SHORTAGE OF PARKING IN THE CITY - The petition "Green Light" a hit! By Christine
Zaugg, January 25, 2007
Here, a control to the rue du Rhone. The lack of space sometimes requires motorists to park a few minutes out of boxes ... (Photo Aldag)
Here, a control to the rue du Rhone. The lack of space sometimes requires motorists to park a few minutes out of boxes ... (Photo Aldag)
Launched last November, the petition are concerned about the removal of parking spaces in downtown, is a real hit with residents and traders.
The petition launched by the Green Light Association last November to protest and challenge the removal of 2,500 parking spaces in town for seven years, made a big hit! "There are already several thousand signatures collected," says Olivier Ballisa, spokesman for the Green Light.
Moratorium
The text states that "2469 parking spaces were eliminated in downtown since 1990 including 1132 since 2000. And more than 500 new seats should be sacrificed shortly. Green Light calls for a moratorium and a return of seats removed since 1990.
Tort merchants
Both people that merchants abound in the direction of Green Light: they believe that these lost parking spaces are enormous damage to traders, therefore also to the economy. "Whenever there is a construction site, whether for the tram or construction zones 20 or 30 km / h or during the construction of roundabouts, the state we systematically remove spaces! Olivier Ballisa indignant. The problem is that today the middle class moved to the periphery and does not come any more in town. The center is always more deserted, the signs disappear. "Keen interest
Olivier Ballisa, the plan Parking is nonexistent, "the master plan is amended to TPG Goodwill for anti-car. The road network is counted as "butter" since one considers that the TPG network. Yet we forget that it is not yet respected as regards service to the city and the suburbs. "
The petition will be filed in mid-February to the Chancellery.
pgeuvent petition forms available from: 022'715'32'22; www.tcsge.ch , www.gte.ch .
Source: Article GHI
