Kinloch Road Regeneration - Have your say!!!

[Ship called Dignity]

Forum is great for gathering views John but on your previous points, I'm out of it. You've been too long in politics when you give a reply like that!!

Och Davie, your taking the hump now,

Not at all John, but you never answered my original question and then tried to talk yourself out of a paper bag. I'm not in the same league!

[russanros]

russanros wrote:
The bit about parking at Aqualibrium is absurd - if you are going to do a sports activity or run from there it goes by definition that a short walk round the corner won't kill you

Kevin Mc wrote:
Exactly what I was thinking.

So long as there is parking a short walk around the corner. The current proposals for Kinloch Road significantly reduce opportunities for parking there. What I am saying is that, if you want people to walk around the town centre more, then opportunities for parking close to the town centre have to increase. The point about the AWP and/or the Aquilibrium is that people will always want to park as close to where they want to go as possible. Any reduction in available parking spaces is likely to reduce options for parking close to the town center, impacting on overall parking to the extent that shoppers will be even more attracted to shop at Tesco's as they will be able to park on the doorstep there. Parking for the AWP, and the Royal hotel will increase demand, further exacerbating the limited parking close to the Victoria hall and town center.

What about the Esplanade, the only time I have seen that anything like 'fully parked' is the music festival or mokrun days?
- thats only a short walk from the Aqualibrium and the rest of the town centre?

[John S]

Thats true, russanros but I think the further you go from Main St. / Longrow. the less attractive parking there becomes. The free parking spaces in the new Inveraray car park are hardly used at all as people would prefer to pay than walk the extra 100 yards. I have a feeling the same would be true here.

Not at all John, but you never answered my original question and then tried to talk yourself out of a paper bag. I'm not in the same league!

Sorry DP I thought i had answered your original point, just to be clear - There is no proposal out for consultation for a car park at bus terminus. There has been no consultation for a car park at the but terminus, there will be no car park at the bus terminus unless there has been a significant input from the pubic to the current proposals suggesting that would be a better option.

[Mr Plod]

I have'nt seen anyone paying to park in the small carpark in Inveraray yet. And you are right that that big carpark is not utilised. Car parks are an inefficient use of land unless the footprint is smaller ie multi-storey car parks. It would have made more sense to use that land as a caravan site for touring caravans and campervans. That would have brought more money into the local coffers. Now it's a big ugly tarmac monstrosity.