Traffic wardens and parking tickets
It appears as if the formal backlash against ridiculous parking tickets and parking policies has started.
The BBC reports the following:
The 20% of tickets rescinded on appeal doesn't include those which people have paid without challenging them. It also seems ridiculous that ticketing has essentially been privatised, with incentives given to wardens who issue more tickets, and targets for the number of tickets issued by each warden.
Westminster Council made over £100 million in 2004/5 from 817,000 tickets. See Ticketbusters.
There are more and more media stories about petty councils and wardens issuing tickets where someone has parked an inch outside a bay, or where signage is incorrect, or where wardens have been "lying in wait".
In related news, MPs have shown how out of touch they are with reality by bein "astonished" that, while 53 per cent of households had access to a garage, only 24 per cent used them. See link. People are apparently either lazy or have too large cars. Nothing to do with having a choice or wanting to use their garage, on their land, for what they want. We're getting closer and closer to a nanny state.
Local councils (link) have shown them to be as petty minded as ever - surely these people are meant to be there for the public good...
The BBC reports the following:
- MPs want to overhaul the parking rules, especially as councils are using parking fines as a source of income, and 20% of tickets are rescinded after being issued incorrectly.
- Traffic wardens in Bury are targetting and ticketting mourners at funerals, and have even issued the hearse with a ticket: Link.
- Traffic wardens are being issued with bugs to record abuse to be used in court: Link, a move which would not be necessary with sensible parking regulation enforcement.
- a pub landlord in Torbay has banned traffic wardens from all his pubs as they are "killing business": Link.
- residents in Corwen are up in armas about parkiing charges in their street: Link.
The 20% of tickets rescinded on appeal doesn't include those which people have paid without challenging them. It also seems ridiculous that ticketing has essentially been privatised, with incentives given to wardens who issue more tickets, and targets for the number of tickets issued by each warden.
Westminster Council made over £100 million in 2004/5 from 817,000 tickets. See Ticketbusters.
There are more and more media stories about petty councils and wardens issuing tickets where someone has parked an inch outside a bay, or where signage is incorrect, or where wardens have been "lying in wait".
In related news, MPs have shown how out of touch they are with reality by bein "astonished" that, while 53 per cent of households had access to a garage, only 24 per cent used them. See link. People are apparently either lazy or have too large cars. Nothing to do with having a choice or wanting to use their garage, on their land, for what they want. We're getting closer and closer to a nanny state.
Local councils (link) have shown them to be as petty minded as ever - surely these people are meant to be there for the public good...
posted by Jonathan | Thursday, June 22, 2006
1 Comments:
I was right with you brother, I really was, right up until you "Daily Mail-ed" your rant with the use of the words (closer and closer to a nanny state).
Sack and disembowell all politicians (may need a whaling fleet to do Prescott)and let Chantal from Big Brother run the country - at least I can bare to look at her (bare if it could be arranged).
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