Well the photos are back, thanks to JD, still having problems with the comments code though. If you get a chance can you try and post a comment, let me know if you are unable to or if you get some wierd looking code afterwards…

Other than that things are pretty busy around here. I am working on a project for our neighbourhood which is taking up quite a bit of time. Our city council has proposed a resident parking scheme to “assist” us with our parking problems. What’s happening is that because we are so close to the city centre, and have free street parking, most of the commuters to Glasgow choose to use our streets as one big parking lot. Unfortunately, as is want to happen, the council have taken our concern, twisted it into a money making exercise for themselves and presented a scheme that will cost us plenty but will not really do much to relieve the problem. Me in my infinite wisdom, decided to get involved. I couldn’t just write my own objection letter to the council….nope, I wrote a couple of letters expressing various views and distributed them through the neighbourhood email system and am organising a print run and mail delivery run this weekend. Like we don’t have enough to do!

Tough huh!

The problem is that it’s just such a shame. That, and the fact that they’ve dangled a carrot in front of us, giving us a certain period in which to respond to the scheme, and of all the residents in the area, I found out today that only a tiny % have actually taken the opportunity to voice their opinions. What would you do? The council want to put in metered parking from 8am to 10pm, 7 DAYS A WEEK! Can you believe their nerve? The place is empty before 9am and after 5pm and all weekend… so the only money they’ll be getting outside business hours is that of the residents!

It annoys me no end.

So that’s what I’m doing this weekend. Delivering objection letters to local residents that they can sign and forward, or use to draft their own. It’s almost as stressful as work.

Hope you have a stressfree, sunny weekend. And, if you live in any of the 9 areas affected in Glasgow, and need a pre-drafted objection letter covering all the issues, please get in contact with me. I have a few spares!