I HAVE been spitting feathers ever since I read your front page article on parking in Hexham (Courant, May 15).
Who does Coun. Terry Robson think he is to even suggest that people (especially women) should walk from Tyne Green, do a day’s work, then walk back to Tyne Green again at night?
I for one, am on my feet all day, up and down stairs and climbing ladders – I think you can class that as exercise, Coun. Robson!
If this proposal goes ahead, who is going to pay for extra lighting, provide safer paths and grit the pavements in bad weather?
The walk down to Wentworth is already treacherous in bad weather (even rain) so I dread to think what conditions will be faced walking to and from Tyne Green.
If the workers are banished to the outskirts, there soon won’t be a town for visitors at all because people won’t want to work here.
If I parked at M&S at the current rate of £2 per day, working full time and allowing for holidays, it would cost me £470 a year. I have worked in the town for 30 years and have always parked in Wentworth quite happily paying the yearly permit, as have many others.
I will seriously have to think of retiring before I will park on Tyne Green.
When are the councillors going to learn to listen to the people of Hexham?
MARION ARMSTRONG,
Acomb
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