Park Anywhere Lights

 

When did a cars ‘Hazard Warning’ lights, you know that big red button that you push to make all your indicator lights flash at once to declare that your car may be a ‘Hazard’  i.e  disabled in someway so that it cannot be moved or moved safely, but the position may prove injurious to other traffic and could potentially cause an accident if other road users were not made aware.

Change to become.

I know I’m parked; on double yellow lines,  zig-zags, a blind corner, double parked, but I’m only popping in for a few minutes; to pick up my dry cleaning, buy some milk, use the cash point etc. and my errand is so much more important than your safety and rules are for other people aren’t they and if only they would create more parking spaces closer to the shops then I wouldn’t have to do this and it’s only for a couple of minutes and the; kids ,dog, mates, are in the car.

A case in point this was the scene that greeted me last night when I went to the Co-op (about which I have written about previously)

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Bear in mind this was 8.00pm so it was dark. 

So the fact is that the drivers of both vehicles were not bothered that they were parked on zig-zag lines, but also that cars approaching could not actually see if people were waiting at the crossing.

So is it the fact that we no longer have any ‘Traffic Police’ or actually any proper ‘Traffic Wardens’*  So people know by law of averages that they can get away with it?

or is it just part of the ‘Me, Me, Me’ malaise that seems to have affected the nation from the top down?

 

Declaration of Interest: I have been driving for 26 years, I have never had  a parking ticket, the one driving related ticket I have had was for entering a short bus lane on a junction that I had driven for years, that was introduced whilst I was overseas for 3 years, No excuse, I paid it. (The bus lane was revoked later due to the amount of complaints)

 

* Local Authority Parking Attendants are NOT Traffic Wardens as much as the MSM would like us to believe, a Traffic Wardens remit was to ‘Keep The Traffic Moving’  not to collect revenue, which is why in London they were part of the Met and had certain Police powers when it came to traffic.