Wardens play hide and seek

Last Saturday week I travelled to Gozo for the Nadur wine festival. Arriving at Cirkewwa at about 8 p.m. I realised there was no parking space available.

The only available space was in a line that was forming outside the designated parking spaces. The cars parked within this line did not block other vehicles.

Having no other option, I tried my luck and joined the line.

We boarded the 9 p.m. ferry and as it was departing we witnessed wardens come out of their hiding place and slap fines on all the cars parked outside the allocated spaces.

Rather than stop the cars from parking irregularly, they waited for the passengers to leave and then issued the parking tickets. Is this the way to 'educate' the public?

Or was this just another exercise to generate revenue? It appears to be a fact that wardens are more intent on reaching the quota of tickets they need to issue than improving traffic management.

What a shame!