Cats Eyes DO work!

 

It's a good job the Cat's Eyes work here in Langton Court Road, as we may have missed the car parked the other side of Westwood Crescent!

Residents' Parking Zones - Could they come to Brislington?

 

Not something here in Brislington yet, but the people of Cotham & Kingsdown got one of these last week to warn them about the Residents' Parking Zone that comes into effect in January 2011. The first permit will cost £30 per annum; the second will cost £80 per annum. In exceptional cases where a third permit is issued, it will cost £200 per annum. Businesses will have to pay £100 for one vehicle only!

Kingsdown is starting - Will it come to Brislington?

Icy roads in St. Anne's

 

Icy roads, especially after snow and freezing temperatures to follow, mean some people leave sense at home and drive the car down a steep hill. Here's the usual result at the bottom end of Newbridge Road!

Highworth Road, St. Anne's

 

Highworth Road has followed the roads off Sandy Park in becoming a parking problem area. No rear access/garages, multi-occupancy and several cars per household. Even in the case where there is off-street parking, some residents get blocked in their driveway on a regular basis.

Bloomfield Road

 

An odd shot this. Plenty of room to park and the last house in the road before the school has not yet been converted into several flats. The hairdressers beyond the school is also shown and is also now flats nowadays. In short, two properties in one picture with multi-occupancy and not a lot of on-site parking, if any!

St. Anne's - Arlington Road

 

Not the film, just another nightmare of a road for parking your car. To add to the misery, several house owners have given up their front gardens for a parking space. In reality, the parking spaces don't get used all the time.

Here's where the future could catch up with the people with front garden driveways; in Kingsdown, the new Residents' Parking Zone is being finalised and the driveway owners there have ended up with double yellow lines across their driveway & dropped kerb. If a RPZ were implemented here - Nightmare!

The rules in Kingsdown are basically as follows: 

The first permit costs £30 per annum; the second costs £80 per annum. In exceptional cases where a third permit is issued, it will cost £200 per annum. Each household is eligible for 50 free visitors’ permits and can purchase up to 50 additional permits per annum at a cost of £1 per permit.

Welcome to Brislington

 

Here's the A4 Bath Road that leads to the former Somerset village of Brislington. No longer a Village in its own right, Brislington is now a part of Bristol. The road here looks fairly clear, but as we will see later, traffic in the area, and more especially parking, is a major problem.