Proposal to allow 15 minute parking on double yellow lines a bad idea

Conservative Communities Secretary Eric Pickles wants to allow vehicles to be able to park on double yellow lines for up to 15 minutes. 

This is a bad idea for the following reasons:

• Double yellow lines are often provided to prevent parking in dangerous places, such as at road junctions
• Double yellow lines are also used to reduce congestion
• Limited waiting restrictions can already be used to control parking in locations where it is safe to park but it needs to be controlled (as in my local Theale High Street)
• It would make enforcement almost impossible as Civil Enforcement Officers (traffic wardens) would either have to wait to see when drivers returned or make copious notes of time when vehicles parked.

Under their code of conduct, enforcement officers already have to wait five minutes, to allow drivers to return, before issuing a ticket.

This proposal seems like typical Tory pandering to the attitudes of papers like the Daily Mail or the Sun where any attempt to enforce road laws is made out to be a "war on the motorist".