25 July, 2010

Parking cars in Angers is a problem... for pedestrians too!


To park his car in town, even in times of summer vacations for inhabitants, is not easy. And even if you pay the fee, as soon as you run over the planned time, even just slightly, you have to pay the fine (The fee is for the city, the fine is for the state), whatever are the disadvantages linked to the trolley workings : parking ticket machine out of order, delimitations of parking spaces deleted due to works, notices of prohibition of parking displaced or invisible, and so. Angers inner city is becoming inpracticable.

In others areas of the town, non affected by the trolley works or other public workings, parking is also a problem... for pedestrians! The cars are parked on the pavements. If a very temporary parking on the pavements, especially for emergency cases, can be tolerated, that becomes quicky unacceptable especially if the vehicle belongs to a company and occupies regularly all the pavement a weekend long.

Why does the city's traffic wardens don't record the offenses? If that is not a loss of revenues for the city, it is nevertheless a renunciation to promote ecological movings like the pedestrian traffic face to polluting transfers and a form of tolerance face to bad-mannered behaviour regarding the disabled citizens, or simply the mothers driving a baby carriage... while parking lots are available nearby and free.

(Pictures credits http://angers.fubicy.org/)

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