St Helier scraps one-way road plan for Cheapside

Wednesday 1st September 2010, 2:57PM BST.

While plans for a one-way system have been scrapped, Cheapside will still undergo a facelift

PLANS for a one-way traffic system around St John’s Road at Cheapside have been scrapped.

When canvassed about a regeneration plan for Cheapside, most parishioners supported proposals for wider pavements, more benches and bins, and tree planting. They rejected the idea of the one-way system, however, and this has now been dropped.

The £400,000 makeover will be funded from the £44 million fiscal stimulus fund – money set aside last year to create and safeguard jobs during the recession.

The final proposals for the scheme are to be presented at a public meeting at the Town Hall on Tuesday at 7.30 pm.

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Bo Nidle

September 1, 2010 at 3:34 pm

The whole area is a dogs dinner since they introduced the residents parking scheme. You now have to pay for parking ( if you can find any ) up to 10pm. If you buy or rent a property that does not have designated parking then you pay less for it, you should not then expect to be provided with preferential on street parking at the expense of other town users.

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PJG

September 1, 2010 at 3:39 pm

Why not reduce it to a single lane.
After all thats all we have at the moment with all the inconsiderate parking that goes on there.

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Simon

September 1, 2010 at 5:20 pm

@ Bo Nidal
No need to pay for residents parking (and it’s not at others’ expense, it’s paid for, like season tickets) – Parking at Cheapside is not policed (it seems the Constable has directed thus) and so you will never get a ticket if you park in the unloading/disabled/crossing zigzags/yellow line areas at any time.
If they enforced the road markings we could save some of the 400k. The one way would have made Parade road impassible, so good decision there.

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