Bag's Rants

What is it with these clowns and parking?

I'm confused about the issue most, if not all, of our councils have about car parking. They see it as simply a source of revenue and screw it for all they can.

This council however seems to be taking the biscuit. As well as screwing the motorist by charging £1 an hour in the evenings from October it has the cheek to say that it is doing so to save on it's council tax obligations. The council leader Tudor Evans says "The revenue we raise from these price rises will help us meet some of our obligations in maintaining car parks, maintaining subsidised bus routes and it will help towards other transport schemes without putting pressure on council tax.". Read more here.

So what they are saying is the rich car drivers can subsidise the poorer bus users who use unprofitable routes and we won't have to put unpopular council taxes rises in to cover it. Everyone knows car drivers are scum and deserve to be screwed over. (I may have made up a bit there)

I can only assume that the council there are Labour. Another way the people driving cars are screwed by those that hate them to subsidise those that hate them.

I hope what has happened here happens there. People don't use the car parks here now during the day. There are always plenty of spaces and the council appears to have a shortfall on the budget. So sad.

posted by Bag @ 9:30 am