It will not in itself add a single extra parking place. The people of the town have every reason to feel uneasy. So have the people of every other Limerick town. History shows that once the system arrives in the county then, as sure as night follows day, it will spread elsewhere. Next stop Kilmallock.
Discs are a shoddy substitute for a fair, efficient and effective system of local taxation.
But when government, national or local, think less in terms of such a strategy and more in terms of money then we are all at the top of a slippery slope leading to ever more draconian measures. Clamping, impounding and confiscation. Limerick business sector MEET Peter, the cat on a cold aluminium roof. Peter is an upwardly-mobile denizen of Limerick flatland. His haunts aren't the low-down back lanes and basements usually frequented by city centre felines.