Bungling Barnet Council

[The Bald Eagle]

Go for it my son! Make the bastards pay!

[Pat Pending]

They still have not bothered to repaint the lines nearly 1 year on, But still enforce them even though I have it in writing assuring me that enforcement would stop immediately. I am making it my business that this money is paid back to the rightful owners.

[Pat Pending]

I was in a certain part of Barnet today (I do not want to say where in case it helps to identify the CEO involved) and a Female CEO was walking along a line of cars outside some shops. She paused at one vehicle while checking her box of tricks, she then went in to the betting office and alerted the punters she was about to ticket a car.    this gave the driver the chance to move the offending vehicle.
It's the Hakim Berkani affect it is spreading. 

[Boyo]

That's really heartening to hear Pat, good for her! I hope the "Berkani Effect" continues to spread like wildfire through Barnet and all other LAs!

  Y'know, initially I thought, "Christ, it's the world turned upside down, what's going on, she MUST be new?" etc -
but then I thought, how the hell did we get to this automated, targeted and incentivised stage where this considerate, compassionate, human reaction by the CEO is seen as abnormal and almost perverse?

Well done private enforcement companies for making the world such a dehumanised place, where suspicion, doubt, fear etc are seen as the norm, and acts of kindness are treated with suspicion  

[Nigel W]

Have you considered this?

"She paused at one vehicle while checking her box of tricks, she then went in to the betting office and alerted the punters she was about to ticket a car."

Do think that it is possible that her 'box of tricks' contained info. on the VRM that said don't issue a ticket to this vehicle? It might have belonged to a Council Worker for example.

[Pat Pending]

Have you considered this?

"She paused at one vehicle while checking her box of tricks, she then went in to the betting office and alerted the punters she was about to ticket a car."

Do think that it is possible that her 'box of tricks' contained info. on the VRM that said don't issue a ticket to this vehicle? It might have belonged to a Council Worker for example.

Aaaaaw Nigel you have just shattered my illusion of an act of unsolicited compassion in a harsh world,  next you will be telling me Father Christmas isn't real. 

[seggsy]

My money would go on Nigel's take.

[Pat Pending]

Well I think you are all very mean and cynical so I'm off to look for fairy's at the bottom of the garden. 

[Kill Switch]

Well I think you are all very mean and cynical so I'm off to look for fairy's at the bottom of the garden. 

Me and Father Christmas are coming too

[The Bald Eagle]

Coleman is at it again. And he has adopted the default position of all council officials when caught with their hand in the cookie jar.

Deny. Deny. Deny.

http://www.times-series.co.uk/news/topstories/9653256.Senior_Tory_investigated_over_claims_he_dodged_parking_fees_he_introduced/

[Pat Pending]

Coleman is a very untrustworthy individual and I look forward to him eventually being hauled through the courts.

[Pat Pending]

On the way back from the opticians this afternoon I thought about returning for a second eye test as I thought there must be something seriously wrong with my eyes. However I decided to take a picture to reassure my self I was not hallucinating or seeing things that were not there.
This is what passes for state of the art advertising  technology in the Borough of Barnet, note the carefully placed automatic advertisingmabob Smack Bang at the Crossing.    Any Partially sighted or Blind person would use the Tactile floor tiles to find the crossing and walk straight in to this bloody machine.  Any driver would be completely unsighted of a person approaching the crossing or vice versa, I have to ask what Complete F*****g Sh*t For Brains thought this one up??? 

[Belplasca]

Any driver would be completely unsighted of a person approaching the crossing or vice versa, I have to ask what Complete Fecking Shit For Brains thought this one up???

Hmm. Councils are always reassuring us that their primary objective is always safety.

Yet, unless this pavement (like some others where councils seek to profit) is private property, the Council must have given permission for the erection of this device. And been in a position to control its position.

Well, if it is so totally and absolutely unsafe for a car to park for a moment on the pavement because pedestrians might hurt themselves by walking into it, how much more dangerous is this device parked on the pavement. It does not have a driver to look out for approaching pedestrians. It's just there. In the way. Both blocking the path of pedestrians and the sightlines of approaching car drivers.

So, as usual, the local "authority" seeks to apply diametrically opposite principles to motorists and anything that can create revenue.

But, as always, it simply cannot all be about the money.

Can it?

Bob

[Pat Pending]

The Local press want to talk to me about it.

[BGB]

The sign post on the pedestrian refuge traffic island appears to be slightly obstructive.

And how high is the lower edge of the sign? It is recommended that it should be at least 7ft.