Foot in mouth disease in Barnet

 

Many motorists like to put a wheel on the pavement (footway) when the road is narrow. That is car brain thinking as if the carriageway isn't wide enough for a fire engine to get through you just shouldn't stop there, & not make the pavement harder to navigate for a blind person or someone with a wheelchair or a pram.

Henry Road used to have Chez TonTon on the corner (sadly Eric has retired and no-one else took it over) but the car in this case was down the Lancaster Road end. Mr Mustard looked at the images online on the council computer and couldn't quite believe what he was seeing.

Yes, a perfectly parked car, within a mm or two of the kerb stone. Still room to get through the middle of the carriageway.

The motorist, Mr P, couldn't believe it either and made his own challenge to Barnet Council expecting a swift cancellation and maybe, just maybe, a word of apology. He didn't get either. He got this.

What usually happens next is that Mr Mustard gets instructed, sends a complaint to the parking manager, the PCN gets cancelled, an apology is made and a black mark is added to the APCOA file. However, that was suddenly no longer necessary as Mr P had also submitted a separate complaint which was looked at a few days later and the PCN was then cancelled.

Mr Mustard wonders if you know better than he how the heck the PCN got issued in the first place. It is a bizarre blunder.

Mr Mustard also wonders what is going on in the back office that they can reject a 100% perfect (is that a tautology?) challenge. Has AI been let rip in order to save time and money, AI must be in PCN departments already as they are all about processing oodles of data very quickly, cheaply and hopefully accurately. Do ask the council if you are an AI expert as you will ask the best questions.

The traffic warden and the back office person both need a rollicking but they probably won't get one.

The traffic warden also took this photo which was of a sign in Lancaster Road, so around the corner, which isn't pertinent and may have caused the CEO to get muddled. Advice to CEOs, if you are muddled put your machine away and have a little rest.

The end.