Keir Starmer new parking rules are slap in the | Tech News

Keir Starmerclaims to like driving – it is at all times been in his blood, so he says. His first car was a Morris Minor that value £125 and growing up “getting a car was the single most important thing” in his life. 

So you’d suppose he might need an iota of sympathy for drivers. Maybe we might get the odd coverage that advantages the UK’s car industry. No such luck.

And Labour’s newest brainwave reveals simply how indifferent our Prime Minisiter and his prime group are from the day-to-day lives of the average British household.

New rules will power councils to impose sweeping parking restrictions limiting the quantity of areas on new housing developments.

The intention, as ever, will probably be to scale back car use. Jump on a bus. Walk. Just do not you dare take into consideration driving.

As rule adjustments go, this has obtained to be one of the most ridiculous and concurrently devastating concepts for motorists throughout the nation.

Countless trendy homes on newly-built estates have small driveways appropriate just for one car. So what occurs when mum, dad and their two or three grown-up kids all have automobiles at the identical time? Because, guess what, in actual life many, many households need a number of automobiles. Then issue in areas for buddies and prolonged household, and it is a recipe for catastrophe.

Perhaps Stuck In Gear Keir needs us all to simply drive round always solely stopping to fill up with petrol. A novel option to increase the economic system.

Special events equivalent to household barbecues, England World Cup matches and even Christmas may now develop into prime income gathering alternatives for native councils.

Conservative MP Richard Holden defined the dangers completely when he stated: “Labour have ripped up the rulebook that protected families from parking misery and replaced it with a green light for councils to squeeze drivers.”

A spokesman for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government denied this and stated: “This claim is nonsense. We understand how important it is for motorists to have enough parking options, and they will continue to do so under the changes.”

Motorists are unlikely to depart their automobiles hanging off kerbs if a free car park is simply a couple of minutes’ stroll away, leaving paths clear for everybody to take pleasure in. Stuff these bays full of electric car charging ports, and it may even encourage motorists to make the transition to EVs themselves earlier than being pushed.