Oven parks success
Page 18
Page 19
If you've noticed an error in this article please click here to report it so we can fix it.
GLASGOW'S policies cri ing commercial vehicles ing overnight would appe be working, as there has no complaint from hat concerns to their orgal tions about the scheme.
It involves the design of a large number of streE industrial and comme areas of the city w overnight parking is per ed, and in fact obligatory.
Police have been enfoi the new regulations graci accepting that it will take for drivers to become fan with the regulations locations.
There has been no plaint by police to the t' port organisations regar the working of the schem, m individual companies, ing the overall impression ,t the plan will settle down 11.
[ilasgow's initiative is seen many as the proper and isfactory solution to the ■ blem of overnight parking. is hoped in transport :,.les that other cities will )57 the Glasgow system and roduce acceptable and per:ted parking streets.
n Aberdeen, the Grampian gion is still discussing utions to its problems of ?..rnight parking with an imated cost of El_ million for sark suitable for 150 vehic 3efore such a project would even considered subsidy or int arrangements would be required by the developers involved.
Plans are underway meantime to designate streets in commercial sections of Aberdeen as one approach. But the Grampian view is that a national system of lorry parks and obligatory use of legislation are required to meet the problem.
These powers should be operated through the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities as the coordinating body.
In the case of the Glasgow scheme, police reaction is that the programme is being monitored continuously and that early results of the scheme would suggest that it is promising.