Charging to Park until midnight

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This Freedom Of Information Request was based on the following
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Name: Ben Tweedy
Address: See email
Email: [FOI #28073 email]
Telephone:
Request Details: Re. Proposed plan to charge for parking until midnight
please tell me what investigation/survey was carried out to realise the
congestion
calming benefits of the proposed scheme, and please provide me with
a copy of said report/investigation/survey.

If no such report/investigation/survey has been carried out, please
explain to me why council officers worked out EXACTLY how much
money could be raised by charging vehicles to park until
midnight/raising parking charges above the rate of inflation,
rather than investigating the potential congestion calming
benefits

FOI Reference Number: 4918
Target Completion Date: 26/02/2010

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Dear Mr Tweedy,

Please find enclosed a response to your FOI request 4918.

Yours sincerley

Gordon Deas
Departmental Records Officer
Parking Services

<<FOI4918tweedy.gd.doc>>

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Dear Mr Tweedy,

Thank your for your reply dated 22 February 2010.

In relation to your FOI request 4918, the following information was
requested:

1) "Re. Proposed plan to charge for parking until midnight please tell me
what investigation/survey was carried out to realise the congestion
calming benefits of the proposed scheme, and please provide me with a copy
of said report/investigation/survey."

2) "If no such report/investigation/survey has been carried out, please
explain to me why council officers worked out EXACTLY how much money could
be raised by charging vehicles to park until midnight/raising parking
charges above the rate of inflation, rather than investigating the
potential congestion calming benefits."

1) In relation to the first aspect of your request, I can advise that no
specific investigation/survey was undertaken. This information is not
held by the City Council of the purpose of the FOI Act 2000.

2) The rationale behind the proposals is contained and fully explained in
the Cabinet Report of 18 January 2010. Please refer to the web link
provided in our response.

Yours sincerely

Gordon Deas
Departmental Records Officer
Parking Services

Dear Customer Relations,

Thank you for your reply. You have supplied information which does
not answer the questions i posed.

I am fully aware that these are only options and that you wont make
any decision until the summer.

Please read my original request and answer the questions.

Yours sincerely,

Ben Tweedy

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