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Tickets to raise cash
• IN relation to your front-page article (Drivers attack parking on Facebook, August 10), allow me to furnish you with some of my own investigations by use of the Freedom of Information Act.
The council claims its primary task in issuing parking tickets is to avoid congestion and inconvenience to other motorists and travellers.
It is also fair to say that most vehicles are monitored and ticketed with haste. Few escape a ticket if a violation occurs.
In a two-year period, Tesco vehicles, that is to say articulated lorries often parked back-to-back, have received less than 100 tickets. I have observed at least two vehicles a day on the bus lane outside Tesco and the ensuing traffic chaos that results.
So even at two per day (often there are up to four deliveries), this means 1,408 tickets could have been issued. The council are ‘very sad’ in hoodwinking the public into believing that it is concerned with traffic violations, when it is clearly more concerned with the wheels of capitalism turning and the collection of revenue. Nothing more.
It is no wonder people such as those honest and frank members of Facebook suggest turning to desperate measures.
GORDON McINTOSH
Britannia Row, N1
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