People distressed by receiving parking tickets, such as Mike Gurney, owner of GlowZone (Letters, July 8), also seem to be the same people who believe parking regulations don't apply to them.

But what concerned me more was when The Argus deliberately encouraged parking attendants to "ticket" its vehicle, which was illegally parked at various locations across the city (The Argus, May 21). And this was the point - it was illegally parked.

It reminded me of this joke: A tourist asks a resident what the double-yellow lines at the edge of the road are for? The resident replies that they show how many lines of cars you can park there.

There are obviously circumstances when parking on double-yellow lines should be sanctioned and GlowZone would, no doubt, benefit from relaxed rules.

However, across the city, the problem is exacerbated by those who flout parking laws.

I live near Preston Circus and, without fail, on a daily basis and almost continuously, I see cars and vans parked illegally on double-yellow lines, on either side of Preston Road, north of the circus.

People stop there to withdraw money from Barclays' cashpoint, get a sandwich (and then sit there to eat it), post letters and buy papers.

They prevent buses from getting to the bus stop, forcing them to block the inside lane, which reduces the capacity of one of the city's main thoroughfares by half.

All those waiting in traffic back by St Peters Church are delayed because someone thinks the law doesn't apply to them and probably really needed to get that paper/ sarnie/cash.

As Charles Holcombe wrote (Letters July 8), we need to become a city of cyclists. It benefits everyone's health and would be the solution to our city's transport problems.

We should aim to be good pedestrians, cyclists and motorists. We all live, work and play in this city we call home and, as such, all need to be responsible towards our fellow Brightonians.

-Jerry Swift, Brighton