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Topic: Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Strange New Road Markings on Uxbridge Road
Posted by: Chris Veasey
Date/Time: 05/02/10 22:43:00

Not quite as simple as that. The major change in the Thatcher era, at least in London, was to relieve the Police of responsibility for parking ennforcement other than on the Strategic Road Network, entailing decriminalisation of non-SRN parking infringement. In London the non-SRN enforcement powers and duty were IMPOSED on the London local authorities (ie the boroughs plus the two so-called 'cities'). This went hand-in-hand with the power  -  and encouragement  -  to the LLAs to contract out the actual enforcement to private firms.

Take it from me, the parking enforcement system in London before that was a sick joke, with the Police exercisibnt thgeir right to extort money from the LLAs to pay for an enforcement service they largely failed to deliver, other than when and where it suited them to. And there was nothing the LA's could do about it except fume.

So it's not just cost to be considered, it's effectiveness (as well as of course cost-effectiveness). The old-style Police Traffic Warden enforcement system was supremely ineffective in practice.

Nor was it always entirely the Polices' fault  - freezing Traffic Warden recruitment was a favourite tool of the Westminster govt (through the Secretary of State) at times of economic crisis (endemic in the 1970s).

And to be fair to the Met Police, it was their own in-depth Inquiry into the Traffic Warden Service (report published circa 1987) which started the ball rolling towards that eventual change.


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Strange New Road Markings on Uxbridge Road02/02/10 00:06:00 Darren Halford
   Re:Strange New Road Markings on Uxbridge Road02/02/10 07:18:00 J Smith
      Re:Re:Strange New Road Markings on Uxbridge Road02/02/10 14:35:00 Darren Halford
   Re:Strange New Road Markings on Uxbridge Road02/02/10 23:10:00 Tony Price
      Re:Re:Strange New Road Markings on Uxbridge Road03/02/10 12:50:00 Philippa Bond
         Re:Re:Re:Strange New Road Markings on Uxbridge Road03/02/10 13:07:00 Tony Price
   Re:Strange New Road Markings on Uxbridge Road03/02/10 18:25:00 Editor
      Re:Re:Strange New Road Markings on Uxbridge Road03/02/10 20:43:00 Chris Veasey
         Re:Re:Re:Strange New Road Markings on Uxbridge Road03/02/10 21:01:00 Editor
            Re:Re:Re:Re:Strange New Road Markings on Uxbridge Road03/02/10 21:33:00 Chris Veasey
            Re:Re:Re:Re:Strange New Road Markings on Uxbridge Road04/02/10 10:51:00 Chris Veasey
               Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Strange New Road Markings on Uxbridge Road04/02/10 14:52:00 Editor
                  Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Strange New Road Markings on Uxbridge Road04/02/10 22:31:00 Darren Halford
                     Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Strange New Road Markings on Uxbridge Road04/02/10 22:59:00 Chris Veasey
                        Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Strange New Road Markings on Uxbridge Road05/02/10 00:28:00 Darren Halford
                           Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Strange New Road Markings on Uxbridge Road05/02/10 09:53:00 Richard Jennings
                              Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Strange New Road Markings on Uxbridge Road05/02/10 13:40:00 Darren Halford
                              Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Strange New Road Markings on Uxbridge Road05/02/10 13:40:00 Darren Halford
                                 Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Strange New Road Markings on Uxbridge Road05/02/10 14:18:00 Alan Brainsby
                                    Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Strange New Road Markings on Uxbridge Road05/02/10 20:47:00 Darren Halford
                                       Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Strange New Road Markings on Uxbridge Road05/02/10 22:43:00 Chris Veasey
                                          Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Strange New Road Markings on Uxbridge Road06/02/10 09:10:00 Arthur Breens
                                             Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Strange New Road Markings on Uxbridge Road06/02/10 12:37:00 Alan Brainsby
                              Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Strange New Road Markings on Uxbridge Road08/02/10 09:29:00 Chris Veasey

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