Parking
Sir,—Mr Surtees, the City Council engineer, told a meeting of the Salesmen’s Club that there were 13,000 parking places in the city; by 1980 it was hoped to have 20,000 spaces. Congestion is caused by lack of street names and because the by-law on the provision of house numbers is not enforced, entailing slow driving and U turns. Much more congestion is caused by cruising in search of parking. Even in the traffic of 1956 a farmer friend drove his family here for a Friday shopping session: after perambulating round and round he did not even stop the car but drove straight back home to Oxford. If there are only another 7000 parking spaces in 1980 either city retailers will have to move, or traffic will move at a slow procession.—Yours, etc., SETH NEWELL. August 29, 1968.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31772, 31 August 1968, Page 12
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