East St residents appeal for removal of paid parking

The paid parking lot. Residents are parking alongside instead of inside.

Residents of East Street are appealing to the authorities to discontinue the paid parking lot recently set up by the city and for the removal of the steel barricades that were erected.

In a letter in Saturday’s edition of Stabroek News, 100 residents pleaded for President David Granger to have the paid parking lot ended. It appears that the paid parking is a cost recovery