Parking meters are to blame

When parking meters and wardens were introduced the intention was to fund off street parking.

To this end the late Alderman Jack Baker proposed that with electric trains, the station should be built over (there is a plan on file), the “Blow Hole” having been closed, making the platforms a sheltered place for rail travellers.

Thus freeing the streets for lighter mixed traffic.

This failed because meters were found to be a political “cash cow”.

Rother District Council persuaded East Sussex County Council (ESCC) to implement a parking scheme on ESCC highways, moving the responsibility, in the bargain.

Does this mean that all the main places of entertainment can only be visited by highly inflexible, publicly subsidized public transport?

The proof is the present pandemic.

The places of entertainment affected are, fishing club, sailing club, rowing club, De la Warr Pavilion.

Then of course there is the beach and huts.

I predict that the latter will be covered by a swimming certificate with licencing and insurance etc.

Will the last one leaving the Old Town please turn the lights out.

Because of a shared funding scheme the pavements, in mixed ownership, were badly widened to the peril of pedestrians’.

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