I find the ethos of residential parking abhorrent in principle. It has been my experience, of this little gem, that those afforded a dedicated parking slot often do not actually use it as intended.

They often take up another slot during quiet hours and then leave the dedicated slot freefor visitors.

There is either free roadside parking for all or charged parking for all. Those who wish to monopolise a dedicated piece of the public streets, in front of their door, should pay a hefty premium, costed at the meter hourly price, worthy of renting that piece of the road landin perpetuity.

All other street parking should be on meters, by an hourly rate, thereby reducing the temptation for those residents with a dedicated slot from further occupying another slot. I await the howls of derision but there should be no free street parking. The roads and streets are for the efficient flow of traffic; they are not supposed to be private car parks.

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