Sir - Now that we are entering the festive season, is it not time that Dublin Corporation stopped encouraging the citizenry to drink and drive? For that is the effect of their policy on clamping in office areas at weekends.
Many office workers, who have left their cars fully paid up at parking meters on Friday afternoon, are quite likely to round the week off with a drink or two with friends. If, for any number of reasons, they drink more than the legal driving limit, they have two choices. They can take a chance and drive home. Or they can be good citizens, leave their cars, and find some other means of transport. Good citizenship is not a good idea, as the driver will return the following morning to find that the car, probably the only one parked in the street, has a clamp on it.
There is no reason (other than sheer greed) for the Corporation to make free parking in office areas illegal on a Saturday morning when there is no congestion. In the coming few weeks it is going to be more difficult than ever to get a taxi, so how about it, Corporation? - Yours, etc.,
Brian Crowley, Rathmines, Dublin 6.