Parking incentive

When a vandal smashed the four parking meters in the small Welsh town of Cardigan, the locals could hardly have believed the results. With the town council unable to afford the cost of repairing the meters, local shops reported a massive upswing in trade ranging from 20-50%. Unfortunately for the town’s shop owners, the sales boom was short-lived and ended as the local authorities put other parking measures into effect.
December 14, 2015 Read time: 1 min
When a vandal smashed the four parking meters in the small Welsh town of Cardigan, the locals could hardly have believed the results. With the town council unable to afford the cost of repairing the meters, local shops reported a massive upswing in trade ranging from 20-50%. Unfortunately for the town’s shop owners, the sales boom was short-lived and ended as the local authorities put other parking measures into effect.

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