motoring

[Peter Moss]

what is the total number of traffic wardens on uk?

Thank you

[Peter Moss]

No. I am simply looking for a statistic in order to calculate the cost benefit of TWs to society.

Thanks.

[MORELLO]

Aproximately 23000, with over 4000 in London alone.

[Tim Baxter]

Interesting question.....

Out here in the sticks I literally haven't seen a traffic warden for years, do they still have them.  If mine is the only town in the world not to have them then I suggest the total is 22,950.  I assumed that yellow line offences were now policed by the police, or not.....

[Peter Moss]

Thank you. I am sure I am not the only person who thinks the 24 000 wardens would be much better occupied looking for car vandals, car thieves, hit and run criminals, roadside muggers, assisting the young, the elderly and decrepit at dangerous junctions and apprehending transport related miscreants.

Placing tickets on cars and organising clamping and towing away simply creates problems not the least being the alienation of law abiding citizens (particularly foreigners who have great difficulty in understanding the plethora of different signage), enormous wastage of bureuacratic time and all at great cost to the tax payer who is of course the immediate target of all these restrictive practices.

Undoubtedly traffic wardens and what they do brings in revenue. May I suggest that there are many other more user-friendly ways of collecting money and at the same time maintaining the quality of life that punitive parking restrictions and over zealous wardening clearly do not.

In th part of London where I live we have recently had four different kinds of parking restriction, several new solar powered ticket vending machines and a mass of tow away trucks and intimidatory unfiformed wardens now disturbing a place where we had no parking problems and no intrusion of unsightly and fundamentally unhelpful parking infrastructure and restrictions. What is the cost and benefit to our society?

[PhilD]

Sounds a good idea mdoo98!

[Peter Moss]

PhilD - have you ever discovered who benefits from parking restrictions in areas where historically there has been no significant problem, such as the one I described earlier?