Any chance of some leniency?

I WAS not remotely surprised to read (Daily Post, March 11) about the number of parking tickets which are cancelled in Wirral and I wouldn’t mind betting that the figures are similar for Liverpool.

Parking attendants, as I believe we are supposed to call them these days, seem to show very little regard for whether a car is actually illegally parked or not.

Instead they err on the side of over-zealousness when issuing tickets, thus resulting in such a high number of successful appeals.

In my own experience, I have received tickets when I have clearly displayed pay and display tickets still within their paid-for time period, and also when I have parked on broken yellow lines which are no longer visible and therefore unenforceable.

On each of these occasions, I have had my tickets overturned, but what happens to those who unlike me, do not feel they can appeal? More money for old rope. I am glad that the council sees sense so frequently, and only wish the parking vultures would too.

Jane Freeman, Liverpool, via email

Pontoon eyesore

IT’S almost five years that Mersey Ferries have been without a new landing stage at the Pier Head, and still Peel Holdings shows little interest in replacing the pontoon.

Is this because there would be no financial gain as in luxury waterfront apartments etc?

Any campaign or petitions should be aimed at Peel Holdings as to when the Mersey Ferries get a new landing stage, and not waste time and money campaigning to bring back the Royal Iris and other ships from the past. They’re not ships any more, they are relics, and would be too costly to restore.

After the transformation of Liverpool’s waterfront, the Pier Head – with this eyesore – will remain unfinished.

K A Turpin, Crosby

Extend Merseyrail

JOHN ARMSTRONG is right to ask, “Where's Liverpool's tram money gone?” (Daily Post, March 11) and to highlight the inequity of the distribution of government cash between Manchester and Liverpool. I fully support his view.

However, on the basis that the Liverpool Tram Scheme has now been on the agenda for a number of years, without success, perhaps it is now time for the transport planners and Merseytravel to consider that this particular scheme is now dead and switch its efforts into seeking government funding to seriously upgrade and develop the Merseyrail network?

The existing structure is fine as far as it goes but surely now is the time to consider a major development of the network by using the excellent Victorian legacy of infrastructure which is currently semi-derelict.

I refer, amongst others, to the Wapping and Waterloo tunnels and the Liverpool Loop Line which, if developed, would provide regeneration to the north of the city and service the new Liverpool and Everton stadia as well as providing a direct link to the airport.

Together with additional stations throughout Wirral this development would, I feel, provide a facility to meet the transport demands of the modern 24-hour, 21st-century city we aspire to be.

George Gee, via email