Where will money go?

Wolverhampton is to get double the number of traffic wardens, with a predicted income of up to £350,000 in one single year, apparently to make Wolverhampton a safer, less congested city.

Funny how large amounts of extra cash extorted from Joe Public always seem to have this effect on councils. Question is, what will they do with the extra cash?

Hopefully they could use some of the windfall tax to decrease parking problems and improve public safety on weekend nights by opening the council-owned civic car park in the heart of the city 24 hours, thus easing the parking problems of the city centre.

At the moment the situation is that if you go to the city centre late on weekend nights in your car, there's virtually nowhere legally for you to park as the car park is locked at 11pm, while on the other hand they pander to the drunks by giving them taxi wardens.

The message from Wolverhampton Council appears to me to be that if you are a responsible group of revellers who come into the city by car, the council will relieve you of £60 and spend it on encouraging more drunks to stagger around in the middle of the road searching for taxis home.

Gordon Edward, Fanthom, Hinksford Gardens, Swindon.