Parking injustice

One cannot solve any problem if one does not first seek its root cause and then move to rectify it, rather than implementing half-baked solutions

Council members, in all localities, should refrain from seeking to acquiesce to the egoistic desires of the local residents in order to safeguard their own re-election to the council.

Sliema councillor Paul Radmilli (May 14) is wrongly equating the universally acceptable “time-controlled parking” for all individuals with “discriminatory residential time-control parking”.

The legal notice 200 of 2009, which the Sliema council is implying gives them authority to implement a discriminatory scheme, is subject to a court case that I had filed and which is awaiting an immediate decision.

Th legal notice was prompted by former minister Austin Gatt who sought to bypass a Court of Appeal’s sentence that had declared preferential residents’ parking schemes to be discriminatory, hence illegal.

Any readers wishing to obtain my final submissions can contact me at jpbnotodrp@gmail.com.