Woman had a go at me this morning

Sambucus_Nigra

You should have driven up and blocked her in; that would have got her moving!

Voyager2002

Why not get a bicycle? Otherwise, if you can afford to run a car you can afford to pay for proper parking.

toniq

Our street on the edge of a town centre is now a permit only zone, so i pay for the privilege to park in the street!

Before they started permit parking it was a nightmare, my car would be boxed in by 8:30am and if i went out i couldn't park anywhere near my house so had to trudge shopping and a young child from neighbouring streets back to mine. Which if it was my weekly shop was madness as I couldn't leave my child in the house as i kept returning to car, so it took ages to do a simple chuck my shopping into house.

I do begrudge having to pay but it is miles better than the situation before, you couldn't cross the road with a child as the street would be boxed with vans, cars etc.

I can kinda see the ladies point though she has no legal right, it's just infuriating when you can't park anywhere near your home.

Wh05apk

This annoys me when people buy a house without a drive, and assume they have a "right" to park outside it, my house has a drive, I could grass over it and park in the road, but I would not like to obstruct anyone. The same principle for residents only permits, again, if they buy an unsuitable property with no parking, why should they have the right to a prime towncentre (normally) parking space on the cheap?

toniq

Every case is different we bought our mid terraced from the council several years ago, the front isn't big enough for a drive, hence we have to park in the street.

I live on a road which leads to the M23 and a Junction or 2 from the M25 so it's hectic to say the least.

shaun_from_Africa

if you can afford to run a car you can afford to pay for proper parking.

Why pay for something if you don't have to?

The government takes £ billions from car owners each year so I don't see anything wrong in using a road that was paid for the motorists, and providing that it is legal to do so, parking outside someone else's property is "proper parking".

mikey72

toniq wrote: »

Our street on the edge of a town centre is now a permit only zone, so i pay for the privilege to park in the street!

Before they started permit parking it was a nightmare, my car would be boxed in by 8:30am and if i went out i couldn't park anywhere near my house so had to trudge shopping and a young child from neighbouring streets back to mine. Which if it was my weekly shop was madness as I couldn't leave my child in the house as i kept returning to car, so it took ages to do a simple chuck my shopping into house.

I do begrudge having to pay but it is miles better than the situation before, you couldn't cross the road with a child as the street would be boxed with vans, cars etc.

I can kinda see the ladies point though she has no legal right, it's just infuriating when you can't park anywhere near your home.

I agree with you. It's a b*gger on your day off, or if you're shift working, and you know if you nip out in the car, you won't be able to park when you come home again.
Or if you don't go out they squeeze so close behind you, you have to sit on their bonnet to open the tailgate, or pass all the boxes/furniture/whatever you took the day off to get and unload onto the front of their car, then walk round to take it in.

Norman_Castle

I appreciate it must be irritating to have commuters parking there, ultimately, that's just tough imo.

What do you think? Was she being unreasonable? Was I unreasonable?

I think she needs to arrange a residents only parking scheme in her road.


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mikey72

Norman_Castle wrote: »

I think she needs to arrange a residents only parking scheme in her road.

It's win win for the local council then. Fess for the permits, fines for the commuters.

Mark_Hewitt

I have people parking in front of my house, it's the closest unrestricted free space to the town centre. So sometimes I have to park around the corner. It's annoying but nowhere near as annoying as having to deal with residents only parking.