My wife has recently been offered a new job in Weymouth town centre.

After weighing up her travel options she decided that an annual council car park season ticket was her best choice.

She took into account the ever-spiralling bus fares and the completely unacceptable overcrowding on the buses at peak times (First, take note).

The cost of these season tickets which run from April 1 is currently £535 or just over £10 per week.

Not unreasonably we expected that there would be a pro-rata pricing arrangement to cover the seven months remaining of the period.

Not a bit of it. Faced with paying the full amount (which works out to over £19 per week) she will be adding to the congestion by parking where she can on the street until April.

Furthermore the council is missing out on the revenue we were quite happy to pay.

Typical of this short-sighted, money-grabbing administration with which we are lumbered.

Simon Palmer, St Georges Road, Portland