Yet another bad parking story

Ongoing parking problems in the town were highlighted once again on Saturday when Paul Aspell saw an elderly lady trying to get by a pony trailer and towing vehicle parked on the narrow footpath.



"I had to step out on the road and wave traffic to slow so she could walk around the trailer safely on the road," he told the Diary. "I asked the driver of the vehicle was there any chance of moving it off the path and onto the road, but I was totally ignored."

The location is yet another one crying out for double yellow lines, as part of a properly thought out parking plan for the town.

Though, of course, any such plan would have to be enforced too. And on the track record in such things so far, it mightn't be worth the cost of the yellow paint.

Brian Byrne.