I took a walk along Albert Road earlier today - buying gift-wrap for my Mum’s birthday as it happens. As always, Albert Road was choked by illegally parked vehicles. It always is and I am always shocked by it, but today I decided it was time to start making some noise about it. In the short walk from the Haslemere Road junction to the King’s Theatre area I spotted at least 15 different offending vehicles. It is obvious from the quantity of offending vehicles that motorists consider the chance of being caught and fined to be minute.
I am hoping that if I (and hopefully some other people) start complaining about this then some Community Safety Officers will be tasked to deal with this. So - next time you walk down Albert Road grab some pics and send them PCC’s parking office, and to your local Councillor. That’s what I’ve just done.
The Rogue’s Gallery
| Outside Sainsbury's near the junction with St Ronan's Road. Always a trouble spot these days. Three cars are parked on the double yellow lines despite the plentiful availability of legitimate spaces opposite. In mitigation the red car does have a disabled badge, neither of the others do though. |
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| Opposite the Wedgewood Rooms this 4x4 driver has decided to use the bus stop as his personal parking space. |
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| At the traffic lights this taxi driver has parked on the double yellow lines to use the post office. He had no fare at the time. |
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| facing the other way at the lights these two vehicles have parked on the double yellow lines and completely blocked the cycle lane. |  |
| I appreciate loading and unloading is permitted on double yellow lines, but surely there is a better way than this? Parking vans and lorries half on the pavement on a busy street in the middle of the day just seems wrong. |
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| This 4x4 driver simply can't be bothered to reverse into the nearby space and has opted for the double yellows. |
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| Two cars stopped to do their shopping at Tesco. The one in front is a taxi - that's the driver with his bags. |
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| On the way back past the new Sainsbury's there are even more vehicles. |
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| Stopped for a break on the double yellow lines outside Craneswater School. |
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| Once again, why bother reverse parking when you can just use the double yellows? |
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