Farewell to city shops after parking nightmare

ON the subject of parking in Leeds, my wife and I recently visited the city.

We decided to park in the Edward Street car park to be central to the shops. However, the ticket machine would not accept our credit card and there was indeed a queue of people who were not having any success with the new technology.

We eventually found the ticket machine which allowed us to pay with good old-fashioned cash and duly paid the £7 for a four-hour slot (we were back in 2.5 hours with time to spare).

The week after, I received a letter, which can only be described as “with menace” from the car park operator demanding £60 to be settled in 28 days or it would be increased to £100.

We were given 14 days to reply. Luckily I had kept the ticket (how many unfortunates didn’t save their ticket) and sent it (after copying) to them by registered, signed for post with next day delivery (at a cost of £6.22).

We received a “reply” to our “appeal” where their decision was to cancel the pending action stating that “this is a one time gesture of goodwill and will not be repeated on future occasions” and the matter is now closed.

I would like to reply to this through the pages of our Yorkshire Post.

The parking issue will never be repeated as the UKCPS has so ungratefully pointed out, because we will never be coming back to Leeds to spend a single penny, nothing, now’t, so it’s goodbye from her and it’s goodbye from me.

Old Yorkshire saying: “Brass spends anyweer”.

Oh yes, nearly forgot to say: Leeds, sort out your car parking, 
it will cost you more than 
you think in the long run, eventually.

There must be more than us affected by this scam.