Comments on: Parking on Kingsway Roads

By: soundaim

soundaim — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:21:56 +0000

Agreed. The amount of hassle it’s causing us in Thatcham Avenue beggars belief!

By: Clive

Clive — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 11:56:40 +0000

My personal opinion on this is that the developers have been more than a little greedy in cramming houses into every available square foot of land and very optimistic in assuming that all residents would limit themselves to one car per household!

I’m fully in favour of reducing traffic but without a viable alternative it just isn’t going to happen.

The village is (obviously) a commuter area and – whilst those lucky enough to work in Quedgeley might be able to cycle and those working in the centre of Gloucester could catch the bus – everybody else is going to need a car to get to work.

Plus – as Baz says – we need some facilities for visitor parking.

Of course, extra parking would also be used by residents, (which proves how unrealistic the existing parking facilities are) but at least it would get cars off of front gardens and remove any excuse for illegal parking.

By: Baz_k

Baz_k — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 06:55:57 +0000

Firstly, as I mentioned, my household does only have one car. But there are many around with the same parking, but with 2 permanent cars. I was using my own circ’s as an example, however your own cars are not the only issue. It’s as kingswaymum has said, visitor parking does not exist and unless you have no friends visit, this creates a problem (unless you buy a house with lots of car parking spaces)!

As an aside, when we bought this house we were told by the builders that yellow lines would not be happening outside our house, hence when it was announced that they might be going to put them in, I was a bit annoyed.

And as a point of clarification, the double-yellows are not outside my house (yet) and thus I do not park illegally.

By: kingswaymum

kingswaymum — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:37:12 +0000

Parking is always going to cause someone a problem! However, the issue over safety on Thatcham Ave is of more concern to me than where we can park our vehicles!
(I wonder how many of us actually use our garages)!

Visitor parking seems to be a big concern. All around Kingsway there are pockets of land that could be converted into small parking bays. Maybe this is something that could be considered by QUVL? However, we would then face problems of residents using them as a permanent parking facility!

By: ajr

ajr — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:00:05 +0000

Only double-yellow on one side of the road? That would create one massive, long, single-lane road without any passing places! Sorry, but that’s nonsense!

Thatcham Avenue is going to be the only access to Kingsway School and as a result, will be chaos in mornings and afternoons without yellow lines. Add regular bus services onto the same road and the requirement is quite clearly for no parking along that road.

The current parking situation risks lives and creates a high risk of accident.

If you have a need for more than one parking space, then rent or buy a house with more than one parking space. If your company provides a hire car and you park it illegally, I am fairly sure that they will not impressed when it gets damaged due to dangerous parking!

By: Mclovin

Mclovin — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:12:09 +0000

I agree about paving over the gardens. We already have someone doing that, having chucked a tonne of stone on top of the ruts created by sticking their car their since last year, and that looks awful.

But I’m not sure that a one-sided double yellow is practical. Firstly because the volume of cars on Thatcham Avenue mean that you generally have to travel a long way down without any pulling in points. So if another car comes (flying) around the bend, you’re knackered! I seem to get this already. I would also say that I personally dont want cars outside my place, and if they were opposite they would make accessing property problematic.

This seems to be the case in every development now. I’m afraid cash is king and space for parking does not equate to profits. Plus we are supposed to be getting the bus or using our bikes remember? We dont need our own cars!

(I’ll get down from my soapbox now)!