Parking in someone elses road.

dacouch

If you were to come around to my street and park your car outside my house, I should have to say NO...http://!!!!!!/VuA2o

Teacher2301

photome wrote: »

They are not their spaces! or yours. It is a public road with no parking restrictions.

You are right but we used to live in a country where people respected others and their property and perhaps, their assumed personal space (ie the bit of road out at the front of their house). I know its a public road and anyone can park there. However, wouldn't it be nice just for once that people thought of others before themselves - or is this an old fashioned sense of morality? (I'm only 35 - !!!!!! - I'm middle-aged and a grumpy old man...:mad: - NOOOOOOOOOO! I'm too young....:eek:)

:ATeacher 2301 looks down from his place in heaven and sighs :A

anewman

Teacher2301 wrote: »

we used to live in a country where people respected others and their property and perhaps, their assumed personal space (ie the bit of road out at the front of their house).

Emphasis added This stuff has been going on for many years though. Why else near city centres are there resident permit parking only schemes. What happened before the schemes were in place?! (I assume people parked up and walked into town.)

Teacher2301

I think people just generall respected others back then but we don't anymore - well a large proportion of society don't anyway. Just look at some of the comments about the OP's question, some people have 'actively thrown their shoes' - (Beware President Bush type thing) at the OP for merely suggesting the problem.

Llyllyll

Teacher2301 wrote: »

You are right but we used to live in a country where people respected others and their property and perhaps, their assumed personal space (ie the bit of road out at the front of their house). I know its a public road and anyone can park there. However, wouldn't it be nice just for once that people thought of others before themselves - or is this an old fashioned sense of morality? (I'm only 35 - !!!!!! - I'm middle-aged and a grumpy old man...:mad: - NOOOOOOOOOO! I'm too young....:eek:)

:ATeacher 2301 looks down from his place in heaven and sighs :A

I’m with you all the way OP. Unfortunately, it’s the “I’m all right Jack” attitude that is predominant in this country these days.

Teacher2301

Llyllyll wrote: »

I’m with you all the way OP. Unfortunately, it’s the “I’m all right Jack” attitude that is predominant in this country these days.

thank you - phew I thought I was all alone then!!:D

Smiley82

Interesting thread....at the end of the day, the OP has no right to park outside his house, and although inconvenient that others choose to park in his street, it's one of life's little issues that one has to come to deal with......

We have a different issue in our street. We are the first lot of residential parking bays, approximately 100m from a large high street shopping area. We constantly have people who sit in our residents bay, staying in their cars, taking up parks while waiting to pick people up from shopping and work.

Of an afternoon, over half our residents bays can be filled up by people just sitting in their cars, without permits, waiting to collect others. If the see a parking warden, they just drive away. Meanwhile, residents are left waiting around, or parking miles away from their house, because there are no free parks. My OH has taken to telling people to move, informing them that they are in residents bays without a permit, and saying he'll call the council. I'm not sure how this would actually go down, but can see why he gets annoyed.

Again, one of life's little pains. What can you do? Unless there is a warden there every day, people will continue to park there, taking up valuable residents bays on what is already an overcrowded street.

Oh well!!

dacouch

Teacher as you quite rightly we are an over populated island with limited space. The population has increased as has the amount of vehicles in use so to some extent it isto some extent inevitable that people no longer respect your space eg the space outside your house. I live my life on a live and let live basis and believe.

The op is in effect arguing that his neighboors are being selfish by parking outside his home, it could be argued that he is being selfish by expecting the space outside his home to be for his personal use or just for home owners from his road.

Life is to short to worry about insignificant problems like someone having the audacity of parking outside your home.

Gavin83

Teacher2301 wrote: »

You are right but we used to live in a country where people respected others and their property and perhaps, their assumed personal space (ie the bit of road out at the front of their house). I know its a public road and anyone can park there. However, wouldn't it be nice just for once that people thought of others before themselves - or is this an old fashioned sense of morality? (I'm only 35 - !!!!!! - I'm middle-aged and a grumpy old man...:mad: - NOOOOOOOOOO! I'm too young....:eek:)

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I can appreciate what you are saying but in practice it's just totally unrealistic to expect no one else to park outside your property. What happens if someone else is parked outside your house, your visiting friends or your a multi car family? Im sure there is no one here who can claim they've never parked outside someone elses property, OP and yourself included. If someone has space on their drive and they still insist on parking on the road then I can understand the frustrations to a degree.

I've often parked outside peoples homes and never felt guilty for it. If someone came out and asked me to move without a very good reason for doing so I'd simply refuse. 'It's in front of my house' doesn't qualify as a good reason in my eyes.

The only answer if your parking arrangements bother you that much is to get a driveway. That way you are guaranteed a space outside your front door.

aloiseb

anewman wrote: »

Emphasis added This stuff has been going on for many years though. Why else near city centres are there resident permit parking only schemes. What happened before the schemes were in place?! (I assume people parked up and walked into town.)

They did - I used to do it in Oxford, before the place became a draconian no-go area for commuter cars. To get a space in any of the roads near town, however, I would have had to get up at about 5am, especially during term.

Once the restrictions came in, I just had to cycle.....