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Author Topic: Twyford parking rules could change as Elizabeth Line route opens  (Read 4752 times)
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« on: November 24, 2022, 10:24:58 »

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"Changes to parking restrictions on various roads in Twyford could be brought in. The proposal comes after two-thirds of people living in the area reported problems on their streets... The three top issues named were commuter parking, which equalled nearly a quarter of the concerns raised (24 per cent) and is only set to get worse now Elizabeth Line trains run directly into central London, followed by inconsiderate parking (17 per cent) and parking too close to junctions (14 per cent)."

Hmm. I wonder if the problem has got worse compared with pre-Pandemic? Despite all the much-publicised expectations about Crossrail, is it really encouraging Twyfordians to venture into Central London?
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« Reply #1 on: November 24, 2022, 10:54:32 »

Car parks in general at stations seem to be a lot busier lately.  Twyford could do with a multi deck car park as it always looks full. 

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« Reply #2 on: November 24, 2022, 11:39:17 »

Hmm. I wonder if the problem has got worse compared with pre-Pandemic? Despite all the much-publicised expectations about Crossrail, is it really encouraging Twyfordians to venture into Central London?

I would suspect that Twyfordians are not the issue with people parking in the street in Twyford.

There are a lot of people who live a car-based life living to the west of London in communities with little or very limited rail service who never use their local trains, but on occasions visit London and would never dream of taking their car all the way in.   

There have been a number of park-and-ride favourite in the past - ranging from Osterley to Bedwyn but local stations on the Reading to Paddington route wouldn't have made a "top ten" list.   Price of parking, frequency of service, cost of tickets,ease of access of the trunk road network, and directness of service into central London are all factors.

Twyford now has (I think) a sevice every 15 minutes or so DIRECT to the West End (Bond Street and Tottenham Court Road) and the City (Farringdon and Liverpool Street) as well as further east.   Very attractive; the whole yucky business of standing around in Paddington waiting for the next service on a night likeliest night is gone.   So I suspect the uptake at these stations has been not a consequence of covid in any way, but rather the sponge effect of the Elizabeth line doing - err - exactly what was intended!
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« Reply #3 on: November 24, 2022, 13:27:08 »

There have been problems with parking near Twyford station since at least the 1980s.  Many of the streets near the station are filled with terraced houses with no off street parking.  Some of them are only wide enough if cars are parked half on the pavement.   The prices of the houses rocketed as services to London improved before the turn of the century but many kept their cars even though they left them outside their homes all day while catching the train.

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« Reply #4 on: April 28, 2023, 13:25:24 »

Its not a new problem. Since I've lived there there's been numerous consultations and a gradual push outwards of the restrictions.

When I first moved there the restrictions were a couple of streets away and when I left last year they were one street away with the suggestion that they would be extended again. I was about 15 mins walk from the station. Most of my neighbours didn't want restrictions as it causes problems for them and visitors but equally it gets annoying having someone park across your drive. The most popular suggestion seemed to be no parking at set times as permits just get messy.

All feels a bit academic as there was only parking enforcement on certain days and everyone seemed to know which ones it was Smiley
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« Reply #5 on: April 28, 2023, 15:03:49 »

No parking between say 12 & 1 usually achieves it
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« Reply #6 on: April 28, 2023, 18:28:42 »

They are comparable parking restrictions close to Tilehurst Station that were gradually extended as motorists became more and more willing to walk further from their cars to save parking charges.  In the 1990s cars were parked either side of Carlisle Road and on Oxford Road itself. One of my neighbours, then in his early 30s, couldn't be bothered to walk the nine minutes down to the station, parked his car on the road and got it shunted by a vehicle pursued by the police. Houseowners painted their own yellow lines,which the Council quickly removed.

Parking in Carlisle Road is now banned until 1500 on weekdays and there are varying one-hour restrictions in the middle of the day in Oak Tree Road, where commuter parking was proving a real nuisance.

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« Reply #7 on: May 07, 2023, 09:25:44 »

No parking between say 12 & 1 usually achieves it

Also at Didcot.

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« Reply #8 on: May 08, 2023, 20:42:48 »

Similar 1 hour restrictions in Goring (for Goring and Streatley), although curiously, they're set for the morning one side of the station and afternoon in roads the other side.

Given the extremely unlikely visit by a traffic warden, this means that there's a 50% chance of not getting a ticket, unless they visit twice in the day or waste several hours admiring the River Thames, or watching passing trains.
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« Reply #9 on: May 09, 2023, 08:37:06 »

I can't recall the last time I saw a traffic warden. Probably in London, before Lockdown. Have they ditched their traditional uniforms with peaked hat for something more 21st century and less conspicuous?  Though now and then the local news websites do publish a league table of Reading roads where tickets have been issued.
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