Dumb And Dumber

So Hackney Council - in its infinite stupidity - has struck again.

There are notices the length of Brighton Road that parking is suspended along the whole street for two days from midnight tonight to midnight Friday.

And the reason for this wholesale suspension of parking privileges? ...Unknown and unfathomable.

Are they going to resurface the whole road in two days? ... Highly doubtful.

Is one (or more) of the nation's magnificent utilities going to dig a very long hole, effect necessary works, refill and resurface in a couple of days? ...See that flying pig?

These are typically the two reasons for suspending parking. And when there are works, suspension is usually phased.

So why close a whole street for 48 hours?

Surely not to generate revenue? Tsk.

The same thing happened on our street too -- you may recall my giddy note about a few months ago. Parking was suspended then for the better part of a week and through all that time there wasn't a hint of works, repairs, deliveries, police actions, protest marches ot ticker-tape parades. But still PCNs were liberally issued.

I shudder to think how many weaselly little parking wardens the council has drafted-in to patrol (erm, skulk around) in the wee small hours and stick in-disputable penalty notices on the unsuspecting homeowner's Mini, GeeWizz or (ehem) Land Rover..? A small army I'll be bound.

And closing off parking in Brighton just means that everyone from zone E must move their vehicles and park half a mile away. ..Because of course, if we were to park conveniently around the corner, we'd be in the wrong zone and liable to further penalty. ..Probably clamped given the council's malicious, inept and preposterous planning strategy.

Damn. I really hate Hackney Council.

I could, of course, be proven wrong and there might be a brilliant, logical and wonderfully altrusitic reason for this 48 hour disruption.

..But then we're right back to those porkers upon high.