From: "Phil Payne" 

> Some of it is about gov cash. Here in Scarborough we have a masterful
> bunch of council ppl wrt scamming cash out of whitehall.

> as such we have central town parking disks (set the time on your disk
> (inside your car), leave it visible & you get X hours to park there)
> even though we have no problem with parking...coz the gov wanted to see
> this & would give councils who put it in a wodge of cash...

That's european harmonisation stuff.

> wrt "bike lanes" to get the gov "well done" cash
payout you only need to
> have a certain length of bike lane. As such we have these little patches
> too.

We have a couple of 20-yard bus lanes in Sheffield, too.

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