Far to many white vans parking in St. Helier, and to wide blocking up the streets and car parks said the influential man,
I was having a conversation with a while back. Whats the plan said I, the plan is to ban all vans over a certain size he said using his chairmans frown.
There's a couple of problems that you will have to address first, said I.
I won't bore you with all the details but the main point of my disagreement was that society is made up of a tapestry of workers, providing services and skills in order to make a living and in Jersey, there being such a premium to rent storage space, tradesman will use their van to be efficient. He went off moaning mumbling to himself !
Pressure on parking the Constable of St. Helier tells us, page 19 of the town crier, its taken a long time for him to accept that fact. Worse, the majority of the big house really don't care about the average Joe or Josephine let alone Mr I need to carry tools and spares to fix your house. If they lost the privileged parking granted to themselves by themselves, they may then in fact join the reality of the nightmare, which is real and now, and affecting quality of life in Jersey's main residential, business and retail capital.
In 2012 the Esplanade Carpark will be gone thanks to JDC Ltd but promised car parking elsewhere is promised, like Gas Place ?
Millennium park is here the car park is history. The Constable, happy to explain how residents parking is a big success, forgets that parking at weekends and after six and before eight was free for anyone. Now friends cannot visit, no parking allowed, and rather than a fluid and fairer system we now have in very reduced residents parking at a cost of £230 pounds per annum and a restrictive practice serving a small minority.
It is of course not all Constable Crowcroft's fault. There should have been parking installed under the new town park as the original plan. It happened at the Waterfront. This is to serve a loss making pool, food and cinema businesses and no doubt an overflow for Radisson's and Dandara's flats. Not for the like of ordinary working residents, who only got a park because of a ring binder got grouchy. Count yourselves lucky you ordinary working people.
Page nineteen also tells us how far removed from reality some politicians really are when if I may quote we are told, " we were being reassured that the parking displaced from Gas Place could be accommodated at Green Street".
Thats about right really, pouring with rain, living in the residential area around David or even Gas Place with a small child and the shopping and all you have to do is park in Green Street car park and walk home tired, wet and wondering if the people who decided on these dismal schemes to improve the quality of peoples lives actually live on this planet let alone Jersey.
Just in................ Minister Lewis of TTS says St Helier has enough parking, speaking from his imagined spaceship, somewhere unknown to islanders.
Boatyboy. ,
