Parking laws

Sir,

Congratulations for Yiouli Taki’s article in the Sunday Mail about illegal parking.
It puts everything in perspective, doesn’t it? If you have friends in the right places you can pretty well do what you like.

We all see cars parked illegally on a daily basis near certain establishments, and the authorities turn a blind eye. Imagine my surprise, then, when a visitor at my house received a call from her husband last night asking her to move her car because the police had called him to say it was illegally parked!

The car in question was actually parked perfectly legally, but outside a kiosk. When the driver went to move it the kiosk owner informed her that she could not park there because it was for his customers! So the police can use their database to trace a car owner, call his house and demand he remove the vehicle, even when it is parked legally, but they can’t stop the hundreds of drivers who illegally park their vehicles?

I wonder whether the kiosk owner is a policeman, or closely related to one …perhaps that’s why he has been allowed to enclose the pavement outside the kiosk, forcing pedestrians to walk in the narrow road, and why no one seems to bother when his customers park on the junction with the main road, creating a serious hazard to other road users.

So much for our hugely-hyped road safety campaign!

M. Charalambous, Nicosia

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