HOW unfortunate for the supporters of the parking scheme.
Their letter was printed on the very night that it is announced that two more holiday accommodation providers are to close their doors.
The headline: "Hotel, holiday flats set for conversion said it all.
The parking scheme may have had no dire
ct effect on these businesses closing but indirectly it has affected the whole economy of the town.
No visitors to this town have parking schemes as big as ours in their home towns.
The scheme that has been introduced here is revolutionary it is the largest in the country.
Pointing out the scheme's failures does not undermine the scheme or cause residents and motorists concern, the scheme itself does that without any help from anyone.
The money wasted on this scheme is scandalous when so many worthwhile projects need doing around the town.
The £400,000 used to set up the scheme would have been better spent resurfacing Maple Drive.
This busy bus route with a school on it is like a dirt-track.
The nearly £300,000 spent annually on traffic wardens could just
as easily be used to employ park rangers, making Peasholm Park
safe and secure for residents and
visitors.
The almost £50,000 spent on printing parking tickets would be of more benefit to the residents of Northstead if it was used to maintain some of our pavements, which are more like obstacle courses than safe walkways.
As for the council listening to sense and rectifying the scheme's many faults, this will never happen.
If the radical changes needed to make the scheme viable were implemented those who supported the scheme would have to admit that they had made mistakes.
Cllr Norman Murphy
Ryndle Walk
Scarborough
