@pony London in early 1990s used to be exactly like this, eventually TfL filled every street with CCTV cameras and imposed a 20mph (32 km/h) speed limit throughout nearly all of London which made things slightly better...
@pony I live at a place where we pay premium for parking anywhere (like €6/hr in the city centre is a very normal thing and annual fee for the second car runs into €300 with 3rd car being like €600). The world here simply reminds you every single day that a car is a luxury item, not a human right. That solves most problems like bad parking. Because with fees comes enforcement and it goes hand in hand with fines for bad parking. Cities like Prague would greatly benefit too. Especially in the suburbs.
@pony @FailForward other than the sheer density of population and ancient street layout, I suspect a big reason the London speed limits were introduced is to try and slow down traffic to a point all the camera operators can keep an eye on it. Its not perfect but its made some improvement, people don't get run over quite as often and its even possible to cycle in London which was positively dangerous 30 years ago...
the cameras and wardens also pick up parking violations (in most parts of London this is immediately illegal and results in £30-70 fine), elsewhere it would still be classed as hazardous parking but there are less resources available to stop it
@pony It’s clearly an enforcement problem. Here it’s also municipal force (not really police, but something like that) responsible for these things. But nobody bothers really in person. We have things like the one below driving around. These scanners automatically report the cars to municipal servers, those automatically issue a fine, send it to an automated facility for printing letters and enveloping them and then it’s picked up by postal service. The first time a person interacts with that fine is when I receive it per post. And that is typically also the last human being seeing the fine, with an exception of me making a complaint about it, in which case it’s the first time somebody from the municipality touches the said fine. It’s a bit robotic system, but it works quite well and saves costs.
