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Nah. You want to encourage people to get out in the park - and that can continue to include people driving in to park in the car parks. It just shouldn't be full of cars just cutting through.
The park is too big and too far from public transport to restrict cars altogether. You'd massively reduce the number of people who use it which would be pretty self defeating. Perhaps a small charge for parking, to encourage non car access, but as there is bugger all alternative I'm not sure what the point would be.
Scrabble-
If only there were ways to get to the park that didn't involve driving ...
(Richmond has pretty good Rail/Underground/Bus access, and 371 goes right by the Richmond hill entrance, 65 follows the Ham side of the park all the way to Kingston)
Edit: and this is a hard thing to argue (where do the restrictions land?), but Richmond Park has an unsustainably high footfall which is permanently changing the landscape there. If some of that footfall is reduced by excluding those who could use public transport to get there but are too lazy to, then honestly that sounds fine
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I don't want to encourage anyone to drive anywhere. There's buses that go past the park. Shuttle service from Richmond could be paid for with parking moolah.
If parking is used in there it should be for disabled people or other people who struggle with movement not someone living down the road who could've taken a bus, ridden or walked there.
branwen
hippy
Simplify it. Just make it £10 to drive into the park for anything.