proposing the scheme be delayed as he has “reservations about the amount of money parking charges would actually generate in these difficult times”.
They noted that the scheme, to charge drivers between 80p and £4 to use 17 car parks in Airdrie and Coatbridge plus a further 34 across North Lanarkshire, was only passed in January as a result of the Labour leader’s casting vote.Depute SNP leader Jordan Linden said: “I welcome that the council leader has seen the error of his ways and will seek to delay the implementation of the parking charges scheme, which he himself pushed through.“Now it’s high time he and his administration did the right thing and parked this idea once and for all.”Party colleague William Goldie, the group’s transport.
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