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Make money fast! or Who'd be a traffic warden?
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A few years ago the decision was taken to allow private contractors to enforce parking regulations.
The rationale behind this was that instead of the councils having to directly employ wardens private companies would do this, issue the tickets etc, and whilst they take a cut of the fine revenue the council no longer has to pay wages, sick pay etc.
This seems to have worked very well for the councils, and the parking enforcement companies have done very well from it also.
When the sorry looking chap in his grey Renualt Laguna edged forward into my rear wheel- putting 3/4th of his vehicle into the ASL box to do so, I had a thought.
Well, a number of thoughts- number one was that RN02 MJV was a wanker, but number two was that if ASL enforcement was allowed to be done by private companies what a fun and profitable game we might have.
I for one would happily set off to work half an hour early, stop be a junction with an ASL that no-one observes, and start merrily ticketing the motorists who are too blind or stupid to work out where they should stop.
In half an hour I think I'd have earned myself £100+ and worked off a lot of pent up anger at inconsiderate driving.
That would be a decent living wage in of itself, all for getting out of bed a little earlier.
The flip-side to this would be that private companies could start to enforce things like RLJing I suppose, but for a brief while we might rule the junctions.