WHILE walking down Parliament Street last Tuesday evening at approximately 7.48pm, my husband and I noticed not one, not two, but three traffic wardens filling out notices to place on vehicles.
There were eight vehicles in total - two of which belonged to the traffic wardens. Six vehicles, three wardens!
Oh for a camera, it was like watching a comedy sketch apart from the fact that we are paying their wages.
I am taking it for granted that one of these gentlemen would be in receipt of some overtime pay and that our traffic wardens work some sort of shift system, but can someone explain the efficiency (or should it be total inefficiency?) of having three traffic wardens in the same place in the city centre, two with vehicles, at the same time? Does not each warden have a particular area to patrol?
Patricia Taylor,
Windermere,
York.
Updated: 10:49 Tuesday, August 21, 2001
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