New parking restrictions

[Nigello]

Barriers and perforated kerbs (about 2? into the road) have been put into place on Dunstan?s Road. Similar restrictions are now on Upland Road, parallel to Dunstan?s more-or-less.

[Rockets]

Is this anticipating the closure of Goodrich outside the school? One of the patterns is that when the council closures a road it ensures it removes a significant number of parking spaces at the same time - thus, no doubt, increasing their ability to lobby for CPZs further down the line!

[Nigello]

They will never put a CPZ there. There?s no need because people don?t park there to be near a station. PR is at least a 25? walk away, ED and HOP about 20, the latter uphill part of the way and none reached speedily and easily by bus from this actual location.

School traffic is heavy though many pupils do walk and a few cycle.

[Roky Erickson]

> School traffic is heavy though many pupils do walk

> and a few cycle.

This is why a permanent closure of that small section of Goodrich makes no sense. It will simply divert and concentrate the 'heavy traffic' which you mention onto Upland and Dunstan's, which is where the main gates to the school actually are. And the streets which most children use to get to school.

I don't understand why you would want to direct more cars up and down the very same roads on which you are trying to encourage more children to 'actively travel'. The scheme makes no sense.