The parking predators
ON January 7, I parked in Ambrose Place, Worthing.
As I pulled up into a space near the pay and display machine, I noticed one of the NCP parking attendants. He looked up and saw me park, and then went back to checking windscreens for parking vouchers.
I got out of my car, locked it and crossed the road to the pay machine.
I waited as a man in front of me paid for his parking voucher.
As I started putting money into the machine the parking attendant went over to my car, ticket book in hand, and started searching for a parking voucher, which of course he wouldn't have found as I had only just pulled up.
I called out to him and said that it was my car and I was buying a voucher.
He mumbled something and went on his way.
Are we not even allowed time to buy a voucher without being pounced on?
I suspect that if I had not been directly across the road from him I would have had a ticket by the time I returned to my car.
Perhaps the money-grabbing Conservative councillors who decided that street parking in the town should be run by an outside agency might like to reconsider their actions when the town centre is a wasteland full of even more empty premises.
Along with the extortionate rates businesses have to pay for their premises, people will boycott the town because of these parking predators.
Mrs K Dow
Walpole Avenue
Worthing
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