Badly parked cars cause chaos on Tulse Hill

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CHAOS: The number 415 broken down on Tulse Hill. Picture by Richard Quinlan

A number 415 bus became stuck between parked cars and bollards in Tulse Hill, causing traffic chaos earlier today.

Blog reader Richard Quinlan caught these snaps of the traffic at 12.30pm this afternoon, next to Jubilee Primary School.

He said the bus became stuck trying to manoeuver between badly parked cars and bollards.

Richard added: “The parking is causing chaos as it is not the first time buses have had trouble passing.

“It is bad with Brockwell Park, the estates and Jubilee School being on that road as the view for children is blocked plus vice versa for the drivers.

“Needless to say the passengers on the bus, myself included, weren’t best pleased.”

 

6 COMMENTS

  1. The CPZ (Controlled Parking Zone) that became operational during 2012 in Tulse Hill was brought in by the Council after much petitioning and campaigning by residents in those streets. Ours was along similiar lines, but far worse, to what we are currently seeing on Tulse Hill itself with vehicles left parked on the roadside.
    Our streets had become little more than car parks and a park and ride service into Brixton or up to Tulse Hill rail station. Hundreds of vehicles would pile into our streets on a daily basis, many would arrive as early as 5am and wake up residents with their radios blarring and doors/boots slamming shut. The cars would remain there all day, it was awful if the alarm should activate as the owner would be miles away at work. The cars would all leave by 11pm again causing disturbances as they drove away.
    The roads were chocked full on both sides, there would be many arguments and even fights since there were no passing places and drivers were reluctant to reverse back down the whole road to make way. Many times vehicles were left dumped in the road for months. The record being a large van for 8 months during 2011, imagine that outside your front window!
    There was never anywhere for residents to park, not only in their own road but in adjacent roads either. Forget arranging for the gas or electric services, there was never anywhere to park and residents had to protect spaces with refuse bins in these instances and they also faced abuse from drivers who thought it was their given right to leave their vehicles in out streets. Ironically many of these cars had permits from where their owners lived, I recall seeing, Harrow, Wandsworth and Ealing amongst some. They enjoyed the peace of a CPZ where they lived but thought we should not have one and it was alright to park and ride in our streets.
    Over 90% of residents in my road wanted the CPZ and were willing to pay for a permit, it is little wonder that was the case with the nightmare details I have detailed.

  2. One way of testing that theory is to find out where the people that are parking on Tulse Hill are from. Perhaps motorists could also ask themselves whether it is absolutely essential to journey by car (or even own one) given the vast expense?

  3. Rather than being the unrestricted parking on Tulse Hill causing the problem, I put it to the two previous posters that the problem is restricted parking on every street throughout central Brixton which has caused the problem. No doubt we shall soon see double yellow lines and a cctv van spying on all those caught foul of them.

    Stop trying to con us poor motorists out of every penny we have and sort out FREE adequate parking and then we wouldn’t be having this problem.

  4. As a local councillor who lives in the area, I can only echo the frustration of residents – and the bus drivers who have to engage in extrordinary driving manoeuvring to get past parked cars. These cars seem to be indifferent to the fact they are creating an obstruction. I know local councillors have raised this issue with Lambeth Transport and Val Shawcross of the London Assembly. But the reality is that the message is out that you can park for free up Tulse Hill!

  5. Residents of Tulse Hill Estate and Brockwell Gate are fed up of the dangerous parking on Tulse Hill road which appeared 12 months ago and has worsened rapidly in recent months. Buses are swerving around the parked vehicles on to the other side of the road in each direction, and even getting stuck which means an unnecessary backlog of traffic up and down the hill.

    The consequences of unrestricted parking on Tulse Hill puts primary school children, commuters, pedestrians and motorists at risk.

    I trust that our elected officials will ensure suitable parking restrictions on Tulse Hill before someone gets killed or seriously injured?

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