Seeing red over parking on route

Having spent thousands of pounds on red paint and signs that you need a degree to understand, I still find that after six months or so of the Red Route system, it has actually made things worse.

I speak from experience, having to use 95 per cent of the Red Route twice a day during the times when parking is not allowed.

In a typical week's travel from the Three Tuns island into the city centre, to drop my wife off every morning at 7.30am, then travelling back to my place of work in Fordhouses for 8am, the number of cars flouting the law is beyond belief.

There is never a parking attendant in sight, anywhere along the route, let alone near the Three Tuns shops where the problem is at its worst.

Again every night, at about 5.15pm, I do the same trip in reverse, and one vehicle always catches my eye on the stretch of Stafford Road between Oxley Moore Road lights and the Goodyear island.

It is a white hire van, parked all on its own in the main road, right by a sign saying he should not be there at that time of day.

That van has been there nearly every day at the same time for about two months, so either he is a rich person who can afford to pay the fine every night or he has been lucky and not got one ticket at all.

I am in favour of the red route because traffic was particularly bad around Three Tuns in the rush hour, but having spent all that money it seems they did not have enough left to employ a parking attendant, which to me is definitely a waste of our council tax.

Come on, Wolverhampton Council, – pull your finger out.

Anthony Powis, Sandon Road, Fordhouses.