Madeira Drive is one of the widest streets in Brighton - even double-parking wouldn't block the road - yet National Car Parks' parking attendants issued 5,803 parking tickets there in 2005 (The Argus, March 23).

It would make more sense to allow free parking for two or even four hours in that road, as Eastbourne does along its seafront.

Then, perhaps, parking attendants could do a proper job and walk the narrow streets off Lewes Road, where double parking, parking on pavements, double yellow lines and on street corners appears to be the norm.

-Mrs J James, Hollingdean