LORRY PARKING METERS DEBUT
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ON Monday, the first parking meters intended exclusively for the use of goods vehicles came into use in the City of London. There are 28 of them and they lie in the new No. 4 parking meter zone which extends the control zones to the River Thames and brings the whole of the City of London within parking meter schemes.
The lorry bays are from 25 ft. to 40 ft. long and are controlled by two-hour meters; the charge varies from 6d. for half-an-hour to 2s. for two hours. Upper Thames Street has 20 meters, the adjoining Queenhithe has 3, while Coopers Row and Vine Street (near Trinity Square and Tower Hill) have 1 and 4 respectively. These are all streets in which wharf-serving traffic is heavy.
This No. 4 zone is bounded by the Thames on the south side, by Fleet Street, Ludgate Hill, Cheapside, Fenchurch Street and part of Aldgate High Street on the north, and runs from west of Blackfriars Bridge to the Minories and Mansell Street in the east. Within this zone parking is prohibited except at meters, while loading, unloading and waiting are restricted. The control applies from 8.30 a.m. to 6.30 p.m. Monday to Friday and to 1.30 p.m. on Saturday; there is no control on Sundays. To cater for the needs of Billingsgate Market and the nearby wharves, control does not begin until 11 a.m. in the area east of London Bridge and between Eastcheap, Great Tower Street and the river.
The lorry bays are for commercial vehicles weighing 3 tons or more unladen. They may be used by vehicles drawing trailers where these can be parked within the marked bays.
And in Stepney, Too A second new parking meter zone came into force in Central London on Monday, this one being in the Stepney area and having the same control times as the No. 4 zone. It has no lorry meters, but the Spitalfields Market area is excluded from the scheme, to cater for commercial traffic.
This Stepney zone extends north from the Thames and adjoins the No. 4 scheme on the west, but it runs as far north as Sclater Street and its eastern edge follows the line of Brick Lane, Osborn Street, Leman Street and Thomas More Street.
The excluded Spitalfields area, within which the meter-zone restrictions do not apply. is bounded by Folgate Street. the west side of Commercial Street, Artillery Lane, Whites Row and a line drawn just to the east of Norton Folgate.