Just been on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire this morning talking about how we are working with the police to find a solution on this. News interest is that a similar problem may be affecting Milton next year as workers forced away from the science park area in Cambridge leave their cars in Milton and walk over the A14 bridge.
The residents of Milton will have to decide what they need to do if this becomes a problem, but our local discussions with the police have led to the proposal of a fund that villages pay into to provide Police Community Support Officer resources that focus on parking enforcement for a set amount of time. The advantage is that there is local agreement on where the problem is and where the targetting should be. It isnt just PCSOs on general patrol, it is a targeted response.
It isn't ideal, because we will have to pay, but people do recognise the police are being stretched and there are other priorities we want them to tackle. At a meeting between the police and the parish council and also local farmers to discuss parking problems generally, next steps on this issue were agreed.
The first action is to make sure the yellow lines put in by the county council in the streets near the rail station are all up to snuff and clearly delineated. This is to be fair to the commuters parking in the streets, but also because we don't want the PCSOs to issue a ticket which is then disputed and thrown out on appeal on the grounds that the line was too faded to be visible.
The underlying cause of all this is the Cambridge economy, and our connectivity to London because busier rail stations are powered in the main by people going to work. It would help if there was more connectivity in terms of public transport to the rail station, but commuters pretty much always want to drive to the station and catch the train.
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