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IT WAS DIFFICULT not to feel a twingi of sympathy
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for Ian Mikardo. Eve' though he made it plain that he was no complaining.
For, with cars and lorries seemingl: parked on practically every pavement ii London, it was rather rough on thi Member of Bethnal Green and Bow tha he should be, as he put it, pinched fo parking his car in a Westminster Squar with the nearside rear wheel just on th pavement. • But there were no bitter feeling fron Mr Mikardo . . "For that, I got it, quit properly, where the chicken got th chopper," he recalled.
Was there, however, just a touch c bitterness in his tribute to the vigilance c the policeman who noticed the offendin wheel — especially as he followed it up b offering to take the Commissioner to narrow street in East London which, fc seven days a week, has vehicles parke on the footpath within one foot of th wall of the buildings.
Mr Mikardo did not believe this woul be permitted for one minute in the mor delectable parts of Hampstead — it cei tainly would not be in Westminste where he lived — so how was it that I went on with impunity in an area wher only working people lived?
He was immediately disillusioned b the Member for Hampstead, Geoffre Finsberg, who is Under-Secretary for th Environment. The environment in 'app 'Ampstead is, apparently, not all the outsiders believe it to be — many street are permanently blocked by vehicles o the pavement, said Mr Finsberg, Well, a lot of them could — and dit From the "leafy outer borough" of RCM' ford to the Thames-side Woolwich Eas there were blood-chilling tales of lim trees having to be cut down and heav lorries crunching across paving stone: In London, it would seem, the vehicl reigns supreme, so at first glance it woul seem odd that MPs were debating, an eventually approving, a Bill whict among other things, will take away fror the GLC the power to regulate parking. But the rulers of London are not k mitting defeat. They will give up thei parking powers only when the Roa Traffic Act of 1974 gives the Governmen the authority to control where vehicle are left.
Which, unless the new Governmen changes things, means that London ha to solve its parking problems itself unt October 1980.