I WOULD be very interested to find out the opinions of others regarding the removal of the adhesive from the pay-and-display parking tickets for the Concourse car park in West Kirby.

The car park is heavily patrolled and the penalty for overstaying the time shown on the ticket, even by just three minutes is enormous.

This is a very effective deterrent, and I often end up paying for a lot more time than I need because of it.

I also find I am often forced to pay for more time than I need because of the machine’s inability to give change, a surprising omission when compared to other vending machines, especially when change is constantly been fed in to them.

Judging from the number of tickets with hours remaining that used to be stuck to the side of the machines, I am not the only person having this experience.

Am I being a paranoid lunatic to think that this is the reason that the adhesive backing has been removed from the tickets?

I can't think of any other reason.

It can't be because of the cost of glue, as the removal of the adhesive has also removed the ability to advertise on the adhesive bit, the income from that being enough to sustain a sticky ticket system, I’m sure.

I just wish that the council would use this creativity and ingenuity to help us rather than rip us off.

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