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Originally Posted by Aardvark
I'd scrap the speed cameras, but would keep yellow lines in most places. The way some people park the centres of our towns would grind to a halt as people left insufficent room for other cars to get through. You also would get people literally abandoning cars for days on end if there were no parking restrictions. Could you imagine Heathrow without yellow lines?
Speed enforcement is targetted at a set of speed limits established a long time ago when road conditions were completely different. It needs a real debate about why we even need speed limits at certain times of day or night on certain roads. I'd remove motorway speed limits between dawn and about 9 am on summer weekend mornings and let the people who have fast motors enjoy themselves (no tolerance of drinking or drugs in such conditions and people should be insured). We need a society where people can enjoy themselves not have pettyfogging restrictions placed on their every move.
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Double yellow lines could be kept at corners and other places where parking could cause accidents. Otherwise scrap them.
Otherwise, as long as the cars are not abandoned, what does it matter? People keep their own cars outside their houses for months on end.
I don't suppose it would make much difference to Heathrow. You could leave your car somewhere but you would have to walk to the terminal. These days you can book a week's parking with courtesy buses for £10-20 online.
What infuriates me is where arbitary restrictions have been placed on streets abutting commuter rail stations. I could name a few which are like a ghost town during the day when all the residents have taken their cars to work anyway.