Coun Tom Glossop still isn't convinced about taking no action to deter the parking of cars on Bigby Road, near the junction with St Helen's Road.
Tom, a member of Brigg Town Council, has raised this issue several times - but the folk in authority who control such things have now suggested the parking of cars in this spot actually helps slow down the flow of traffic!
Tom ought to know what he's talking about - he lives in St Helen's Road and so often uses this junction to try to access the often busy A1084.
There are no yellow lines on this stretch of road, not far from the Monument.
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When has the yellow line situation changed, Nige?
I used to live at Thornsett - second house past St Helen's Road going towards Bigby High Street from '82 to '96.
The council put down double yellow lines in about 1985, from the Monument to Inglenook - the house next door and the one adjacent to St Helen/Bigby Road junction.
It became quite a shock for local residents, particularly for the lady from Inglenook....she parked her car, an old Morris Traveller outside my house, Thornsett, where the lines finished...but she got a parking ticket....it was claimed that her car bumper was over-hanging the yellow lines and therefore was infringing the 'no parking' restriction.
I don't really want to get into the debate about the yellow lines...albeit to say that traffic coming from the Monument was generally accelerating, thus causing some danger to cars turning left into, or emerging from St Helen's....as it was emerging/entering my drive.
If the yellow lines have been removed...when?
It seems that the 'yellow line' issue refers to the opposite side of the road ...running adjacent to the extant medical/dental centre..(the original 'Riverside' sugery and the school dentist)
Indeed, this raises another issue..are there plans to develop this site? There is a decaying car park with crumbling boundary walls.
I to would like to know when the old medical centre is to be developed. Living opposite at Rockhurst, next to where Ken H lived, we can see daily deterioration of the building as well as the car park. It is attracting the wrong elements for drinking, anti social behaviour, and damage to both the property and the council maintained flower bed nearby.
As for the speeding vehicles on Bigby Road,this has got worse with the increased traffic to the garden Centre. I like many others spend much time awaiting the chance to get out onto the road.
This is not helped by parked vehicles stopping visability. I would propose double yellow lines from Monument to the level crossing on both sides and some traffic calming measures to slow down the speeders.
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