Comedy on Channel 5

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Mike Sales
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Comedy on Channel 5

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Looks as if there is a laugh coming on Channel 5 in a minute.
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Not very funny, I'm already fed up with the whinging. These people, and the programme makers think that enforcement and wardens are the problem, not too many cars.
Aberystwyth tried to do without parking regulation. The result was, predictably, much worse congestion and disputes with other drivers.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/road-and-rail-transport/8642177/Aberystwyth-The-town-without-traffic-wardens.html
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The thread title is misleading - I thought it was a documentary about British Cycling.
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Long ago I was involved in the adminstration of a government building parking facility, for which there was approximately N spaced for 2N employees wishing to park there. This was a very revealing instrument that would have been of great value to any sociologist or psychologist! Many and queer were the behaviours of the would-be parkers, as they invoked various arcane and unrecorded social rules as to why they deserved a parking spot more than did that oik with the Ford Escort.

There were oily approaches and flattery. There were hissy-fits as well as week-long pouts & sulks. There were rants and abject pleadings.There were even jousts in the car park, as A tried to get to the last remaining of the three "first-come" parking spots before B and perhaps even a latecoming but hopeful C.

The effects of having the power to allocate these parking spots was also somewhat revealing of my own character flaws. Suffice it to say, I told myself never to become a politician or other really pwerful fellow as it would all end very badly. I began to see all those parkers as mere fools and ciphers, ripe for my entertainment.

Cugel, still shamefaced about it really.
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It was much the same with parking on police premises. More drivers than spaces. This led to ridiculous double parking, abuse of the disabled bays etc, the sort of thing an officer might themselves be called to deal with should it have occurred in public.

Even more ridiculous, 2/3 of the cars there were desk drivers who contributed zero to the delivery of front line services, so had no real reason to be working from a designated station anyway, except facilities thought it would be sensible to post them there. Nearly all of them lived in the same town and only drove a mile or two to work, whereas I live 11 miles out of town in a village and cycled in daily. It was simultaneously sad, pathetic, revealing, and all rather needless, and I'm glad I was able to avoid it entirely.

There should be a tax on workplace parking, or something done to discourage the bone idle lazy from clogging up the roads and pollution the air when they drive 2 or 3 miles to work. Alas, I'm as aware as the rest of you that this would require political will, and politicians aren't likely to alienate the car driving masses in case they suddenly don't get re-elected to their cushy billets.
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Parking is a big elephant in the room, in fact many drivers have four spaces and can always find room at home, at work, at Shopping Heaven, at the gym club :?

There was a gr8 cartoon of a lad who has parked in a ladies space, the parking warder looked down the lads yfronts and couldnae see much at all, 'I think I may let you park here', she said :wink:
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Cyril Haearn wrote:Parking is a big elephant in the room, in fact many drivers have four spaces and can always find room at home, at work, at Shopping Heaven, at the gym club :?


But they need them! And they hate paying.
It's the same the whole world over
It's the poor what gets the blame
It's the rich what gets the pleasure
Isn't it a blooming shame?
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