NOT IN RESIDENT PARKING BAYS!
This 'consultation' is doing the rounds. Like most, they are just a sop to residents. The results will be manipulated....
What is unclear is whether residents will lose spaces.
If that is the intention Hornet readers should vociferously object.
Bays for bikes need to be created from Pay and Display spaces.
No mention is made whether RBK&C will generate revenue from e-bike rental firms. Most are foreign owned and loaded.
They need to be made to pay.
Dear Residents’ Association
New Rental e-Bike Parking Bay Proposals
Rental e-bikes have become a regular sight on borough streets and can be a convenient alternative to public transport or driving. The number of trips made by rental e-bikes has increased greatly in Kensington and Chelsea over the last few years. We recognise that parking of rental e-bikes on narrow footways can cause a nuisance to residents, particularly where the footway is obstructed for those using wheelchairs or buggies. In September 2023, we implemented a number of designated e-bike parking bays to help prevent bikes left inconsiderately.
The Council is now proposing to create additional dedicated parking bays for use by e-bike hire operators and their customers, in existing parking bays across the borough. The new bays aim to help fill gaps in our current e-bike parking network, and to help address the problem of overspilling in popular existing rental e-bike bays. We are not proposing to permit more e-bikes to be deployed in the borough, rather this will allow us to bring more control to where bikes are parked.
For more detailed information on the proposed locations, and to respond to the consultation, please visit:
https://consult.rbkc.gov.uk/
The consultation closes on 17 April 2024.
Kind Regards
Sustainable Travel Team
I hope the Council are not taking away residents parking? Can this be clarified and are local councillors engaging with their local communities so that they can have some local meetings to discuss these plans to that we can all avoid the menace of these bikes littering the pavements. How are the local councillors working with their residents?
ReplyDeleteGreat use of space to park 20 bikes as opposed to one car. I'm in favour.
ReplyDeleteI doubt you have a car but in any case, you miss the point. Fine to use a pay bay but NOT resident spaces.
ReplyDeleteYou are correct. I used to have a BIG car, and I loved it. But I gave it up several years ago and can honestly say I have not missed it at all. I have joined the 66% of people in my ward who do not have a vehicle. For us, conveniently available e-bikes are a boon. I do not believe that the majority of road space should be given over to the minority 33% who still insist on owning private cars and parking them on public land. Our land could and should be better used for the benefit of more people – including bike parking, tree planting, seating, greening, and play spaces for children.
DeleteDon't be so silly. Many residents also have homes in the country or have children. Ebikes may be useful but they should not deprive residents of parking. Use Pay bays to stash bikes.That penalises people who descend on C. London instead of using public transport. Now I must get on. Don't have time to waste educating the ignorant
DeleteThis reply says so much about you: those who disagree with you must be "silly" and "ignorant". Other people don't visit Central London, they "descend". Residents with homes in the country must not be "deprived" of parking at the expense of the majority, it is their god-given right! And, of course, you are for too busy and important to spend time defending this entitled nonsense, though naturally you find time to spout it.
DeleteAnother recent RBKC brainwave is to allow businesses to use residents' parking spaces. Before Christmas, the Blenheim Cres. bookshop was able to erect a stall outside its premises, to promote a new book by giving away free coffees. In a street of cafes with £100k+ a year overheads, free cups of coffee were popular. Doubtless by coincidence, a week later, the nearby Bavette brasserie closed for good! Genius!
DeleteNow you're really clutching at straws. Correlation is not causation. A hypothesis that one business giving away free cups of coffee for one day drove another business to bankruptcy seems rather far-fetched. The fact that they did it on the street seems completely irrelevant. Might it not make sense to speculate that greedy landlords charging sky-high rents, Brexit affecting cost of goods and visitor numbers, increased energy prices, and extortionate business rates might have had a greater part to play in the sad demise of this café?
DeleteIt's 11.17's turn to miss the point. Of course a
Deletebusiness doesn't close due to a single day of "free" competition. However, one can imagine the feelings of the managers of nearby competing businesses when watching their potential customers lining up for a "freebee" coffee.
A shop in Kensington Park Road was given a resident parking place last summer, for promotions. This was necessary because the recent rash of dining tables & chairs around it, rendered the shop invisible.
Such consequences are foreseeable.
Another 'freebee' for cyclists? who pays for these bays if residents dont?
ReplyDeleteResidents do pay for them, through our Council Tax. It's just that most of us Council-Tax paying residents in RBKC don't have a car.
DeleteThe cynicism of this FTHN website should be clear for all to see: “This 'consultation' … like most, they are just a sop to residents. The results will be manipulated....”
ReplyDelete16.58. The signs of cynicism are things like low or no trust, blame, criticism, divisiveness, either-or thinking, pessimism, negativity, sarcasm … like shown on this FTHN.
DeleteJamie & Maren Showkeir postulated: “Cynicism is an unproductive reaction to disappointment. It springs from the helplessness people feel when they are disappointed by others and allow themselves to become detached observers rather than active participants.”
DeleteExactly...like the Council's constant 'consultations' conning residents that their views are taken into account...vide planning we are 'consulted; then ignored. As the awful Weale said, 'We hear but we don't listen'
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