Quick fix to parking issue
Dear Editor,
In reply to Graham Simpson’s column (Working For You, April 4).
The time for talking is over; a lack of parking facilities for ODA and tax office staff also exacerbate this dilemma.
I have a local business and my customers can never get parked due to selfish and confrontational ODA staff and rail commuters. ‘There is only one solution?’ The following would be both quick to implement and cost effective to a hardpressed local government – the land adjacent to the train station on the other side of the existing car park has been proffered to the council.
This would be the cheapest, least disruptive and most cost effective to ratepayers...
●The site already has a walkway over to the platform.
●It could supply 270 to 300 secure car parking spaces in a matter of months (so no need for a lengthy and costly consultation and three times as many spaces as is current).
●It could be privately constructed and run (no need to cost the public purse).
●It could alleviate the parking madness at both government departments (ODA and tax office).
●Parking could be free at weekends allowing people to utilise this resource and local woodland walks or trips to Glasgow and beyond.
●The current car park could have more specialist parking bays.
●Parking could be achieved by season tickets for as little as 50p per day.
The necessary phone calls should be made to get this sorted. Paula Murdoch, Mossneuk