Is it illegal to park on the pavement

Ghostrider

It can also depend how far back from the curb you are parked, some areas are not clear where the pavement stops and other land starts that may be private or other, for instance in front of a parade of shops quite often there could be red lines on the road, quite often it could all be paved the same as well.

I know of a shop I have to visit regularly that is exactly like this on the A12 and is regularly policed and is marked with red lines, parking close to the shop is fine, park to close to the curb and you're in ticket territory.

Lum

legal or not.. please remember to apply the double pushchair rule... if you couldn't get one past your car without a big faff, don't park there. You may not be breaking the law, but you're still a douchebag for parking there.

And of course, wheelchair users often don't even have the option of moving onto the road to get past you unless there is a dropped curb around and it's one of those rare ones that are actually dropped properly.

If you can get a double pushchair (and by extension, a wheelchair) past without any problem, go for it..

Sgt_Pepper_2

Lum wrote: »

legal or not.. please remember to apply the double pushchair rule... if you couldn't get one past your car without a big faff, don't park there. You may not be breaking the law, but you're still a douchebag for parking there.

And of course, wheelchair users often don't even have the option of moving onto the road to get past you unless there is a dropped curb around and it's one of those rare ones that are actually dropped properly.

If you can get a double pushchair (and by extension, a wheelchair) past without any problem, go for it..

You are breaking the law if you are adjacent to yellow lines.

Lum

My post wasn't about a point of law (hence language like "legal or not..." and "may not be breaking the law"), nor was it about the specific pavement in the OP. Those things have already been addressed in this thread.

It was just a more general post about not inconveniencing others that needs to be made when pavement parking is discussed.

mikey72

Lum wrote: »

legal or not.. please remember to apply the double pushchair rule... if you couldn't get one past your car without a big faff, don't park there. You may not be breaking the law, but you're still a douchebag for parking there.

And of course, wheelchair users often don't even have the option of moving onto the road to get past you unless there is a dropped curb around and it's one of those rare ones that are actually dropped properly.

If you can get a double pushchair (and by extension, a wheelchair) past without any problem, go for it..

I always tried to get my pushchair down the sides of cars the had parked on the pavement. With reflection, it probaly was a bit antisocial, but then again, so was parking blocking the pavements. I called the local bobby for quite a few, he always came out.

Ghostrider

Lum wrote: »

legal or not.. please remember to apply the double pushchair rule... if you couldn't get one past your car without a big faff, don't park there. You may not be breaking the law, but you're still a douchebag for parking there.

And of course, wheelchair users often don't even have the option of moving onto the road to get past you unless there is a dropped curb around and it's one of those rare ones that are actually dropped properly.

If you can get a double pushchair (and by extension, a wheelchair) past without any problem, go for it..

Used to just be a "pushchair"

Cars and kids accessories get bigger apparently but the pavements have always stayed the same size.

Lum

Problem with the pushchair test is a pushchair is narrower than a wheelchair, and they're the ones that suffer the most due to inconsiderate pavement parking.

Double pushchair test also makes room for a wheelchair while still taking into account that the wheelchair user's hands and elbows need to fit through as well, but it's a lot easier to remember double pushchair than wheelchair + elbow room.

Plus, you know, people with two kids do tend to buy double pushchairs.

Ghostrider

Come to think of it, I don't reckon a double pushchair would actually even fit on the pavement outside my house even without a car parked in the way...

But then I always park on the pavement to keep out of the way of other vehicles using my road which (and no offence meant here to anybody) there is a far far greater percentage of people using the road that i'd block than people using the footpath with double buggies and wheelchairs, so its the lesser of 2 evils really.

The law aside, parking always comes down to using a bit of common sense, which unfortunately people often confuse with whats best for them.

mikey72

Ghostrider wrote: »

Come to think of it, I don't reckon a double pushchair would actually even fit on the pavement outside my house even without a car parked in the way...

But then I always park on the pavement to keep out of the way of other vehicles using my road which (and no offence meant here to anybody) there is a far far greater percentage of people using the road that i'd block than people using the footpath with double buggies and wheelchairs, so its the lesser of 2 evils really.

The law aside, parking always comes down to using a bit of common sense, which unfortunately people often confuse with whats best for them.

I always felt the urge to run over cars on the pavement when I was younger. I resisted, until I felt obliged not to walk in the road with our buggy, then I do now give in to a push test. I'll swear some mirrors haven't folded in since they left the factory. The automatic ones take the fun out a bit now.