Enforcement? Bring it on!

I came out of the curve today and found several (not one or two, mind you) policemen going from car to car putting tickets on windscreens. About time, too!
The curve has its own little street that runs parallel to the main road. This way the flow of the main road is not interupted by slow cars making their way to the pick up points or to the parking lot entrance. Its a good idea by the town planners. But malaysian drivers saw it as an opportunity to save on the RM2 daily rate. As a result, people park on the slip road and the main road, leaving the slip road with one car width. To prevent people from parking there, a whole row of no parking signs, chained together, were placed on the side of the road, contributing to the very problem it was supposed to avoid.
To me the answer is in enforcement. Once people know that there's a penalty for not following the rules, then there's a reason to obey.
There's no point having rules when it's ok to not follow; lesser point when not paying the penalty results in being given a discount.