Illegal parking addressed on Bridge Street
Guardian News
Notts County Council is proposing to introduce a temporary traffic measure on Bridge Street to crackdown on illegal parking.
The council acted after traders and shoppers highlighted the traffic disruption in the pedestrianised zone on Worksop’s busiest shopping street.
The order will be in place for six months and could be made permanent. It could equally be revoked if the order is not working sufficiently.
Coun Richard Jackson, cabinet member for transport and highways, said: “This pilot traffic regulation order is being introduced to cut down on non-essential trips and in response to calls from traders and members of the public to preserve the pedestrianised area of Bridge Street as much as possible.”
“The pilot means that once the order has been introduced there will be a period of monitoring over the next six months to see how it works in practice and to see if it helps tackle the problem successfully.”
Traffic is currently prohibited from entering the street but exemptions exist which allow vehicles to enter the pedestrianised zone before 10am and after 3.30pm, with special access permit holders, including disabled permit holders, and maintenance and bullion vehicles allowed to enter at any time.
The pilot order, to begin in April, would not allow any vehicles on Bridge Street, except for loading between the hours of 4pm to 10am.
The proposal removes access for all blue badge holders and special access permit holders on all pedestrianised sections of Bridge Street and Bridge Place.
Bassetlaw Council is currently reviewing the number of designated bays in its car parks to ensure there is capacity to meet any growth in demand.
Blue badge holders will also still be able to park on single or double yellow lines for up to three hours, in neighbouring streets so long as there are no restrictions on loading or unloading at that particular location.
The council say the order also bans vehicles over 36’ feet long from entering Bridge Place and Bridge Street due to damage to pavements, road signs and other street furniture such as seating and lamp columns.
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pokoholic
Monday, February 20, 2012 at 04:55 PMI just wish that some of these people who make these stupid decisions had the misfortune of being disabled or a carer for some one who is disabled . I am 75 years of age and have a disabled daughter who is forty five and cannot walk the lenght of bridge streetand i definetely cannot push her up bridge st in a wheelchair as i suffer with C.O.P.D and get very easily short of breath so we will be unable to do any shopping in bridge from april. and i can guarantee that there will be a lot of other disabled users who are like us. at present we are restricted to three days a week as there is a market on the other days.It appears to me that Bassetlaw council are discriminating against disabled people which I believe is against the law and i shall be making investigations about it. If the street was policed corerctly then there would be no problems. I admit that there are too many cars that come just to go to the cash machines and at 1600 ish it is used as a cut through for a lot of people. there are NO R NO car parks adjacent to Bridge street bridge place that are handy for disabled people and the car park at marks and spencer has the parent toddler spaces nearer to the shops than the disabled spaces and the parents think that because they have a toddler they are entitled to use disabled spaces. All the attendants are interested in is making sure everyone has a ticket regardless of what the occupants are.My daughter uses the hairdressers RED but will now have to find some where else that is more accessible for her so the coucil is driving DISABLED people away from bridge st l place. pokoholic
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