Mario Zammit (The Sunday Times, August 17) and Adrian Muscat-Inglott's consumer affairs column stubbornly continue to peddle a flawed court judgment which seemed oblivious to the fact that garage-owners actually own the street in front of them without paying local councils for this privileged service.

There are entire streets with so many garages they are actually parking-prohibited zones for non-residents.

Mr Zammit and his ilk want to continue to own - for free - the road in front of their garage, while being able to park for free in someone else's street. This selfish attitude is symptomatic of the present Maltese generation of spoilt brats, who have been weaned on 40 years of nanny state politics, and which has imbued them with a sense that everything (including the environment, flora and fauna) is for their own personal use and enrichment - irrespective of whether others suffer as a consequence.

If this court judgment is so brilliant, why don't we park in Valletta's Palace Square, on a first-come-first-served basis, even when Parliament is in session? Why are we not permitted to park in Mdina? We seriously need to start controlling traffic because it is choking our town and city cores.