I WAS astonished to read the comment in a letter by Jean Jones that councillors in Darlington can park in town all day for only 50p (HAS, Jan 28).

There are hundreds of workers, often low paid, travelling into Darlington every day who have no choice but to pay £4 for a parking space. The cost of £20-per-week is a large deduction from a small wage.

Many councils, including Stockton, offer reduced rate season tickets for town centre car parks. Darlington does not.

Without this army of commuters the town could not function, yet no one is even vaguely interested in providing these people with reasonable parking prices.

Geoff Carr, Aycliffe Village.