Cars and other vehicles

Since we have lived in Epsom, the numbers of cars on our suburban road has much increased. Part of this is commuters who are too mean or too lazy to park in the car park provided near the station. But a good part of it is the residents of houses whose cars have outgrown their premises: reducing the provision of off-road car parking by extending their houses and increasing the need for car parking by moving to from single to multi-occupancy.

Not to mention the caravans which used to be frowned upon and the vans which hardly existed. Except perhaps outside small houses on large plots out on the fens; houses with few or any neighbours. People with vans mostly had yards in which to park them.

I noticed this morning that the disease has spread to our local preparatory school, on the top of West Hill, with two of their three vans being parked in the road outside. A school which still has quite large grounds, despite extensive building out the back.

Vans which as well as being there, irritate by having loud pictures and advertisements printed on their sides, a practise which I do not care for. Also dangerous in that it both distracts and camouflages, this last by breaking up the lines of the vehicle.