Pavement Parking

[Digit]

A chap lived opposite me years ago who owned a Morris Minor, in the four years that I lived there it came out once a week on a Saturday night to get him to the pub, and on Sunday morning he would push it down his drive and onto the raod and wash the damn thing!

Roy.

 

[Woody Alan]

It is actually illegal to park or cause an obstruction on a footway, but the police don't seem to bother. I do not know of anybody who has received a warning or a fine?

I had experience of this when some ***** regularly unneccessarily parked his van close to the junction at the end of my road. It wasn' t possible to see traffic from the left properly until pulling out of the junction too far. I reported it to the police and they visited the guy. Later the policeman called me and said that the guy said he didn't have anywhere else to park it. (he had a whole brickweave front garden, his missus just didn't want it there) I pointed out that he had space and the policeman agreed but said he couldn't call the bloke a liar. Also as he was half on the path it would be almost impossible to prove in a court that it was obstruction and he was on the limit near to a junction, he had taken advice from his traffic sergeant.
frustrated by the whole lack of support for the community I said the only thing I could think of "Can I have your police number as I am making a note of this conversation and the time and date and "when" an accident results possibly a death I will make myself available at the coroners court and repeat this conversation" nasty trick but never saw the van again.

Alan

 

[RogerS]

......
And then there are bicyclers, might kill one or more of them someday. bl***y kamikaze. ......

That's why you carry those offcuts of 15mm square oak with you. So you can ram it in their spokes as they go by. Same problem in London. :twisted:

 

[Slim]

My parents live next to a Morrisons supermarket. Once a year, when everyone is doing their Christmas shop, the car park fills up and parking overspills onto the road. More than once there have been cars entirely blocking my parents drive. I came across a great suggestion on the internet. Instead of just putting an note under their wiper, write it on those sticky printer labels and slap several of them on the windscreen. It was great watching them try to peel them off and then having to scrape the residue with their credit card. :lol:

 

[mr]

I find myself increasingly annoyed by motorists who park their vehicles on the pavement, hardly leaving room for pedestrians to pass. The pedestrians who really struggle to pass are the elderly, handicapped and mothers with baby buggies; all people who need their lives made easier, not harder.

Does this only happen in my neck of the woods or is it endemic?

Gill

If you don't park on the pavement in my road (there is only pavement on one side of the road) then you have blocked the road. Recently the bin lorry had to reverse out of the road for this very reason. We have all been ticketed along my road, my car has been keyed, but there is no other option. There is a lady who rides down the road in an invalid buggy, I've spoken to her about it. She has to ride down the road not because of the cars but because the wheely bins block the pavement. A blanket ban on pavement parking is clearly arrant nonsense. It's not a case of one size fits all alas.

Cheers Mike

 

[Smudger]

Even better.
Our local 'council' (I use the word under protest) allows parking on some pavements, and marks them accordingly.
I took my car for a service, and parked in one of the marked boxes outside the garage. Came back to find a ticket - it seems that although the box was painted on the pavement the space wasn't really there (though the ones either side of it were). It does not have a sign on a stick...

People have challenged the council over this, and lost.

Now, where does that sit on the spectrum of honest dealings?

 

[davin]

I Live in Lewes.
I wanted to live in Brighton but couldn't find anywhere to park...

 

[Paul Chapman]

I wanted to live in Brighton but couldn't find anywhere to park...

My son and I had to go to Brighton just before Christmas. We parked in one of the multi-storey car parks. Blimey, we almost had to grease the sides of the car to fit it into the parking bay :shock:

 

[Terry Smart]

I used to live in a narrow road and if we didn't park with two wheels on the pavement the road was blocked (it has since been redesigned and is much better, but was like this for many many years).

One time we got tickets for parking on the pavement so we all came off the pavement and blocked the road and waited for the fun to start.

Fairly quickly the police were called and guess how they parked? Yup, with two wheels on the pavement!

I've pushed buggies and I know how frustrating it all can be, roads and pavements seem to me to be incapable of handling the current numbers of cars; I don't know what the answer is but it will require some give and take.

 

[tnimble]

There is much difference between having two wheels on the edge of the pavement to prevent the road from being blocked and fully obstructing a pavement to either

-create an additional parking space so you don't have to walk more than a few foot

-because you're afraid your car gets damaged if its not at least 5 foot in from border of the parking space

-because you to lasy to park descent


What will fix the problem? t least in my street it would be fixed if they would not own so many transport vehicles. Its not uncommon for a 2 adult and 2 kid household to have 4 cars and 7 bicycles. One leased car from work and a personal owned car one car for the wife and 1 car because the oldest just got his licence. Propbebaly in a few years thet have 5 cars unless the oldest moved out quickly AND takes the car with him/her.

 

[davegw]

of course there is a simple answer:

1) Ban the ownership of Private Vehicles
2) Subsidise public transport to an extent that it becomes useful to more than a specific group of commuters
3) Return the Canal system over to mass transportation
4) Move away from a market lead to a needs based economy

obviously the answer is simple, the implementation of the answer, well ......

 

[Digit]

Ban the ownership of Private Vehicles

What do you think they are working on at the moment Dave?

Roy.