Parking Ettiquete

nej

ollyshaw wrote:

I have personal experience of blue badge prejudice, there are other legitimate reasons for being disabled aside from being old.

Olly

Totally agree, I just think it unfair that somebody who is evidently capable of walking 100 yards should park there over two people who struggle to do so.

My mother in law has MS and could apply for a disabled badge. When she had a car (she doesn't now), she didn't get one as she reasoned she was capable of walking without discomfort, preferring to leave disabled spaces for people who really needed them.

michaels

angry wrote:

Where do you draw the line?
Can you "reserve" a space if you're going to be unloading some furniture from your car?
How about big bags of laundry?
What if you know you've got to be up very early in the morning?

I am happy if people want to hold the space outside their house for any of these reasons, although as it is such a quiet street it is not a problem to stop in the road and load/unload at any time of day and then go and park in a space. The advantage of furniture/laundry being that you can leave it on its own while you go and park.

Also if people want to unload in front of my house rather than theirs while my wife is not in then there is no problem them moving the bin, unloading and then replacing the bin. It is never impossible to find a space at all, just sometimes you have to walk about 50m. When we are together and before we had two kids we were happy to park where ever. AS mentioned above there is an elderly couple on the road who use cones to mark the space outside their house and I wouldn't dream of taking their space even though they have no 'right' to it. Does no one have any consideration for others these days? Don't people feel even a little bit bad seeing someone struggle with two small children just so they can avoid walking 50 feet?

plane_boy2000

michaels wrote:

Georgina and Jet, thankyou for the constructive comments, unfortunately the 'thanks' button is not working for me today.



Derrick
I am not claiming any entitlement I am just asking for people to show consideration, just as I do each time I don't park in a diasabled or parent and child bay at the supermarket or give up my seat on the trai or tube. I thought in this country people were generally polite and considerate to others needs but I can see that not everyone thinks this way.

Sorry but I am with Derrick on this one. Its a public highway and everyone has equal rights to it. I have 3 small children and for that reason bought a house with a drive so that this was not as issue. If its that biga problem for you then move. Where would we all be if everybody marked out a space that they may want to use? In my opinion having children dosent mark you out as a special case.

Emmzi

Don't get me started on priviledges for those with kids, having to cover eternal maternity leave, tax breaks, special supermarket spaces, flexible working, and us barren spinsters have to be 'flexible' to accommodate every request in case the company get sued... [/rant mode]

bottom line, you chose to have kids, you chose where you live. Really harsh of me, but us barren spinsters are like that!

Lady_S

@ Michaels

To be honest I think you have a cheek to want to reserve the space with a bin. It is unfortunate you have children, but hey it was a choice that you made living in the house that you did. I am sure there are lots of people who can tell you why they need that space more than you do.

Personally if you were leaving a bin out I would think it was a cheek.

ollyshaw

Lady_S wrote:

Personally if you were leaving a bin out I would think it was a cheek.

I totally agree

northern_munky

I bet all the people on here saying you have no right to park outside your own house live in houses with drives. It's not a question of moving house, some of us cant afford a 4 bed semi and have to live in terraces!

I'm in the same boat, but most of us here will not park at each others doors, its all a matter of having some common decency and being good neighbours, sounds like the OP hasn't got decent neighbours though so doubt there's much you can do about it unfortunately.

Dan29

northern_munky wrote:

I bet all the people on here saying you have no right to park outside your own house live in houses with drives. It's not a question of moving house, some of us cant afford a 4 bed semi and have to live in terraces!

I live in a terraced house. Wouldn't dream of trying to stop people parking anywhere, and don't expect them to do so either. In our street each house is roughly as wide as a car is long, and several of the households have more than one car, so if people started preventing others from parking, where would all the cars go?!

Some terraced houses have room to park a car in the front garden (or back garden if there's a vehicle-width lane behind). If that's not an option then it does sound like the wrong house. Others with off-street parking may well have been available for the same price?

northern_munky

Dan29, any terrace house is going to be the same width as a car, which means you'll only get one car at each house. We have two cars but we park one down the road and I wouldnt dream of parking one at my next door neighbours and that applies to him too, that would be just plain selfish, wouldnt you agree?

Dan29

northern_munky wrote:

Dan29, any terrace house is going to be the same width as a car, which means you'll only get one car at each house. We have two cars but we park one down the road and I wouldnt dream of parking one at my next door neighbours and that applies to him too, that would be just plain selfish, wouldnt you agree?

No, I think it's first come first served, and this seems to work for everyone else in our street. Why should my neighbours park further down the road if there's a space outside my house free and I'm out for the evening? If they leave the space outside my house free someone who doesn't live in our street could come and park in it..!