Alan Roden from the Evening News has just told me that we have some success! He's forwarded a quotation to me from Ricky Henderson, the Executive Member for Transport. Here it is:
'After a productive meeting with a group of Marchmont residents, we are reviewing the streets in Zones 7 and 8 which are under the most parking pressures. We then plan to allow permit holders in these streets to park in certain S1 streets temporarily. In the long term, the boundaries of the three zones will be reviewed and are likely to be redrawn.
'As we do routinely, we will also review the parking bays and yellow lines to ensure safety as well as balance competing parking demands.
'We look forward to continue working with residents to come up with innovative solutions like this.'
Alan says there'll be a new article in the Evening News tomorrow.
Congratulations everyone, it looks like we've made it (just have to wait for the letters to come through, now).
I'd like to thank everyone who's helped with this campaign. Lots of you have put in an enormous amount of work. Thank you very much :-)
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I would like to thank everyone who was involved with this issue,the work you have done and the success you have achieved is outstanding and hopefully in the near future i will not need to drive around for an hour trying to find a space :) - THANK YOU !!!
IT’S WORTH REMINDING local residents that local councillors are elected to represent their views. The City of Edinburgh Council employees are employed to supply services for the benefit of local residents, not make extra revenues from us and certainly not to make our life more difficult. Please also remember, that The City Council owns no property, the public own all these properties and it’s the Council’s job to manage and administrate on behalf of all citizens. This looks like local residents are being ‘accommodated’ by one of our employees to “revue”, not quick fix, a situation that they, through greed and stupidity, mismanaged in the first place. I hardly think this cause for celebration. What is urgently needed is the City Council to instruct “Parking Attendants” not to book any Zone 8 permit holders in Zone 8 ticket spaces. Now that would be a triumph for local democracy.
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