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by Lib Dem team on 17 February, 2012
Following pressure from local Lib Dems, including Mark Hunter MP, the car park at Gatley Station is to be brought up to British Parking Association standards, with the bays repainted and better signage erected.
We’ve been concerned that drivers have received parking tickets from Northern Rail (who run the car park) even though there are no yellow lines or no parking signs and the bays are so faintly marked out as to be all but invisible.
Tickets have been cancelled and Northern Rail have undertaken not to give out any more penalty notices until the car park has been brought up the standard.
Have you been given a penalty notice on the Gatley Station car park and not had it revoked? If so, please get in touch as we are working to ensure all the tickets wrongly given out are cancelled.
7 Comments
Wonderful to see that traffic can now flow freely down Cambridge Road now that a yellow line has been painted. Not so wonderful that station traffic now blocks Belmont Road – counted 10 cars parked last week. Could you please advise me if I should take the same action some residents on Cambridge have taken by placing no parking cones in the road? How about resident parking for the top of Belmont or give us some cones
Hi Phil,
You’re right – when yellow lines go down, it tends to move cars around, not make them vanish.
That’s why we’re very careful about where yellow lines go. We don’t paint lines just to make an empty road, only if parked cars are either causing a safety issue or physically stopping people getting in and out of their driveways will we look at it.
That was the case on Cambridge Road – if it also becomes an issue elsewhere, we can certainly look at it.
You have suddenly chosen to trawl waters that have already been fished . The room available for parking on railway property is very limited indeed and they must make the best possible use of it subject to all considerations.
The inevitable overflow of vehicles unable to park thereon is unlikely to diminish and so surrounding roads are bound to be affected , whether or not yellow lines are applied and policed !! There has already been a visible creep back from Cambridge Road onto Belmont Road , something that I predicted some weeks ago on the Gatley net web site with promise of further extension .. It is a problem that yellow lines can never solve so please ferain from assuring local residents that everything is going according to plan when it is not. It is the the local roads that will increasingly suffer from unecessary obstruction for goodness sake ,not the station car park so project your thoughts into the future and take steps to resolve that now.
Hi Peter,
I agree. As I mentioned before, yellow lines tend to move cars around, not make them disappear. That’s why we recommend them only when there’s a genuine problem with safety or access, not just to make one road clear at the expense of another.
In fact, when the change was originally proposed, we delivered a letter to the houses near the bottom of Belmont Road and round the corner of Cambridge Road in which we said it was being looked at, explained the situation and said it was likely to result in the six or so cars that park along the side migrating around the corner.
It is not just the six cars or so that have migrated around the corner. We already had a number of cars parking on Cambridge and Belmont. I have counted up to 16 and that will now be added to.
What do you expect, if you live near a rail station you are going to get cars parking on the roads close by, thats life.
Same with schools and shops.
Safety consideration, then why not address all-day parking by workers and speeding on St. Annes Road. The parking causes a particular problem travelling South and approaching the second single lane hazard, there the parked cars block the view beyond the hazard and reduce the road width to barely allow 2 cars to pass – certainly not larger vehicles.