New Park and Ride for Inverkeithing Residents wishing to park their cars........
4 Feb 2010
Having just come back from the public exhibition on parking at the Civic Centre, if you are a resident or owner of a business in Inverkeithing it is well worth a visit.
Not only are the proposals aimed at the commuter coming into the town, but they have been quite obviously mis thought and give no consideration to the residents of the town and concentrate on the incoming daily deluge of cars from the new eastern expansion and the surrounding areas.
From Town Hall St to the South end of the town, forget living and working in the High St and the immediate streets. The closest you can park your car is Roman rd, there are time limits on all the High St spaces and NO allowances for residents, park at your peril - £30 if you go over your time.
The council plans do not take into consideration that by allowing parking permits in the vicinity of the Railway station is going to push commuter traffic towards the town centre and into the streets around it.
The solution to this from a mere mortal............build a park and ride North of Inverkeithing and have an effective feeder bus system in for commuters that want to use the railway or catch a bus, that would perhaps upset those in the Eastern expansion but Inverkeithing was never built to cope with the expansion and subsequent cars that it has brought or are the residents going to end up parking in Rosyth and using public transport to get home.....I think not!!!!!
20 Feb 2010 | 12:20:44
john thompson says
Well said Andy Holland
The proposals are the usual paper exercise issued from Glenrothes, in my 20+ years in Inverkeithing I have never known a Fife Council improvement to actually improve anything at the sharp end.
The proposals do absolutely nothing for the shops and businesses in town and do not target the real issue which is influx of commuters for whom suitable park and ride facilities should be built.
We will be told there is no money to build such facilities, perhaps the council should think of this before wasting money on TV adverts.
The other problem with the proposals is that it will simply move the problem one or two blocks from the High Street, so if you live in Cleveland Drive, or Roods Road, or Stephens Drive, or Scotmill Way - Tough! you will be landed with the commuter overspill.
I understand another traffic warden is to be funded to police the new regulations, so there is funding available for staffing, but not for the real solution to the problem another park and ride facility.