Parking, a very civil service?

Alan Ashbee explores the true meaning of parking enforcement

We might just be approaching a time when we start looking back on traffic wardens with fondness and affection. Look at Lovely Rita — the Beatles wrote a song about her in 1967.

Those were the days, as Mary?Hopkins sang a year later, when the only equipment a traffic warden used was a pencil, a pad and an analogue watch. We had a sort of ‘love-hate’ relationship. We loved it when we could get help from the warden and hated it when we couldn’t. I remember being let off as...

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