Tom Anderson wrote:
On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, Brimstone wrote:

Dogpoop wrote:
Brimstone typed:
John Rowland wrote:
Nowadays I read Kafka as a utopian vision of how saner government
might work.

My aunt lives 600 metres from a tube station, and IME the street
has always been fully parked on both sides. The street has
recently been made residents parking only. There is now at most
one car parked in the whole street! It turns out that in a street
of 40 houses, only one person actually owns a car, so both sides
of an entire street have been reserved for a single car!

AIUI the intention of making roads "residents only" is to stop
commuters blocking the road for those needing access to the houses
along that road.

Heh, how about a new parking scheme, whereby non-residents can park,
say for a fiver a day, but the money goes to the 'street residents'
to keep the area tidy and well-maintained. Might work. :-) But
I'll not hold my breath.

A good idea but I can see that 'street residents' would be
translated to "local council". :-(

Although if the residents all apply for parking permits, and then
privately flog them to commuters, the council could be bypassed. This
is illegal, but hey, it might work anyway!

It would be the free market in action wouldn't it. But as you say, it's
government so illegal.