Parking Questions are Traffic Questions

February 2, 2008 8:30 am 0 comments
written by: Lewes Labour - Campaign team

Campaigner Jonathan Spencer has been asking a number of business people in lewes what the answer to the bad parking scheme is.  Overwhelming is the concern that traffic is a problem in Lewes, and Spencer has noticed at rush hour that the air pollution is terrible as the streets lock up from Station street to the Pheonix Causeway.

Most feel parking administration needs to have a more softly softly approach but at the same time charges and restrictions on parking need to be policed.  How is this to be accomplished if like the speed restrictions many people feel the law does not have to apply to them. 
It is over 10 years since Spencer first asked why their wasn’t Park and Ride in Lewes, or other facilities that would enable people to get into Lewes but restrict traffic and traffic polution. Nothing has been done.  Its hard to find anyone who agrees with the present parking scheme, and though changes have been made they are to little effect.
Spencer suggests Limited free parking in car parks, for 3 hours with a flat charge for longer than this, and easing restrictions directly outside shops., but toughening them elsewhere.  The scheme does not make money so why not use it for what it was meant for to ease traffic…to this end park and ride or a similar scheme needs to be introduced.
Isn’t it time for a change in Lewes a change for the better, where the people that live there are listened to, where the people that effect lives are accountable.
Labour wants a change, the change to a new and fairer Lewes.
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