IT is reported in some quarters that Bury's taxpayers may have to foot a bill of as much as £50,000 due to motorists who were wrongly charged for parking in The Wylde.
This is nonsense. The council will only be repaying levies illegally obtained from motorists because of incorrectly painted "pay and display" bays. As this is money which belongs to those individual drivers who were wrongly charged, how can it be regarded as a penalty on the taxpayer?
The only expense will be the cost of a few stamps on the repayment envelopes, and only then if the motorists concerned can prove that they had used one of the bays in The Wylde.
I wish them luck, because fighting City Hall they haven't got a "snowball's" chance of succeeding.
Who keeps their expired parking meter tickets, anyway?
A. P. TOBIAS
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