City should park this transport like a one-way street to disaster
filled with pedestrians and cyclists but with no shops or stores.
How is penalising drivers with a levy and reducing the number of parking places going to boost visitor numbers and set the tills ringing?
I am not totally against the proposals, but as they stand they seem to be just another punitive attack on car owners.
And that will only further impede rates-burdened businesses, buckling under the rise of online shopping and whose custom is in danger of being lost to suburban shopping malls.
These malls are soulless places, but parking is free and customers can fill their cars up with shopping bags without lugging them down the road to a bus stop.
To preserve the city, to encourage visitors and boost business then a better solution needs to be found.
One which encourages all forms of transport, not one that alienates Scotland’s most popular mode of transport, the car.
And, on balance, I think the car will be popular for decades to come. Glad to hear that Knickers, a giant Holstein-friesian steer, standing at an astonishing 6ft 4in tall and weighing in at a scales-bursting 1.4 tonnes will now spend the rest of his days chewing the cud.
His farmer was told to “burger off” by an abattoir in Western Australia as Knickers was too big to be processed, which has delighted millions of animal lovers and vegetarians around the world.
Not sure how the residents of South Queensland, who had to flee catastrophic bush fires and devastating flash floods this week will feel about his lucky reprieve, after climatologists said the methane produced by the burps and parps of livestock like Knickers is the greatest cause of greenhouse gases and largely responsible for the increase in global warming.
Given the size of Knickers, one eruption from him could probably blow Australia off the map!