Time for a change on parking (From Chorley Citizen)

Time for a change on parking

5:13pm Wednesday 4th February 2009

• Print
• Email
• Share
• Comments(1)

So! The parking scheme with its idiotic financial set up is being abandoned.

Well, getting a £30 charge and then having to spend over £40 to "process" the thing seems a bit daft to me.

If you did this kind of thing in private business, someone would have been sacked after a month or so!

How about putting a traffic barrier on the Flat Iron, with the ticket payment on the way out?

Schemes like this work in other towns not wedded to craziness like Chorley.

Also, how about free parking in Chorley? Get rid of all the Wardens and just have a couple servicing the Flat Iron gated parking area, (with no penalty charges).

A bit of freedom and common sense would be a change for the ever more oppressed motorist! Wouldn’t it just!

Not much chance of that though, as LCC and councils seek ever more oppressive ways to get money out of everyone.

Has no-one in so called "authority" ever thought of the savings to be made if all these jobsworths were dispensed with?

And the benefits which would accrue if towns like Chorley started to help market the town as free parking?

How much more the shops would be busy, and the extra money that could quite well flow into the town?

With the long awaited roof to the market to be paid for, if we could get away from the petty rules and regulations attitude which has permeated national then local government since 1997, then we may be able to move into a better time. Obama said it during his election challenge. "Time for a change" and "Yes we can".

How about it LCC, how about it Chorley BC?

Are you up to it? Ditching the petty rules which drive trade away would be a good way to show you are in touch with local opinion!

J Hill Chorley

• Print
• Email
• Share
• Comments(1)