Saturday 13 December 2008

for the want of a space the business was lost.

So today was "break the back of the christmas shopping day" in our valley which meant that although the weather was lousy everybody was out in their cars. This in turn meant that although we went to Hebden Bridge to begin shopping and "shop local" we were unable to find a parking space and so went to Halifax. I guess we might have spent a few hundred pounds in Hebden so for the want of a car parking space...
Parking is such an emotive issue, if we provided enoguh parking for peak weekends like this no doubt ruin the town.
And yet...
Plenty of parking in Halifax though because we stayed 13 minutes over four hours it cost not £3.50 but £10.00.
Next time we may be tempted to shop on line.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

You obviously didn't know about the free car parking around town centre in December and January then?