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Elm Street parking is a dangerous idea

Editor’s note: The following letter is in response to the article titled “Parking trial may have made Elm less safe, staff say.” Of course complaints are down. People gave up complaining because these fell on the deaf ears of council.
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For this reader, allowing parking on Elm Street is a dangerous idea. File photo
Editor’s note: The following letter is in response to the article titled “Parking trial may have made Elm less safe, staff say.”

Of course complaints are down. People gave up complaining because these fell on the deaf ears of council. For two years in a row, council also didn’t hear the advice from staff when they were told it was a bad idea and why.

There have been three accidents on Elm Street in that time. How many were there before the meters were installed?

Stand on the corner for a few minutes, especially when there is a train crossing, and watch the gridlock and pedestrians walking between cars.

I feel sorry for tourists trying to drive through the area.

Get them out of there before someone is seriously injured.

Phil Rowe
Sudbury