Parking

Today i watched a traffic warden outside of my work place. The warden checked his watch like he was going to get a big reward and was on the lookout for anyone ready to enter the car.

When he saw the time was right he created the valid ticket that single handily pisses people off and whacked it on the screen.

Now this car must have been there for an hour which is why it was issued. The car is outside a place that cares for the elderly yet that parking space must only be held for an hour.

I got hit with a ticket several months ago on the street i live and tried to fight the case. What annoys me is the councils disclaimer towards why they have parking time restrictions. The council claim that this allows the flow of traffic to flow through and that it benefits us all.

Now to some degree i believe some of that is true. If people parked there and never moved, I guess we could never get a space. However it seems that everywhere you go there is no where to park "free" because there are to many yellow lines or over priced car parks.

What ever happened to just parking where you live!? I cant park at mine because there are no spaces so I'm only lucky if i find a space 4 blocks away from mine.

Something needs to be done but with the councils mind and useless actions, i see little point to shout my opinion across. I was once told that if you did not voice yourself then nothing would be done. That's all fine if you didn't have a bunch of over paid mindless old fools who would rather do things there way than to listen to what the people really want.

Maybe this is my way of rebelling to the system, but it has to be said that those with power do fuck all when it comes to helping the real issues. I laughed when they invested money in helping the homeless etc. About 38% of the population give a toss about them, the rest want whats best for the community. How about helping the middle people for once rather than just the poor.

In robin hood, the rich was well off, the poor were poor but got rich by taking the rich on. The middle stayed the same and to this day moaned like i do.

Like anyone can actually afford to pay off a parking ticket these days as well!