students maybe and open during the Summer and close in winter, heck it's only for 3 or 4 years and it's a bloody permanenet holiday anyway from what I observed whilst living there for 45 years.
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Starling,

09/12/2008 16:59:35
It's definitely not like that in every city in the world, especially in residential areas. In Germany you must build a parking space when you build a new house, for instance, although in the inner cities, in the older areas, there are problems, which are solved by allowing people to park in spaces that aren't really for parking (why not allow people with small cars to park on the side of the speed bumps, for instance?). They also build separate parking garages for residents.

It's not surprising it's like it in Sydney, though, since Australia is more like Britain than its inhabitants would like to admit (that's what my brother - who lives there - tells me anyway!).

Anyway, I try to use my car as little as possible, which is easy enough if I don't have to go to Manchester late (the trains stop running far too early).
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