Comments on: Traffic warden alerts by text message are back http://www.stonecothillnews.co.uk/2009/10/20/traffic-warden-alerts-by-text-message-are-back/ News and events from Stonecot Hill, Sutton, Surrey Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:36:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Adrian Short http://www.stonecothillnews.co.uk/2009/10/20/traffic-warden-alerts-by-text-message-are-back/comment-page-1/#comment-159 Adrian Short Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:51:27 +0000 http://www.stonecothillnews.co.uk/?p=167#comment-159 I'm with you when it comes to dangerously parked cars. However, the street environment here is about as hostile to pedestrians by design as it's possible to be, including legalised pavement parking and numerous desire line obstructions. There are a couple of wardens possessed with rare common sense but most seem happy to hand out tickets for the fun of it, including a very aggressive group of CCTV operators. The CCTV camera isn't even signed that it's anything to do with TfL or issues tickets. Two years ago 2000 local people signed a petition asking TfL to review the parking/loading bay arrangements here to better balance the interests of everyone. They declined on the grounds of insufficient funding to run a consultation but have happily been enforcing the regulations and raking in revenue ever since. When TfL make sensible parking arrangements here in consultation with local people I'll be the first to support them enforcing them against anyone parking unreasonably. I’m with you when it comes to dangerously parked cars. However, the street environment here is about as hostile to pedestrians by design as it’s possible to be, including legalised pavement parking and numerous desire line obstructions.

There are a couple of wardens possessed with rare common sense but most seem happy to hand out tickets for the fun of it, including a very aggressive group of CCTV operators. The CCTV camera isn’t even signed that it’s anything to do with TfL or issues tickets.

Two years ago 2000 local people signed a petition asking TfL to review the parking/loading bay arrangements here to better balance the interests of everyone. They declined on the grounds of insufficient funding to run a consultation but have happily been enforcing the regulations and raking in revenue ever since.

When TfL make sensible parking arrangements here in consultation with local people I’ll be the first to support them enforcing them against anyone parking unreasonably.

]]> By: Mark http://www.stonecothillnews.co.uk/2009/10/20/traffic-warden-alerts-by-text-message-are-back/comment-page-1/#comment-158 Mark Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:39:37 +0000 http://www.stonecothillnews.co.uk/?p=167#comment-158 Interesting. Any chance you could send those wardens our way? we are overrun with illegally/dangerously parked cars, but the parking wardens are too lazy to do anything about it :( Interesting. Any chance you could send those wardens our way? we are overrun with illegally/dangerously parked cars, but the parking wardens are too lazy to do anything about it :(

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