URGENT! Avoid Some Streets in S1

Our ability to park in S1 is causing some discontent in a few streets there. The worst affected is Marchmont Crescent South. Please, avoid parking in that street at all and let your neighbours know, too.

There are some other streets where concerns are less vociferous but please try to avoid these as well.

• Lauderdale Street
• Spottiswoode Street
• Arden Street
• Marchmont Road

Jim Grieve and Eddie McDowell don’t want to enforce this yet and ask us to be considerate instead. We may find, though, that we won’t have a choice if we’re not careful. I think a prohibition will certainly be worse for us.

In my opinion, the problem is down to us not yet having shared use bays. They are very likely coming soon and that should free up more spaces for us so we don’t have to park in S1 as often. But, my worry is that until that goes through all the legal hurdles, we will give people in S1 the mistaken impression that merging with us will be bad for them. Even if they only think that due to a weird temporary situation, it won’t help us.

So, remembering that zone 8 permits probably stand out a mile to S1ers, please try to park in emptier streets – even if that means walking a bit further. Hopefully it’ll only be for a few months. Once the tough streets in zone 8 are merged into S1 the permits will all look the same and with shared use, too, all stress will vanish. We need to protect our long term goals.

Let me know what you think about all this.