RE 'Pay to park outside your home?' (YEP, July 16). This was very interesting and obviously yet another way of extracting cash from that easy target, the motorist. But then again, by giving me a resident's parking permit I may be able to park near my own home.
As the current situation stands, where I live there are 16 bungalows, all sheltered accommodation. There are only seven parking spaces and seven of us have cars. However, next week we have another resident moving in who also has a car, so that become
s eight cars in seven spaces.
Oh yes, I forget to mention we are all disabled in some way and have disabled parking permits. We have the right to park in thousands of disabled parking spaces throughout the UK and yet we have no automatic right to park outside where we live.
The local authority apparently refused to put in disabled parking because they can't be policed and would therefore not be a deterrent if someone parked here.
As it stands now you take a risk even going to the shops as you may not have somewhere to park when you return.
For an able-bodied person this may not be too much of an inconvenience but for someone disabled with a bootful of shopping or bag of frozen food it becomes a real problem.
I, for one, can only walk a few yards on a good day. If I have to park further away because I can't get close to my house I have difficulty getting home and then on a bad day I am trapped indoors as I can't walk to my car which is too far away.
There is no interest from the local authorities to rectify the situation.
If someone here has visitors they are allowed to park wherever there is a space and if we are not here we can't come back until they go or we park dangerously on a bend or footpath.
So yes, please bring on residents' parking and not just in the city itself. But pay for it? No way.
They shouldn't have screwed up the supertram or even done away with the trams from when I was a boy. Which planet do they live on?
MR D J WRIGHTON, Henshaw Avenue, Yeadon
l Regarding parking. We live in Headingley where most of the houses are occupied by students, having three car owners in each with only one space.
Where will all the surplus cars go? My solution to solve the major traffic problem in Headingley – turn Beckett Park into a free car park. It is no longer used as a park. Students prefer to play in the dirty back streets.
Robert Holburn, Headingley Avenue, Leeds
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