People who aren't grown up enough to be trusted to park their cars properly
And think the world should be organised for their convenience are the real cunts. Traffic wardens are there to ensure selfish twats are held to account. I support them. The targets aren't really an issue because a) you still have to be illegally parked to get a ticket and b) there are enough illegally parked vehicles that traffic wardens never need to go looking for them. If you park legally, you can never ever get a ticket. Same with speeding cameras; just don't speed. Fines are basically a voluntary contribution because the transgressor chooses to transgress.
(Vlad the Inhaler forgot his password, Sat 29 May 2010, 10:59, 2 replies)

'never ever'?
so no-one's ever had a ticket overturned because the warden was getting a bit leery with handing them out eh?
(tjn whizzing on the electric fence of life, Sat 29 May 2010, 16:09, closed)

I agree that in as much
that drivers (I use the term loosely) should be able to park their vehicle with some sort of accuracy. But why the fuck should anyone be forced to pay to park in a street (excluding emergency areas etc) that they as the public, own, and then cop a fine because a meter ran out? Why when over 90% (no it's not shite) of fatal collisions occur under the posted limit, do we have speed limits? The system is basically in place to raise funds. Yes you are right, it is voluntary, but it shouldn't be. Just over 100 years ago it was illegal for women to vote,some places it is illegal to be gay, just because it's law doesn't make it right or safe. For that matter why not make it law that all drivers must wear only white underwear, based on no research whatsoever, but someone believes that because they wear white undies and havent had a crash, that it must somehow be safer. If more people stood up and said "no, I refuse to be a traffic warden/CSA worker/cold caller on the grounds that it is an infringement of the basic human right to do as you so please as long as it does not negatively impact on my fellow human beings", the world would be a considerably better place.
(M61A1 CUPID- STUNTS, Sun 30 May 2010, 8:41, closed)

Nope
You've got your stats skewed. The comparison you want to make is: percentage of crashes over the speed limit that result in fatalities vs. percentage of crashes under the speed limit that result in fatalities.

Of course 90% of road fatalities occur under the legal limit because 99% of the time people are driving under the legal limit. Slow driving isn't necessarily good driving, but fast driving is almost always more dangerous driving.

In answer to the other bit of your post: because not all parking spaces are equal. Those in close proximity to services will be more in demand and it makes sense not to allow just one person to use each such space for the entire day otherwise it would negatively impact on other human beings. If there was another potential disincentive to stop people monopolising the best spaces they could use that, but fining them is pretty simple.
(flimflam_machine, Tue 1 Jun 2010, 13:10, closed)

I can't speak for the UK
but in Australia I have noticed a percentage of people that that would appear to believe that because they are driving at the posted limit, they are safe, never mind that they are driving along with their head up their arse, thinking about last nights dinner or fuck knows what. When you evertake them while they rest their head on their hand as they drive looking into space and they almost jump out of their skin, you know damn well their mind isnt where it should be.
Stats for the Northern Territory when speed limits were introduced, the road toll rose significantly ( around 40% I think). A study over here also found that those who drove above the speed limit (20-30km over) were generally more focused and attentive on what they were doing. I have a bike on which I am very comfortable and focused when I cruise around 140Km/Hr (on the open road),I also have an old diesel ute which struggles over 100Km/Hr, I know in which my mind wanders most. When I first started taking my daughter on the back of my bike, I tried hard to behave and be legal, but I very quickly found that I was making more errors, and more serious errors while at low speeds, because my mind was under utilised and began to do other stuff while I was riding. I have since returned to a style where I am comfortably stimulated, and the dangerous occurences have been reduced. Bear in mind here that I am not talking about fanging everywhere like a lunatic at 200kph, but comfortably brisk.
As far as the speed stats go, our cops only report on whether or not speed was a factor in the collision in the sense that if they were travelling slower,regardless of the posted limit, they wouldn't have died. Articles I have read from interviews with concerned police, have stated that roughly only 2% of the reported fatalities occed over the posted limit, or , essentially that 98% of fatalities occured under the posted limit.......so what the fuck good is the speed limit?
(M61A1 CUPID- STUNTS, Thu 3 Jun 2010, 8:17, closed)