IN YOUR report about Parking ‘Hot Spots’ (Adver, May 22), I thought it interesting to note the police van parked within the double yellow lines in Henry Street, thereby causing problems with people with children in ‘buggies’ and the disabled on their mobility scooters that forces people out into the road to pass!

I am aware of the dispensation allowing certain services to park under certain conditions within these areas, but due consideration needs to be addressed when these buildings are constructed. This type of issue raises concerns with parking tickets being issued almost at will on many occasions. I do, though, realise the importance of enforcement but when you see the police etc, applying the rules but causing possible inconvenience, it makes one think!

If a disabled driver parks on double yellow lines, as permitted under certain situations, but in so doing causes an obstruction, the police are quite entitled to ask the driver to move on.

That doesn’t work for all though.

On another matter, I am still awaiting a member of Swindon Borough Council Highways to accompany me, in my car, over the rumble strips in Tadpole Lane. They are quite slow in responding, but are considering the ‘risk assessment’ of such a thing.

So a driver who is a RoSPA Gold, an advanced tutor, a DiaMOND master driver, an IAM national observer and local observer assessor, plus holding a fellowship of the Association of Industrial Road Safety Officers and covered by comprehensive insurance needs to be ‘risk assessed’ when these Highways Officials probably travel with each other on occasions with never another thought.

I have queried the rumble strips having the placings too close to each other, ambulances not being able to place a wheel either side to allow for patient comfort and care, the rumble strips at Blunsdon being outside of properties, which under guidelines are considered inappropriate, the better highlighting possibly required on the pillars by build outs, etc and all I get is a load of legal waffle.

The whole issue is to slow people down in many areas to make them use other main routes. Tadpole Lane is a main route for me to access the dual carriageway A419 and Blunsdon, Highworth etc, but I do seem to lack support from a common sense approach on these issues.

CHRIS GLEED (FAIRSO) Purton Swindon