Comments on: Edgbaston Cricket Ground http://www.davidnikel.org.uk/blog/2009/06/edgbaston-cricket-ground A Liberal Democrat campaigner in Birmingham Ladywood Sun, 23 Jan 2011 19:23:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Nick Booth http://www.davidnikel.org.uk/blog/2009/06/edgbaston-cricket-ground/comment-page-1#comment-22 Nick Booth Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:03:14 +0000 http://www.davidnikel.org.uk/?p=165#comment-22 When the traffic is expected to be very heavy the streets get coned. Then really bizarre things tend to happen. If they choose to enforce you find people parking legally outside their own house in the evening and being ticketed the following morning, they haven't moved - someone has simply put a cone beside their car. That happens from time to time. Usually though someone gets paid to put cones out and then nobody enforces, so the visitors ignore the cones and park anyway. The whole process is why we coined the word fatuous. When the traffic is expected to be very heavy the streets get coned. Then really bizarre things tend to happen. If they choose to enforce you find people parking legally outside their own house in the evening and being ticketed the following morning, they haven’t moved – someone has simply put a cone beside their car. That happens from time to time.

Usually though someone gets paid to put cones out and then nobody enforces, so the visitors ignore the cones and park anyway.

The whole process is why we coined the word fatuous.

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