Comments on: Bikers are getting angry at the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea

By: Morph

Morph — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:37:36 +0000

Get some ‘Surveyor’s Paint’ and spray out the word ‘PERMIT’.

Park your ‘bike there and take a photo with your bike’s registration mark visible and the illegible signing.

Challenge the PCN.

Simple.

By: Simon C

Simon C — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:54:14 +0000

Could it be that Kensington & Chelsea are awaiting the outcome of the various challenges to the Westminster scheme before (if WCC get away with it) either following suit or making the current residents’ bays into combined residents / pay-by-phone bays? Or is that too cynical a view?

By: Adrian Novodor

Adrian Novodor — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:55:33 +0000

Are these resident motorcycle parking bays legal? Surely there should be a sign on a pole stating that the motorcycle bays are for permit holders only. I thought the only places on the road that didn’t need signs were double yellow lines.

I bet Kensington & Chelsea have done very well from all the parking tickets they must have issued.

By: Emma

Emma — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:28:26 +0000

The Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea residents are obviously unhappy to pay to park their motorbikes and scooters (as the residents motorcycle parking bays are always empty) so the only solution to this problem is to scrap the residents motorcycle bays and just have the standard free motorcycle bays. If Kensington & Chelsea converted all the residents bays to normal free bays, they would have 2328 motorcycle spaces (by their calculations).

Come on RBKC, do the right thing!

By: Richard Hemsley

Richard Hemsley — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:57:22 +0000

Kensington and Chelsea should make all motorcycle bays free of charge again. It would be easy to implement, all they would need to do is change the paint on the motorcycle bays from ‘Motorcycle Permits Only’ to ‘Solo Motorcycles Only’ (K&C don’t even have signs in the bays like Westminster). They can leave the ground anchors in place.

I do think the ground anchors are a good idea (even if the majority of bikes don’t use them) because at least it gives bikers the choice to secure their bikes if they wish. I agree with the comment by Teresa though, the ground anchors are filthy, probably because they are in the gutter, but I think the council could clean them occasionally.

By: Moonlight

Moonlight — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:33:34 +0000

I don’t understand the logic of this council. Can’t they see that their resident bays are empty all the time and no one wants to use them? What a waste of kerb space, honestly!

By: Teresa

Teresa — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:30:54 +0000

I too live in Chelsea and find the security devices in the resident bays complete rubbish. They get dirty and wet and when you touch them they make your hands dirty too. Also, they force you to carry a chain, which I don’t like. I don’t want to pay to use this rubbish, so I park in visitor bays free of charge.

By: James in Chelsea

James in Chelsea — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:27:25 +0000

I am a resident in Kensington and Chelsea. I am one of the bikers who refuse to pay to park because the use of bikes should be encouraged as they relieve congestion. I park in visitor bays, sorry guys! I have written to the council many times and they keep telling me the same spin, which is that they will be looking into the matter. But how long more are we going to wait until they finally do something about it?

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:24:21 +0000

All this is very true. It is a real pain to find a space to park a motorcycle in Kensington & Chelsea, all this because the council wants to make money out of residents.