Editor,

So Jean Miles thinks that traffic wardens should not go to Harlech in the winter and let people break the law by parking on yellow lines (Letters, 13 February).

Does she not realise that the yellow lines are there for a purpose? Namely, to keep traffic flowing, especially for emergency vehicles.

Instead of feeling sorry for the law breakers who got caught and fined, perhaps she should think about the law-abiding citizens who pay to park in the car parks and who then walk across to the shops. They then find people blithely disregarding the law and parking on yellow lines right outside the shops - people who are too mean to pay the car park charges and too lazy to walk from the car parks.

It is a pity the traffic wardens don’t go there more often. Motorists would then be less likely to break the law if they felt there was more likelihood of getting caught.

The council is too cash strapped to employ more wardens. Raising money by fining law-breakers seems to me a very good way of raising cash.

Struggling shopkeepers in places like Harlech could be helped in winter by abolishing car park charges not by turning a blind eye to law breakers.

Edmund Brown Lynton Close Chester

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