Car Parking Charges?

Musings from Medway is very proud to be supporting the efforts by Conservative blogger Alan W Collins on his challenge to the punitive and regressive position of our current Medway Conservative Council, which has fleeced residents for parking after hours.

Parking in Medway is disjointed and is poorly managed. Residents parking zones are not adequately policed, overnight charges are regressive, an army of traffic wards patrol and clamp, the 'white vulture' CCTV car is regularly caught breaking the law, in a vain effort to catch out rate payers who are not. We also have the indignity of parking toll machines which quite literally commit day light robbery by not giving change. This whilst two major car parks in Chatham are dangerously used as a major A road because of the inept management over the Chatham two-way system (see Chatham two-way video) below.

Individually it is a sign of poor management. Together it shows a total lack of investment in resource to appropriately manage and co-ordinate parking and transport generally.

Please complete this questionnaire on parking whether you think Medway Council should be charging people to park beyond 7pm? Do you want to get involved in a campaign to end the charging at 7pm?

This blog welcomes a debate between members of the ruling Conservative Group on parking. Hopefully this debate may result in some joined up thinking.