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LONG ARM OF THE LAW REACHES

ACROSS BORDER

People who have broken parking regulations in either Northern Ireland (NI) or the Irish Republic will now find themselves being pursued across the border to pay their fines.

Under a new

On the buses?

On-street parking charges are set to rise in Cambridge in an attempt to encourage people to use the City’s park and ride service. County council

cabinet member for highways, Cllr Mac McGuire, said: ‘Te cost of running the parking scheme has gone up and it has to be self-financing – but the

principle is not simply to make money. ‘We encourage

people to use off-street parking to help the free movement of vehicles and we encourage people to use park and ride.’ Under the price

increases, on-street parking in the roads closest to the city centre would rise from £2

NO TO FREE PARKING

‘Hard times call for hard measures’, said Cllr Deborah Reynolds of Huntingdonshire District Council, after a plan to bring in limited free parking was thrown out by the council’s cabinet.

The move to introduce three hours of free parking at the Riverside car park was refused after the council were warned of the financial situation faced in the coming months. An austerity package has been drawn up aiming to save £6m over the next four years. Under this plan, 38 free places will be offered for a period of two hours.

There was criticism that the failure to provide the extended free parking would lose votes at the coming election and that the council had failed to get local involvement in the decision but Cllr Reynolds said that the decisions had been made for ‘proper financial reasons’ and that the move was not about winning elections but ‘providing the best facilities for the people of Huntingdon’.

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APRIL 2010

an hour to £2.50, an increase of 25 per cent. Jeremy Waller, of

the Cambridge Retail and Commercial Association, said: ‘I think this is completely wrong. Stores depend on people coming into Cambridge. Paying £2.50 an hour is a lot of money. If we are not careful, people will not come here.’

information-sharing agreement, enforcement authorities will be able to identify and take court action against those who contravene motoring regulations. Since 2006, drivers

from the Republic have avoided fines of £1.7m, while last year motorists from north of the border dodged €1.3m. Cross-border

authorities have agreed to share vehicle registration details to ensure that offenders can be more easily pursued through the courts. In the Donegal town

of Buncrana, more than 700 parking tickets

Burnt-out case

As the credit crunch continues to bite, it seems that thieves are prepared to take extreme measures to get their hands on cash. One such bout of

violence took place on a pay-and-display parking machine in Stratford-on-Avon, which was subjected to an oxyacetylene attack. Raiders tried to

Scorcher…

thieves were thwarted by the Metric machine.

were issued last year, but just 200 of them were for cars registered in the Republic. The Republic’s

Department of Transport already has a reciprocal agreement in place with the Driver and

Vehicle Agency

(DVA) in NI to

exchange information on issues such as motor tax and abandoned vehicles. The Republic’s

transport minister Noel Dempsey said the information sharing will be handled using ‘the highest level of security’.

‘It is an indication

of the close levels of co-operation on this project that we have overcome difficulties regarding data privacy and security issues in the pursuit of cross-border traffic offenders,’ he added.

break into the machine, located in a Stratford- on-Avon car park, using oxyacetylene equipment that is used for gas welding. All they succeeded in doing was to leave a scorch mark on the machine. No cash was taken. Richard Boultbee,

Metric Parking’s UK sales manager, said: ‘Fortunately, this kind of attack doesn’t happen very often. But it is good to know that an attempt to steal money from the machine failed.’

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