Commuters lose 100 car spaces
Wednesday 14th January 2009, 2:30PM GMT.
Waiting at what will – from the end of next week – be a bus stop are, from the left, Hannah Beacom, Brooke de Laune and Isabel and Sam de Menezes. (Picture by Adrian Miller, 0701751)
COMMUTER chaos is predicted to come to St Peter Port at the end of the month.
The bus terminus will move to the Crown Pier for two weeks while South Esplanade is resurfaced.
One hundred parking spaces will be suspended from Saturday 24 January.
Alternative short-term parking will be available further along South Esplanade, with 100 10-hour spaces near Havelet Bay becoming two-hour for the duration of the work.
Island Coachways MD Hannah Beacom said the company, in collaboration with the Environment Department, had considered many options to limit the impact of the temporary move.
‘I would like to assure our passengers that we will provide clear signage and a sheltered waiting area and our close proximity to the permanent terminus means that we shall be running our services to timetable,’ she said.
The southbound carriageway and footpath in front of the bus terminus at South Esplanade is to be resurfaced. Buses will not be able to access the terminus because southbound traffic will be diverted via Fountain Street and Le Val des Terres.
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Why are short term spaces considered so important whilst no provisions are made for lost long term spaces? At this time of year there are plenty of short term spaces. No doubt the States will be raking in a nice amount of extra fines from commuters who have to use the short term spaces!
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‘Course, the commuters could take the bus…..
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It’s always the commuters that have to bear the brunt of lost spaces. I have seen in the past temporary short term parking in normally long term areas almost entirely empty during the day.
We make so much of the importance of our finance industry and our shops but care little for its workers who have to scrabble around for spaces or make other arrangements. I wonder how much time and hence money is lost through this?
Hannah Beacom talks about “jumping on the bus instead” but this doesn’t work, for instance, if you have to go somewhere straight after work that doesn’t fit with bus routes and times. I do use buses when I can, and enjoy the relaxing experience, but it is not always convenient and the service is not very good where I live in the mornings.
What about a temporary park & ride at the top of the Val des Terres? Charge 50p a time and the States would make some money. Might buy a new bus!
The authorities should take a mature and sensible approach to this, not just pick on one group of road users. If this is a subversive attempt to get people out of their cars it won’t work.
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The bus isn’t always the best option, especially in the cold. You’re either sat at a bus stop waiting for it to arrive, or you’re in town way too early for and are left standing in the cold again! The 10hour spaces being taken away is going to cause a lot more congestion and the limited 10hour spaces available now will be taken up even quicker than usual, making finding a space (even early) about as easily as 10 hour parking around 9:30!!!!!
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Here come the fines in the UK they have finally admitted it is an important source of revenue.
Maybe I should start a firm of Bailiffs/Wheelclampers in readiness.
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Diddums! what a shame for the poor lambs who ‘commute’. Good Heavens – an extra 5 minutes walk perhaps? Or, God forbid, a ride on the bus for 2 whole weeks?? Or the shame of having to ‘get a lift with a friend’!!! I hardly know how the bank workers in their big expensive cars will manage.
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Some car parking spaces are going to have to be lost – I suppose the thinking is that the shop owners would rather make life easy for the customers, who come into town to spend money, rather than than easy for the workers, who just take it away :).
If you work in town and there are going to be fewer long term spaces you’ll still find a way to get into work.
If you are a shopper and there are going to be fewer short term spaces in town you could and probably would go elsewhere.
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Dear oh dear, parking spaces, get a bus or better still walk, my god the place is no bigger than a postage stamp.If you aint moaning about parking its petrol, lets face it there isn’t anywhere to go then it dont cost anything. Dont make mountains out of mole hills.All in all together the grockles and the guerns have absolutely ruined a very pretty island with all the cars and parking does not require. A couple of parking spaces, reading the article it sounds like the end of the world GROW UP GUERNSEY
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bridge and paddy, i whole heartedly support buses but you can never get one when you want one as Valdubon says.
Hanging around in cold and wet and years ago when i relied on buses to commute i was let down more often than i got to work on time!! either no bus appeared or it refused to stop.
Yes we do live on small island paddy but if you live in castel st martins or further afield your looking at a 3 – 7 mile walk to work and possibly back if you have commitments after work and buses have stopped by then to your neck of the woods. that’s an alarm call of 4am!! ( depending on where you live, breakfast and the 3-7 mile walk)!!!!
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