At the Traffic Management Advisory Panel (TMAP) yesterday, the highly unpopular proposals for Lydford road were dropped.
The original plan was to introduce a ‘No Waiting At Any Time’ restriction for the whole length of Lydford Road on both sides. This proved highly controversial to all the residents who called me and the council received 63 objections to the scheme. At the meeting I was able to air the concerns presented to me by residents. So based on the level of objection from residents and the your Lib Dem ward councillors - this scheme will be now be dropped and will not be carried out.
All the recent parking schemes in the greater area have been working
around the edges of the parking problems and not tackled the issues
head on. So I also asked for a full review of parking in the area
between and including Upper Redlands road, down Alexandra road, across
Erleigh road and back up Eastern Avenue. A similar review had recently
been conducted in Newtown. Panel members agreed that this would be a
useful course of action and we, as your councillors, will be consulted
in the future on which area to look at.
I strongly believe, this review should also include representatives
from the Hospital, University and Alexandra road Mosque - so as all the
major pressures on parking can be full investigated. I also believe
this review must also look into installing car club places at strategic
positions. This could be popular with the student population and help
convince them not to bring a car to Reading, when they live out in our
ward - especially since the University's best efforts are clearly
failing to address this issue.
I look forward to seeing this review materialise and seeing what options are available to improve the state of our congested streets.
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