http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Eric Pickles and the "war on Drivers" en Mon, 18 May 2026 21:41:54 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14475#post-182577 Fri, 06 Mar 2015 15:00:49 +0000 Dave 182577@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>This tickled a memory and it turns out I wrote about this 18 months ago: <a href="http://mccraw.co.uk/pickles-attacks-your-parking-income/" rel="nofollow">http://mccraw.co.uk/pickles-attacks-your-parking-income/</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14475#post-182576 Fri, 06 Mar 2015 14:57:32 +0000 Dave 182576@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Where does such "profit" money go (presumably it's not returned to taxpayers in some other way, as that would hardly be a profit by any reasonable definition)? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14475#post-182572 Fri, 06 Mar 2015 14:21:43 +0000 acsimpson 182572@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>By law, any surplus councils make from parking fees must be ploughed back into transport projects such as road improvements.</em></p> <p>So they can't allocate the funds out of transport but they can charge more than enough to cover the warden's wage. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14475#post-182571 Fri, 06 Mar 2015 13:43:06 +0000 neddie 182571@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>guidance for councils reminding them they are banned from "using parking to generate profit"</em></p> <p>So a Tory MP actually wants a socialist 'not for profit' system in place.</p> <p>Why shouldn't councils make a profit, the same as any other business? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14475#post-182570 Fri, 06 Mar 2015 13:25:51 +0000 Dave 182570@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Weird - they want to make parking enforcement fairer so they are banning the use of CCTV?</p> <p>If there's one thing that nobody has accused our bus lane cameras of, it's bias or corruption. They just record footage of what is going on.</p> <p>I've often thought that a major improvement to parking enforcement would be to use cameras everywhere (i.e. the parking attendant just drives past on the moped with a camera, or stops and takes a photo of your outdated ticket - none of this hiding out and trying to write a ticket before the driver sees, all done above board based on footage). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14475#post-182569 Fri, 06 Mar 2015 12:55:30 +0000 paddyirish 182569@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31759767">Ugh</a></p> <p>I can not put into words how little respect I have for this "man". </p>