PARKING PROBLEMS II As a PSV (coach) driver I have
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a complaint to make to the planners of town and city councils. Do not put coach parks miles out of the centres of your town and cities.
The councils and traders all want people to come into their areas to spend money, but make coaches park miles from the centres making passengers walk a long way to and from their coach. These people deserve better than this.
The other week I took our local Womens' Institute to Chester for a day out, after finding the coach and lorry park closed because the fair was in it, I tried finding somewhere else to park for the elderly passengers I had on board. After being told by one car park attendant that I could not park in his car park (which was half empty).
I stopped the local service bus for help and was told that it was impossible to park. The council had not thought of where coaches and lorries would park while they took money off the fair which was in our park.
1 had to drop my passengers off in the centre and leave them there for five-and-a-half hours while I had to go out of Chester to park.
Of course, Chester is not the only place guilty of this crime, so please think of the people coming into your towns and cities.
I stand to be corrected if Chester did have alternative parking that weekend.
Thanks for a great magazine. Peter G Williams, Address supplied.