Sadly I missed the beginning but it was a v interesting program .., High Court cases take an age so I'm hoping that we will hear the result in time. Maybe the chap may find his way here - that woudl be good.
I think the correct signage is a 'sign' of lazy Councils. They have a Legal obligation to ensure they are correct and in law if it isn't correct it may as well not exist - end of and any COurt failing to appreciate that ought to be hauled over the coals !
I do think that Courts too must get frustrated when cases are brought but fail to prove their case in point and so they cannot rule in 'favour' of the 'injured party'. Not saying that this happened here as we only got very limited info on it but something went wrong.
It would be good to see fair play with parking it is a mine field. I think streets that now-a-days have lots of yellow lines and just a few parking spaces is shameful. Why do we need the yellow lines when society needs more parking ? It has to be with control of social behaviours which IMHO is NOT something for Councils to be toying with. They rarely include bicycle parking anywhere, and limited spaces for m/bikes too. Seems a poor show really when there is such a high demand! I get fed up of empty permit holder spaces and I want to be 5 minutes !
I wonder if we didn't make all parking free other than in car-parks where it was a minimal fee and much better and fairer wardens to deal with the 'problems'.
There are many many places outside of major urban areas where there are no charges ... and people one the whole are sensible. Why do we have such little faith in society that it
'will' all "go to carnage if we let people do what they need" ?
Isn't it time that people come first, than the 'authorities wishes' ?
Why in shopping areas do we segregate out two areas of society, disabled and 'families', what about all the other groups like 'working people' and so on ... why not just have 'wide bays' and standard bays and no segregation ? Why do we need so much charging and all the admin overheads ?