BazilFawlty
Most people resent paying to shop, so offering some incentive to shop local seems to make sense to me. That is the reason. (!!!!!!!!!!)
Many parking meters (eg. outside Exeter Railway station) can do a free 1/2 hour , or whatever, ticket. Though free on street would be preferable leaving carparks for longer stay. Trouble is that is County Council rarther than TDC and they care even less.
This is the problem with plan A. It will alter the traffic flow all over the town. Traffic returning from Exeter wo'nt want to travel around the bottom of Dawlish -2 pedestrian crossings, 2 sets of traffic lights, traffic backing up from the junction to turn right to join the Teignmouth flow just to get to go up the Brunswick to get to the back of Dawlish. Drivers will cut up Elm Grove road and ...
'Wondering' and 'Smokey' might walk into town, but there is a constant stream of cars coming into Dawlish and passing down the Strand. There are 50 odd spaces in constant rotation - at least 2 cars per hour for ,say, 6 hours. So maybe 600 visits per day? Are you saying ALL of these people EVERY time they come to town will pay at the Barton carpark, and walk all the way up and down the Strand. Of ...
Good for you, thats all any of us can do - support your local shops and boycott the multi nationals
zero tolerance on littering and fines; works a treat. More bins and more unemployed sweeping the streets.
Loss of 100 odd car parking spaces on Strand is the prolem if you close it off. We're short of parking already. Yes, build a LARGE multi story on railway carpark (get Sainsbury to pay. Where would loading bays go for the constant deliveries that occur every day? -Make pavement 3x as wide -Parking on lawn side only+ at an angle -Get rid of one set of traffic lights - at bu stop -Make parking on ...
Isn't this thread about parking in Dawlish on carnival day? Or is it all about agreeing with DM,and no one else is able to have a point of view? Point is , parking on Strand is limited to 1 hour, so no one needs to be moved on until 4pm. So shopping could continue as usual as has been the case in previous years.
