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Letters to the Editor
 
Candidates: Your priorities please,
parking or people?

I for one am looking forward to a knock at my door from the prospective councillors in this local election. Before anyone starts sending in the men in white coats, let me explain; I want to quiz each party about their policies on parking regulations.
My car was recently towed from my own road when, due to a panic about my daughter, who was very ill and had to be rushed to hospital, I was a few centimetres over a residents’ parking bay.
I was sickened but not that surprised when my appeal against my towing away was rejected by the council. Sickened because they obviously put a few 100 quid ahead of the welfare of an ill four-year-old. But not that surprised after reading in this paper that parking restrictions are all about raising money (Street works depend on fines from parking, Town Hall says, April 6).
And boy does Camden need to raise a lot of money as it is obsessed with traffic calming schemes.
Last year, my relatively safe road was speed humped, Mansfield Road has been made narrower, in the last month the raised platforms in Southampton Road were altered, while at the same time roads off Haverstock Hill were having the original-style raised platforms put in. I want to know what my prospective councillors are going to do to stem the tide of this parking obsession – and how will they stop other ill four-year-olds being exploited in this way.
ALEX COHEN
Shirlock Road, NW3


Send your letters to: The Letters Editor, Camden New Journal, 40 Camden Road, London, NW1 9DR or email to letters@camdennewjournal.co.uk. The deadline for letters is midday Tuesday. The editor regrets that anonymous letters cannot be published, although names and addresses can be withheld. Please include a full name, postal address and telephone number. Letters may be edited for reasons of space.
 
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