Sarah has just pointed out that tonight there is an article about parking in the Evening News. A double page spread, no less. And what does it say? What misery of us Zone 8ers have they brought to light? Here are the first few of paragraphs:
Pulling into Marchmont Crescent, you can’t help but notice something has changed. There are no new buildings, not even any new shops, yet there’s something very different…
Then it hits you – there are parking spaces. Lots of EMPTY parking spaces. Just a few months ago, finding a free space in this heavily-polluted affluent area which borders Edinburgh’s green lung, the Meadows, was akin to finding a needle in a very large haystack.
Now the tables have turned, though the fact that the spaces are no longer free goes a long way to explaining why they are available.
It has been almost two months since the council’s Controlled Parking Zone extended into Marchmont and the Grange, and there is no doubt that the streets are quieter – finding a parking space has probably never been easier.
In Sarah’s words, “What are they ******* talking about?” All very nice for the top end of the Crescent, I’m sure they’re all dead chuffed and good luck to them. It is one thing to have no one notice the disaster here, it’s quite another to have them think that we’re swimming in spaces.
By the way, I think that the slant of the article is to suggest that businesses are getting a raw deal while residents have far too many spaces.
I think we need a letter to them fairly quickly. Would anyone like to volunteer?
Mailin has found this link to the article,
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