Parking in Dundee city centre is in the news again, with shopkeepers, entrepreneurs and the director of a letting agency pointing out stark truths.

Those are: if you want a place to thrive, make it easy for people to get here, encourage them to stay a long time and make it cheap.

How much simpler can it be? If you want custom, be welcoming to customers.

If we have Adam Hutcheson, director at Westport Property – who speaks to prospective clients every day, asking what they need to succeed – giving an opinion, it makes sense to listen.

If Jonathon Clark, boss of Clarkies, and entrepreneur Tom McIver talk about parking in the city, then, again, we should be listening.

These people are experts on Dundee visitor numbers, who live with the effects of high parking charges discouraging customers.

They know, through real experience in this city, what........

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