From John Fox.
JUST recently I decided to travel to town more on my motorcycle when I didn’t need a car. Surprise, surprise, nowhere to park.

All the motorcycle bays were full in town during the day, including the bays in the multi-storey car parks. When I tried to park in a car bay on the road I was told by the ever-loving parking warden that he would give me a ticket if I didn’t use the correct bays for motorcycles.

I told him that they were all full and that anyway I would only be a few minutes at the bank. ‘You’ll get a ticket if you leave it there,’ he said. I asked him if he wanted me to take the motorbike home and come back with my car as I cannot put a scratchcard in the window of the motorcycle (it would not have been accepted anyway, he said).

I think he saw sense, because I didn’t get a ticket on my return, bless him. He probably couldn’t stick it in the window. I hope that someone in charge of town parking takes note that if you want to reduce cars in town you need to provide more spaces for motorcycles.

That goes for pushbikes, too, as I noted that most of their spaces were almost full too.
Maison Signaux,
La Moye,
St Brelade.