Residents block London street to stop controversial £650,000 plan to replace parking spaces with benches

by weregonnamakit

18 comments

  1. If there’s one thing Streatham high street needs it’s more people driving there

  4. Blocking the road in protest? Get ’em arrested. Just Stop Oil wannabes.

  5. Sounds like the council aren’t listening to the local residents needs and wants, yet most so far commenting are on the side of the council. Reddit is an odd place.

  7. Why on Earth would anyone want to sit on a bench in the street when there’s a zillion lovely parks in London? Utter twattery

  8. Reddit will not support parking spaces. I don’t even need to look at the comment section to know that

    Lol

  11. Can we bring in some sort of publically funded clubs for pensioners so they’ve got something to do other than blocking any change people want to make in their local environment? Yes it would cost money but it’s got to be cheaper than dealing with all this bullshit and the whole planning system being gummed up by people who’ve got nothing better to do than lodge objections.

  12. I’m generally in favour of trying to encourage less driving in London since congestion isn’t good for anyone, but Labour councils have a habit of just making pretty ideological/ stupid decisions when it comes to cars. Near me in Isleworth they’ve created a cycle lane that runs down a major road (which also has a hospital on it with traffic needing to come and go) and nobody ever cycles down it. I jog along there and rarely see a cyclist. There is a lot of traffic though. It’s not really improved anything, just made life harder for drivers almost for the sake of it. Lots of people, especially born and raised Londoners, drive. People with families generally need a car more. It feels like councillors think everyone in London is a 20 something professional sometimes… Not everyone’s life in London is about commuting in and out of Central etc… There’s plenty of people that rely on a car to get around their suburb. 

  13. Let me get this straight. They’re protesting the removal of parking spaces by… blocking the street and making it pedestrianised? Bet it’s lovely there right now. Keep them protesting.

    The use of chairs to protest a bench being added is wonderful.

    (Do agree that £650k for some benches is about £649k too much.)

  14. Oh no, people won’t be able to store their private property on the public road.

  16. Only Redditors could defend a council spending 650bags on some benches purely because merr cars are the devil and kill everyone

  18. £650,000 wow…when will that precise council blame others for going bankrupt

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