Council should comesee carchaos
Dear Editor
The pathetic excuses for the parking chaos within the area surrounding Stirling University is wholly unacceptable (Observer, March 6, 2019).
Until recently, there was no such problem.
The university has a vast campus, in which parking space can be provided for their students and staff.
That assumes that the ‘poor’ students need cars at all, and somewhere to park them.
Any councillor or university official that thinks there is not a problem should come down to earth and see the chaos for themselves. I consider it positively dangerous.
Hillfoots Road and Logie Road are busy main routes with cars, buses and lorries all day long.
I am also told (vehicles left by people attending the university site) are clogging up areas of Bridge of Allan. Everyone is complaining, including the bus companies who have to manoeuvre round the parked vehicles.
Not only that but they are also using up the parking spaces at the Wallace Monument. I have witnessed the students parking there. Where are the tourist visitors (a valuable source of revenue for Stirling) supposed to park, or should the National Monument be closed for good? Stirling Council were told to purchase the old Sword Hotel as a visitor centre when it was on the market, as any sensible body would have done, but they refused – another bad mistake they made.
Why do students need cars anyway? Nobody had one when I was a student, and Oxford University successfully bans them altogether, as I know from personal experience, having worked there.
If the university refuses to use its own land, how about them buying Airthrey Kerse as a car park?
A Maxwell-Irving By email