Sleeper cabs to go?
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TAYSIDE Regional Council's road committee has urged a ban on sleeper cab overnight parking within official town parks where the practice is "a problem to the local community".
No extra parking space is needed in Dundee, it argues. Perth's Transportel could he asked to expand if there were a belief that Perth needed extra space.
Arbroath's council has asked the region to take urgent action to ban use of sleeper cab units at the Arbroath site and to insist that they go elsewhere "because of the serious social and environmental problems at the present site".
Other towns in the area are also moving against use of sleeper cab street parking.
The overall decision in Tayside is that proper lorry parks be constructed with full facilities "adjacent to the trunk road network" and that pending such development all sleeper cab parking should not be provided in town lorry parks unless properly organised and operated for that purpose.
• Aberdeen District Council is planning a ban on street overnight parking in all residential areas of the city, although sonic locations, mainly in industrial estates will be permitted.
Legislation is being prepared to effect curbs, to be completed in time to coincide with the opening of a new overnight lorry park at Altens.
• Central region has an official lorry park in York Square, Grangemouth, not marked and not publicised, although available officially between 5prn and 7.45arn.
Lack of information and signs is explained by the comment that "we don't want residents to be bothered by lorries coming in and out of the lorry park."