Coun Ramesh Patel has admitted there is “no easy fix” to parking problems in Cardiff.
Speaking at a recent PACT meeting Coun Patel told residents Cardiff council was “never going to be able to solve all the parking problems.”
His revelation was in response to residents’ anger over continuing parking issues throughout the ward.
Despite the area now being made up of 50 per cent resident parking, many households are still experiencing difficultly in parking their vehicles due to
commuters filling up their streets in a bid to avoid hefty, city parking charges.
“We are always worried when we leave our home we won’t be able to park our vehicles when we return and we will get a ticket,” said Paul Kaged who lives on Landsdown road.
Other residents voiced their concerns about friends being unable to park while visiting their homes, with fans during Cardiff City matches and city commuters taking up the other 50 per cent of free parking on streets.
Coun Patel recognised streets were being abused, but he blamed a 19th century road structure and multiple occupying households with more than one car on current problems being faced by the residents of Canton.
But one resident hit back at Patel, slamming public transport as an inadequate mode of getting to work.
Ian Thomas, 26, from Victoria Road, Canton said: “I’d use public transport if it got me to work on time for meetings and if it was reliable so I knew I was going to get to work on time in the morning.”
But not everyone is completely unsatisfied with the scheme, which was brought into force on the back of the Cardiff City build under a section 106 agreement.
Bill Saundrs, 71, has lived on Clive road for 42 years. He said: “I now have an 80 per cent chance of parking my vehicle, something I have never had for the last 10 years.”
Since July last year, 31,461 parking tickets have been issued in Cardiff to people who parked illegally in resident bays and on double yellow lines, generating more than £600,000 for Cardiff City Council.
Coun Patel now hopes the money can be used to enforce tighter parking controls throughout the area by employing more traffic wardens.
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