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100,000 More Parking Tickets Given
12 months ago NCP (a private company) took over responsibility for parking enforcement from the PSNI. In the PSNI's last 12 months in charge they handed out 61,488 parking tickets compared to 163,500 tickets handed out in Northern Ireland by NCP in their first year.
As a driver, I may be expected to complain about this (don't get me started on Arlene Foster's nannying), but in fact I welcome it. In fact I suspect it's nowhere near enough, with many drivers abusing double-yellow lines because apparently the rules don't apply to them.
Is it a coincidence that many of these drivers happen to drive big fuck-off monster trucks? You know who you are - the parents who pick their kids up from Methodist College on the Lisburn Road (or any number of schools across the country) who insist on parking their 4x4s on double-yellow lines or the zig-zags at the crossing instead of parking legally down a side street and, god forbid, walking fifty yards or so to meet little Tarquin at the school gate, completely ambivalent to the fact that you're making the journey up the road much more difficult for everyone else, making it more dangerous for kids to cross the road and harder for buses to pull in and out at the bus stop.