Dear Sirs
Yet again the fire pump was held up last Tuesday (February 18) on the corner of East Street and Market Street, this time on blue light attendance to a house in Church Square.
When are the authorities going to wake up to the the serious nature of the continued flagrant disregard of the safety of others by these drivers?
Yours,
Jeremy White
[Editor’s note: The answer to your question, of course, that they have and the result is Civil Parking Enforcement, although even this may not address evening problems]
Image Credits: Jeremy White .
I guess people like parking in the High Street because its free. I find the machines in the council parks frustrating and prefer the app based system in the railway car park. Maybe deliveries should be limited and parking banned, it is certainly annoying walking on the narrow crowded pavements when a few cars block the street either parking or cruising for a space. How many of the cars are business owners personal vehicles?
Also my sentiment Robbie Craig. Many are business owners and they are mostly the one’s opposing no cars in the high street. It seems to divide the community so nothing gets done.
I have previously suggested to trial, at least one day a week and see how it works between East Street and West Street for a certain time taking into account deliveries and of course the Community Bus.
But I am pessimistic, it has been talked about for years and now we are getting meters and Rother gets the money.
Not sure that Rother gets a single penny from on-street parking under CPE. The money from the meters controlling on-street parking goes to East Sussex County Council and its appointed agents.
Rother, of course, continues to get all the money from the car parks it owns in Rye, but that is a different matter.
I constantly see families with children and pushchairs, mobility scooters and wheelchairs and many other groups battling to access up the Mint and along the High Street all trying to manoeuvre around parked cars with traffic sometimes speeding along. I am constantly surprised that so far no one has been seriously hurt. I believe that a shared space along The High Street with no parking and right of way to pedestrians would be so beneficial for the town with access for deliveries at designated times in the day. Parking and huge lorries are completely detrimental to business and to the appearance and upkeep of the fabric of the town.
This week in Cinque Ports Street a lady stood on the path was tooted by a car parked on the same path to get out of the way.
Because it wouldn’t get past the editorial staff I won’t tell you what her reaction was.
We know that a substantial number of cars parked in the High are owned by the businesses after the snow showers we had a few years ago – the number of tracks that these vehicles left were minimal. I would also suggest that the reason some people like to park in the High Street is that the town sits on the top of a hill – not everyone is as agile as perhaps they once were, and cannot manage the walk up from the market car park or Gibbets Marsh with ease.