IT was with particular interest that I read about the traffic warden parked on double yellow lines (October 26).

It appears that York must have been covered with cones at some stage on Sunday, if Mr Scott's team's reasons for the new York parking patrol vehicle to be parked on double yellow lines on Blossom Street at 4pm is to be believed.

For, at about 2.30 the same afternoon, a very similar looking vehicle was forcing buses to stop in the middle of Piccadilly to allow passengers to alight after it had been parked on double yellow lines in the bus stop.

On this particular occasion however the wardens returned to their vehicle (having just plastered a ticket on the windscreen of a vehicle opposite the Red Lion public house) sans cones!

While I fully support the concept of the new parking patrols, had I been the recipient of the ticket on Sunday afternoon I would have felt more than aggrieved that the delivers of such a rap on the knuckles believe themselves to be above the law.

R Japes,

Osbaldwick Lane,

York.