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Monday, 24 October 2011

yellow lines, commuters, and car park prices at whittlesford station

I've had fed-up emails from fed-up people, both residents and commuters, saying that if only the outrageous cost of parking in the Whittlesford station car park could be reduced, commuters would not park on the corners of the Moraine and Knights Orchard, making the places easier for residents to get out of without being run over.

I'm not so sure, in that if Whittlesford was cheap to park at, more people would catch the train and potentially those empty spaces along Station Road would be taken up by other commuters wanting to save even the reduced price of a ticket. I think it is the economic law of demand.

So the answer is to get the county highways to agree to put yellow lines on the corners of these roads - as there are on Station Road itself. We are trying to fix a meeting with highways at the moment, and Tim Stone, our county councillor, is on the case.

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