FROM reading the letters in last week's Citizen there seems to be a misunderstanding about how residents' parking schemes work. Your correspondents seem to think that the money from fines ends up at the Town Hall. This is not the case. Any money from fines levied by the police or traffic wardens, whether due to parking on yellow lines, speeding, parking without a permit in a resident's bay, or any other offence on the highway, goes to the Home Office. If your correspondents feel that the regulations are not being applied properly then they should take this up with the police. The council has no role in the enforcement of traffic regulation orders.

Moving on from the issue of fines to the principle of residents' only parking itself, there was a comment from Mr Smallwood to the effect that there is no need for residents' only parking in the Bulk Road area because there isn't a problem with commuters. There isn't now, because we introduced residents' parking! There certainly was before, as anyone who has lived in that area for some years will tell you. Residents' parking schemes were only introduced into the areas where most people wanted them, and the same will apply to any further schemes in other area in the future.

Cllr Pat Rye

Chair Transportation

Service Group

Lancaster City Council.

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