by MiniClubmanEstate » Tue Jul 21, 2009 6:45 pm
But don't forget the bother us private hire coach drivers have with parking.
Eco Option 1. Make parking available where ever it is safe, charge if council wishes, this allows a coach to stop and shut down its engine for a while.
Option 2 (Current). Prohibit parking virtually everywhere in the city centre, employ an army of traffic wardens to ensure that coaches cannot stop despite there being a safe location for parking which would not obstruct other road users and ensure that we have lots of empty coaches driving around in circles until all their tourists have been collected. This option causes congestion as there are 40ft coaches unnecessarily driving around the busy city centre inconveniencing everybody else by contributing to congestion and emissions. I think that my coach generates substantially more emissions when it is switched on and moving due to being unable to park compared to sitting safely parked with the engine switched off.
The above is just Edinburgh, that eco town is my idea of hell!.
Andrew: PCV, IAM Car
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