IF it wasn’t bad enough that a parking ticket was given to a NHS blood transfusion vehicle (The Press, April 20) while collecting blood from donors, the council parking services manager said: “Yellow lines are in place for a reason and parking on them can impede and obstruct traffic.

“It can also be a safety issue to park on these, as in some cases it could block the line of sight for other vehicles, which could result in an accident.”

This vehicle was parked on a single yellow line, in a back street. What about the dozens of cars in the city that park on double yellow lines, disabled cars of course, but surely the same statement could be made of them?

So why not improve the city of such car parking in our often very narrow streets.

On the centre pages of the same issue, we are told “York is to become the UK’s first Human Rights City”.

So could we develop this human rights theme, and make life in the city centre better for all of us?

The council could offer a disabled car park only just outside the city centre, say near the railway station, and then offer an electric city shuttle bus taxi to get disabled drivers to their destination in the city.

This would also help towards getting our traffic pollution problem down in York centre, and York could then indeed broadcast to the world that human rights is alive and well in our city.

Stuart Wilson, Vesper Drive, Acomb, York