WHEN will Blackburn Council admit that this residents' parking scheme in the Infirmary area is just non-existent?

A month ago, and for the second time this year, the traffic warden himself, not council or police, told me his job was finishing as the wardens were being diverted on to other work that had nothing to do with wrongly parked cars.

The first time, earlier in the year, we were left without wardens for three months with not one word from the council or police.

My neighbour has had to purchase a resident's parking permit recently. Why have they taken her money for a service they are not delivering?

It's time for councillors to come clean. We want to know if we have got a scheme for residents' parking or not.

Many of the problems we are experiencing were highlighted by Brian Swainbank (Letters, September 20), and there are other problems, such as people using permits for 2002 and putting outdated application forms on their dashboards every time they park.

Some one hour parking places were created to help hospital visitors, but some local residents park all day in them.

The scheme was set up to run 24 hours a day, seven days a week. That is what we pay for. If the council cannot run it as it should be, then it should own up to it and don't keep taking pensioners' money.

I wrote to council leader Sir Bill Taylor a couple of months ago and mentioned this problem to him, he replied saying that my comments had been passed on to the department responsible and I would get a reply. I am still waiting.

Will these comments get any response? I'll be watching and waiting.

MR L DARBY, Mosley Street, Blackburn.