Wendy Stepney, of BDL Gas services in Rainham High Street, discusses the problems posed to her business by the new "red routes" parking scheme introduced in Medway.
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00:00 A bit of a shock for us to come in on, I can't remember which day, whether it be Monday or Tuesday
00:05 and there they are, the red lines. We knew they were coming but we weren't actually told when.
00:10 We're fully aware that the camera is not active until the 20th of May. But the drivers coming
00:17 won't know that, so it's going to cause us problem and a lot of them is deliveries that is an issue
00:23 for us. Some of the lorries are Artex and they really don't have anywhere to go. We asked for
00:29 space for parking around the side in Cornell Street which we were told would be allocated,
00:35 it hasn't been. There's definitely not going to be enough room there for us. And also the
00:42 lorry drivers get fined for parking and some of the companies won't pay those fines so the lorry
00:50 drivers consequently won't stop. I had a delivery this morning and the guy says he encounters an
00:57 average of six parking tickets a week and his company pay them. So at the end of the day
01:05 the general public are funding that one way or another. The problem is where they've been digging
01:10 up the roads here, there and everywhere and causing congestion. There isn't congestion on here.
01:15 When the motorway shuts all the traffic comes down this way, but you can't avoid that and the
01:21 red route's not going to have nothing to do with that. It really is a money-making issue.