Ticket the elderly

Had a busy day today.

Early morning photocall at the Post Office in Chiltern Drive and then lots of catch up on post during the course of the day. Constant stream of letters from residents with all nature of issues.

Meetings in the afternoon and then a meeting of one of the Conservative Group think tanks at the Council. This was followed with a ward meeting in Old Malden looking at action days and events over the next few weeks. Great enthusiasm for really getting things moving, inspired by good results at the June elections.

In an earlier blog I talked about traffic wardens being too rigid in the issuance of tickets and that some flexibility needed to be built into the system. Lo and behold I find that the Evening Standard have run a story that says a Kingston traffic warden was sacked because he refused to give a ticket to an elderly couple who he allowed to park on a double yellow line whilst the disabled husband got out of the car! If this is true it is absolute nonsense and the Council should be questioning whether it should be connected with such a lack of compassion.