Unwarranted parking fines, interfering do-gooders, and morons.
Blatantly ridiculous situations created by someone who obviously thought their decision made perfect sense in theory and is too gutless to admit is actually just crap in practice.
For example:
At Warren Street Station where normal ticket gates have been replaced with wheelchair/buggy gates, which remain non-operational, which, when coupled with the inbalance of entry gates to exit gates, means there are only 3 operational entry gates into the station. This leads to a large crowd of people trying to get into the station having to wait a long time, while the odd two people who want to leave the station at rush hour have a wonderful choice of multiple exits. In theory, a train would come along and everyone would want to get off at once. So you'd need more gates for this than the sporadic arrival of people wanting to get into the station. In the mornings, when there are many many people trying to get to work, this works perfectly well. In the evenings, whatever the theory, it just doesn't. The gates are reversible, and yet they never reassign some of them to entry gates. Why, why, why?:bomb
Another example:
Family friends visiting and getting a parking ticket for parking with two wheels on the grass verge outside my house. There's a kerb, then there's some grass, then there's the pavement. Apparently the council classifies the grass as the pavement and can fine people for parking on it, even though they're just trying to keep out of traffic's way a little more than they would otherwise, which, by the way, would not get them a parking ticket at all. Hello council, the grass is not pavement. Council employees mow the grass, do they mow the pavement? No, because they're different. They're very very distinctly different. The pavement is the bit over there, the bit that's paved. The clue's in the name, morons!:bomb Even more annoying is whatever individual reported this to the council as some kind of violation, because this area isn't even patrolled by parking attendants.:mad:
