Although I don't live on Tranby Avenue I saw your letter to a friend of mine who lives on Tranby Avenue. I live on Bransdale Crescent and does affect me when driving up and down Tranby Avenue. Your proposals are encouraged but it will not solve the problem. Putting yellow lines and restrictions on Tranby and Baysdale will only push the problem further down Tranby and include Bransdale Crescent and other residential streets.

More works need to be done with getting the University to open up their car parks. The is the main cause of the problem.

Thank you for your letter of 13th September (ADB/DH/546) outlining the proposed waiting Restrictions in the areas mentioned above.

My family are residents of Tranby Avenue, outside of the areas where the proposed restrictions will be implemented. However, it appears inevitable that the parking issues currently seen closer to Hull Road will migrate further down Tranby Avenue under the current proposals. We do already see increased parking directly outside our house during University term time anyway, in some cases seeing cars parked for weeks at a time.

We are not necessarily against the proposals, but do think there needs to be mitigation for the obvious result that the parking issues will spread elsewhere, particularly when the restrictions affect such a geographically small area (i.e., having to walk an extra minute or two is not a disincentive to parking in the area as a whole).

We would be interested to know why a residents' parking permit scheme is not being proposed, if you are able to let us know. We would not be averse to such a scheme, and suspect that an Osbaldwick wide scheme would have greater efficacy for all residents than the current proposals. Given the evident link to University term times, the permit scheme could be lifted over the summer recess.

I am writing about cars parked on Tranby Avenue and the entire Osbaldwick area. It causes a lot of problems, it is a main road when you come off the roundabout! The road is not a car park. The problem also appears that it is on a bend, and buses also run on this route. I hope someone will take an interest in this and report it. Double yellow lines might be helpful but someone should definitely check this.