The Keswick Council apparently think that they cannot have too much of a good thing, but the ratepayers may think quite the opposite. Car parks are good things in their way, and a town like Keswick must have sufficient accommodation for it's ever increasing motor traffic. But when there is sufficient accommodation provided by ratepayers the council are scarcely justified in entering into competition with them.

 

    Keswick has always treated motorists very kindly. They have allowed them to use the Market Square free, and stretched the meaning of "a reasonable period" considerably. The great argument in favour of this has been that to compel motorists to park their cars in a garage or in a private parking ground would drive them away from Keswick, and their trade with them.

 

    Now that there are two unofficial attendants on the Market Square, it is doubtful that any motorist goes away without "tipping" at least as much as he would have paid in a garage or parking ground. So the argument does not hold water any longer, and in view of the congestion of Main Street on the busy days in the season the time has arrived for the council to consider whether they ought not to restrict the use of the Market Square as a car park. If it does it will only be coming into line with almost every other place in the Kingdom. And as there is ample accommodation for cars already, there is no need for the Council to add to it.