Full marks to Ealing Council for responding to Mr Mustard's FOI request, made on twitter, in a mere 2 days. Other authorities are saying they don't know when they'll be able to answer, perhaps after 40 days or not at all. One is even nudging requestors to withdraw the question.
A worrying number of traffic wardens are off sick. Many of the ones who aren't sick should be redeployed to something more useful.
Congestion? there is almost zero traffic, at levels last seen in 1955. A bogus justification for a PCN.
If a loading bay is dangerous, it is in the wrong place. High Streets are deserted, there is plenty of space for commercial vehicles to unload, another false reason to enforce.
There must be a better easier solution than making tired NHS staff working long hours jump through administrative hoops. Barnet, for example, allow free parking in residents bays, Ealing could do the same.
Overall, it doesn't look like Ealing Council have pared back enforcement very much, the main limiting factor will be the number of traffic wardens who are fit to work.
Yours frugally
Mr Mustard
Update: 9 April
Having had a less than full and frank response to one of his questions, Mr Mustard asked for it to be answered. It was at the second attempt.
Update: 9 April
Having had a less than full and frank response to one of his questions, Mr Mustard asked for it to be answered. It was at the second attempt.
It wasn't, of course, a 'further' question, but a request to answer what was asked the first time. The first answer was not accurate as claimed, Mr Mustard really doesn't understand why councils, and Ealing are not alone in this, try to pretend that black is white when it clearly isn't.
Mr Mustard had asked which contraventions, per the standard PCN code list, were no longer being enforced.
The accurate answer is none at all, they can all be enforced.
So that's it, more or less business as usual in Ealing when it comes to issuing PCNs.
It seems even if a hydrogen bomb had been dropped in central London, Ealing would still carry on enforcing, thus indicating the complete absence of any sense of morality or humanity in this council.All that counts is the money rolling in. I hope they all choke on it !
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