Telford MP David Wright has joined a borough councillor and a leading businessman calling for a total review of parking in Oakengates.
Mr Wright said car parks in the town were regularly full and people parked on double yelolow lines and along the pavements in Oxford and Market Streets.
The Labour MP, together with Councillor Hilda Rhodes and Rob Hardy, owner of The Mall in Oakengates, has called for a widescale review of parking in Oakengates.
Mr Wright claimed the situation was currently chaotic and dangerous and added: “Oakengates businesses rely on passing trade in the main streets and we need to look at a chevron parking scheme in the town.
“The present parking provision clearly doesn’t work and a new scheme would allow more cars to park in designated spaces. “Quite frankly, the current parking chaos must end.”
“We need the borough council to conduct a parking capacity review in the centre of Oakengates as a whole and they must tackle the situation in Market Street and Oxford Street.”
Footpaths
Councillor Rhodes, Labour ward councillor for Ketley and Oakengates claimed cars parked on the pavements in the town and destroyed the surface and people with wheelchairs and pushchairs found it difficult to negotiate the footpaths.
She said Oakengates Town Council had, in the past, called for more action to be taken by traffic wardens but it was an emerging view that a redesign of the street would be the only real solution to the problem.
Mr Hardy said: “I back the idea of chevron parking so that we can sort out the problems in the main street and continue to draw in passing trade.”