Back on to another pet subject! Milton Keynes council decided to rake in more money a while back by doing away with free car parking spaces around the shopping and business areas of Central Milton Keynes. The replacement is a two price band scheme, moderate and expensive. The expensive ones are close to the shops and around prime business locations like the Santander building.
Being morons, council people think this is an excellent ruse and they start flipping through executive furniture brochures in anticipation of the wads of cash rolling in. Naturally, the general public who often have to work for a living and only keep their job by at least being competent, parked in the surrounding estates and avoided the new high priced bays, which generally are now empty.
Now, with more Tories on board a rethink is in the wind, to bring back free spaces. I'm sure it is beyond their capacity to understand a concept of serving a community and go back to universal, free parking but hey, it's a step in the right direction. However, the annoyed residents of the streets nearby, have been helped by the council buying a huge number of posts and signs, to turn these areas into 'permit parking' only. I'm guessing that the permits will cost the home owners money. and give a degree of control, unwarranted of course, to the council.
So a mess the council created can be resolved, apparently by the spending of more taxpayers money and by planting a forest of signposts. Come on, there must be some kind of test you have to pass to become a councillor, like genuinely not being able to tie your own shoelaces. Some people, paid no doubt from public funds, may think I am being a bit harsh. If so, show me a quality decision by a council, one that is in the interests of the community, works and isn't run by a relation.
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