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Published Date: 17 January 2008
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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  • Last Updated: 17 January 2008 3:48 PM
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Steve Norton,

20/01/2008 08:53:50
Mrs Dow.
These attendants must see thousands of cars a day & to have to remember every single one & when it pulled up must be a real bore for them.
If the attendant hadn't checked your car for a voucher, then he/she would not have been doing the job right?
That's what I call efficient & that's why they have the contract to manage the parking in the town.
What is it with everyone these days? Everyone is obsessed with parking!
There are rules & people to police those rules. Just abide by them & get on with it & there won't be a problem.Don't see why it's so difficult really.
As for the local government, well, the folks of Worthing only have themselves to blame don't they. I haven't noticed anyone assuming the blame for a shoddily run local government, have you?
If you really don't like it, then don't vote for them (if you even bothered voting at all).
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Sir Michael Black-Feather (Brig,Gen. Kt),

Worthing 20/01/2008 14:54:47
I’m in full agreement with the letter by Mrs Dow, and as for the comet by S Norton, maybe his ort to learn to read! As his comment has little to do with regards to Mrs Dow letter.

I would also like to bring the readers attention to the fact that in England as far back as I can remember, it was always a tradition to be able to park free and on yellow lines on bank holidays and Sundays, and I cant ever recall Sunday or bank holiday parking to have ever been any real problem, yet now we have no free parking on any of these days, maybe its to help in the costs of certain councillor’s salaries £188,000 p.a and giving themselves a 10.5% pay rises, also I don’t recall anyone of us in Sussex having a vote to has weather or not we want this or wanted outsiders contracted,

The council like government seem to have lost the fact “That they are their too serve the people as public servants and not take it upon themselves to introduce anything without out a vote on any major issues that affect us all in one way another!

M B-F Kt
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Steve Norton,

22/01/2008 07:28:14
LOL In response to M B-F Kt's quip that I should learn to read.
Perhaps he should learn to write first, or at least check his spelling before he posts his comment (not "comet").
Mrs Dow (as did he) inferred that the councilors are somehow to be held accountable for this parking fiasco.
As it is the local government that made the decision to contract the NCP team, then it follws that they indeed are accountable.
Now, taking it logically back to a root cause; why are the councilors in office to enable them to make these decisions (supposedly on behalf of their constituents)?
Is it possibly as a result of the fact that the residents of Worthing voted for them?
Or is there something more sinister in their appointment?
If you are unhappy with the decisions the local government are making (on the voters' behalf)then don't vote for them next time around. Simple.
So, MBF, which comments (or is it "comets") had little to do with Mrs Dow's original letter?
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A Bus driver,

Worthing 10/02/2008 02:22:28
Sir Michael Black-Feather, I'm afraid you are in error, since the invention of the yellow line there has never been a exemption period, they are active 24/7 and always have been.
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