If Brighton and Hove City Council wishes to enforce strict parking regulations - and I have no objection to this - then the least it could do is to ensure those restrictions are clear and unambiguous.

This is by no means the case.

For example, how many people really know what a single yellow line means? I had previously believed this to mean no parking Monday to Saturday, 8am to 6pm.

On reading the Highway Code, this turns out not to be the case. Single yellow lines denote, in fact, a restriction between certain hours, which have to be displayed on a nearby sign.

This is not the case in Brighton and Hove, where several single yellow lines exist without such indication.

More confusingly, a single yellow line on one side of the road alongside the Metropole exhibition halls is signed "Loading only" (at all times) yet I have never been ticketed for parking there in the evening, although it is obvious I am not loading.

If single yellow lines cannot mean the same everywhere (surely this isn't too much to ask?), at least their variable restrictions should be clearly indicated.

I have the feeling that in planning this new enforcement regime, the council concentrated too hard on the sanctions and neglected to look at how to make it easier for people to avoid them and park legally.

-Alexi Cawson, Exeter Street, Brighton