Glastonbury Traffic gripes (yet no Festival content)

I read a post on Glastonbury people a few weeks ago concerning ignorant people who double park their cars at the bottom of our already very narrow high street, while in the local paper recently there was concern voiced at heavy vehicles travelling through the town centre which are potentially damaging some of our ancient properties, and in one disturbing incident a person was nearly dragged under the wheels of a lorry.  The trouble is it seems that at the moment if you drive a vehicle in Glastonbury anything goes.  Park where you want and to hell with everyone else.

Tuesday morning's in Magdalene Street are crazy.  Vans jam up the roads unloading their wares, while the morning buses which cannot get through, block the roads causing queues in both directions.  It won't be long before there's an accident or a pedestrian is killed.

At the top of Benedict Street this morning there were about 10 cars parked on double yellow lines, one clearly on a sign that stated keep clear, that was the entrance and exit to a car park.  Only one of these cars had a valid disabled badge and worryingly not this one whose driver was either blind or terminally stupid.

Around a month ago I saw a middle-aged woman walking with sticks quite rightly tearing a strip off a man who had selfishly parked his posh 4x4 in one of the disabled spaces outside of the Co-op in the high street and who was nonchalantly reading a paper.  Although the lady was obviously more in need of this space than he was, she had found herself having to park elsewhere in order to nip (if that's the right word) into the supermarket.

Three days ago I noticed this red Nissan car parked in the very same disabled spot, with a handwritten notice taped onto the front windscreen.  Now I don't know how long ago the car has been parked there nor exactly when the sign was written, but 72 hours later the car is still there.  No effort has been made to move it, and although a Police Car was parked 2 cars behind it, it appears that nothing at all is being done about it.  Surely the police have the authority to get the vehicle towed away - it doesn't even have a parking ticket on it, even though it has quite clearly contravened parking laws; it doesn't take a fool to realise it has either been abandoned or stolen.  I expect even the driver of the car parked on the keep clear sign down in Benedict Street would be bright enough to work that out. 

Maybe, of course this car is in fact a long term art installation, strategically placed so that visitors to our wonderful town can joyfully watch as it rusts and deteriorates over the coming weeks, months or probably years!  That's the sort of thing people appreciate these days, but alas I'm just too old fashioned and set in my ways to get it.