Parking meters in Glastonbury High Street?

I was in Glastonbury town centre today for the weekly market and people were talking about the possibility of parking meters being installed in the high street in the near future.  Does anyone know if there is any truth in the rumour, and if so what do you think of the idea?

I know that the high street can get congested with at certain times some people parking two deep, particularly towards the bottom of town where the drivers can often be observed nipping across the road to use the cash machines and with large buses etc passing down the high street this can be quite dangerous, but I don't know what effect parking meters will have on this situation even if it does generate more revenue for the council.

In my opinion the best thing to do would be either a) pedestrianise the high street, except to delivery vans, buses, emergency vehicles and disabled badge holders OR b) stop the huge First buses driving up and down it as they seem to have scant regard for other road users or maybe c) have a one way system through the high street, making it safer for everyone!

As an aside to this, one of the market traders has had the wing mirror of his van knocked off twice in Glastonbury recently and he told me that the bus drivers actually boast about doing this in the local cafes as they dislike the market being in Magdalene Street on Tuesday mornings, and this is just jolly japes for them, and a bit of a laugh.  I don't know how true this is but his wing mirror had definitely just been knocked off by a bus when he told me this story and he wasn't best pleased about it.  Having said that I do think the market is held in a ridiculous place as (especially) first thing in the morning the roads are chaotic.  The pavements are narrow, the barriers obtrusive and the vans that unload in the street snarl up the road.  Surely as it's only on for one morning a week it could be moved into the Abbey car park or back into its old spot in St. John's car park.

Photo by Peter Bellis