IS it the case that the strict parking regime in Bolton town centre is designed to allow more motorists access?

If so, your letters column has shown for weeks that it is a failure, as correspondent after correspondent 'queues up' to explain why they are 'driven' to out-of-town shopping centres.

Can I suggest that the dedicated team of hard-working parking attendants, at present ruthlessly carrying out Council policy, be given a new responsibility?

I propose the Council paint a yellow line at the top of Tudor Avenue. Then, if the zealous town centre attendants are transferred to patrol this section of road (at least 100 yards) between 8.15-9am and 3.30-4.30pm, there will be a threefold benefit.

First of all, if the chauffeurs of the Bolton School students treat this 'no parking' zone with the disdain they have shown to the cycling lane outside their 'prep' school (Clevelands) these last few months, then the town's revenues will rocket.

Secondly, the parking attendants will have the unusual pleasure of becoming enormously popular as they try to enable people to get to work who are unfortunate enough to have to use this road.

But the most important outcome would surely be the possible prevention of an accident at present waiting to happen. The disregard these chauffeurs show daily to other motorists, cyclists and pedestrians is breathtaking, and I hope the Council feels able to pursue the policy I suggest. Or do Bolton School students have special needs of which I am unaware?

Tom Hanley

Chorley New Road

Bolton