YOUR VIEWS

I read your recent letter regarding “horror” over priority in a public car park. The majority of municipalities in Majorca are basically one town entities, where the officials can walk to the ajuntament (town council). Calvia is an exception in that its seat, is quite small considering the size of the territory and the number of associated villages.

This means that when the “servants” come to work, the majority, unlike most of Majorca have to drive, as the bus schedules would make regular meetings difficult to attend. Car pooling is out, in that the 24 members of the council are scattered al over the map. One only has to look at a town plan of Calvia, or attended an event there, that parking is a problem.

So if I am the master and these people are my servants, I would rather have them working for me, then cruising the outskirts of the town looking for a parking place, and having to walk to the city hall.

In the many times I have been in Calvia, I have never found a parking place closer then 500m from my destination. In the “real world” employers often provide parking places for employees because, in doing so, efficiency and employee attitude is improved.

Speaking of special parking, my only complaint is that the current head of PP who has no position in government, has an inherited parking space reserved for members of the regional parliament.

As he is a PP employee, then it is PP´s responsibility to accommodate his car, when he chooses not to take the train from Marratxi.

Richard Goss
Porreres