Wednesday, March 17, 2010, 06:53p.m. - • News
I have undertaken a site visit with a local resident and the Head of Parking Operations, New Forest District Council, in The High Street, Totton.It was a useful meeting. The resident concerned was annoyed about vehicles parking on yellow lines on a regular basis, without being ticketed. We did see examples of this at the time of our visit. Whether by co-incidence or design, a civil enforcement officer did show up and put a ticket on a car parked fully on a pavement, directly in front of us.
We were assured that tickets are issued on a regular basis in the area. A gap that has appeared in double yellow lines, (as a result of resurfacing work), will be shortly attended to.
We felt that it was not necessary that parking restrictions should apply on Sundays, as now. We will therefore have this matter reviewed at the next town traffic management meeting. I would welcome any views on this, especially from local residents, before the meeting takes place.
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It is the parking that is a problem, if anything sometimes it helps to have the cars positioned here and there as the cars that are speeding need to slow down.
The traffic is bad and there are many people who live in the High Street that agree something is needed, they speed through here without a care for the residents or the people that work or are goint to work, the footpaths, if any are very narrow and the traffic can get very close to you and sometimes even mount the pavement.
It really does feel like that you dont care about the residents and pedestrians of the High Street and that your more bothered about the roads.