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Hypocrisy over Mayor’s parking
11:15am Tuesday 11th March 2008
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PARKING has become incredibly controversial since it was de-criminalised and put in council bosses' hands in 2004.
Amidst such anger, it is therefore vital that the system is seen as fair.
Today it seems anything but.
It has been revealed that the Mayor of Blackburn with Darwen's official car has been given a temporary parking space at a bus stop.
If the public left their vehicle there, they would be fined £30.
The debacle comes after the council's wardens in recent months took a strict line and fined motorists for seemingly petty infringements.
For example, one motorist was given a fixed-penalty notice for waiting on yellow lines for two minutes while he was picking his wife up from a pub.
A warden even booked a security van delivering cash to a bank.
The de-criminalisation of parking has seen the number of pay-and-display streets rocket.
Council bosses have always insisted that this was in the name of tackling rogue parking and not profit.
But their actions with the mayor's car show the council to be disregarding parking laws.
The hypocrisy is sure to make every motorist's blood boil.
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simplysimon, burnley says...
3:37pm Tue 11 Mar 08
Parking has become a get cash quick industry. Very hard to stop an Industry like that.
The council are not here to observe the law. The Council members are here to exploit the Law.
Has there ever been a time when any grown up person thought these individuals were NOT the Mafia ?
With the law-enforcers on their side, of course.