I HAVE just been asked via my local Lib Dem newsletter if I would be prepared to pay an extra two per cent on my already inflated council tax to fund the replacement of the much-used, always-full Castle car park with a "grassy knoll".
The two per cent a year (subject to annual increases) would pay for the lost car parking revenue.
In short, I am expected to support the council's policy of reducing the available car parking spaces then pay for the privilege (presently around £20 a year) for as long as I choose to live in York.
Why demolish a long-established and much-needed facility to replace it with something which will probably be targeted by yobs and vagrants, as many of York's other "green" spaces are?
I expect the idea will be rejected, but the fact that it was proposed in the first place is yet more proof of the council's fanatical anti-car policies.
Paul Acton,
Jennifer Grove, York.
Updated: 10:24 Monday, February 23, 2004
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