PAVED PARADISE

they paved paradise
& put up a parking lot

thats privately owned with no revenue going to local services / with a payment system owned by another private company with no customer service & accessible only by smart phone with randomly increasing & inconsistent charges / next to a train station run by another private company that cant help with any carpark issues & is relentlessly bailed out by the government via the public purse

they paved paradise
& put up a parking lot

with no discounts for disabled visitors /  next to an understaffed hospital with an overworked a&e that then gets shut down for over priced 'affordable' rabbit hutch flats amid promises of more local health services at some unspecified point in the future / virgin anyone ?

they paved paradise
& put up a parking lot

that was reasonably priced / run by the local authority / handy for commuters / then sold it to a private company who shut it & left it shut for maybe ten years & counting / now its fly-tip heaven

they paved paradise
& put up a parking lot

which is free but is part of an ever sprawling shopping mall & retail park / all privately owned / no freedom of speech or protest there / a grotesque monument to our plastic cravings & msg jonesing / a temple of mammon with as many as three dozen  roundabouts but nothing in the way of pedestrian paths

they paved paradise
& put up a parking lot

for hgvs on green belt land by deciding it was brown belt land because in 1954 there was partial planning permission for a petrol station / never built / presumably because it was green belt land

they paved paradise
& put up a parking lot

which alan partridge says is 'a measure which would actually alleviate congestion on the outskirts of paradise / something which joni singularly fails to point out / perhaps because it doesnt quite fit in it her blinkered view of the world'

they paved paradise
& put up a fucking lot

from digitalspy.com