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OK, so just to recall the context, you're trying to prove city parking laws were created in response to complaints.
Your first link describes how the city of Detroit invented the stop sign. IOW, officials invented law. It mentions nothing of citizen complaints as the driving force.
The second link describes how the first parking meter was invented in Oklahoma City. Merchants complained about traffic congestion and asked Carl Magee who invented the parking meter to limit parking times. Limiting parking times would increase congestion, not reduce it. And Roger W. Babson all on his own invented one and also filed for patent. Most people didn’t like it and likely complained, so by your theory of complaint-driven law, the meters should have been removed, but the city found it was a money-maker.
Last edited by Chris; 06-02-2019 at 02:00 PM.
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler
Underlying both articles was the problem of traffic congestion, people parking wherever they pleased and certain inherent dangers between traffic and parking. The role of city councils as representatives of the residents of cities is to deal with these problems and if necessary by creating ordinances.
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"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.”
Mahatma Gandhi
In quoting my post, you affirm and agree that you have not been goaded, provoked, emotionally manipulated or otherwise coerced into responding.
"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.”
Mahatma Gandhi
It's not black and white. Clearly people in cities complain to the elected representatives about things like parking and city councils also receive feedback from businesses and municipal departments. Bigger municipalities also have city planning departments whose job it is to deal with population growth. I have said this before, but you ignore the fact that this isn't a situation of one or the other but one of cause and effect with multiple avenues leading to change.
In quoting my post, you affirm and agree that you have not been goaded, provoked, emotionally manipulated or otherwise coerced into responding.
"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler
In quoting my post, you affirm and agree that you have not been goaded, provoked, emotionally manipulated or otherwise coerced into responding.
"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Captain Obvious (06-02-2019)
You started off all, gave possibly one example, which amounts to some, and now you're reaching for most.
At this point it's not about middle ground, it's about chasing you around as you make unrelated claims about different things, almost as if you're in search of something you'll get right. Well, go ahead, not playing your cat and mouse game.
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler