Reserving spaces on a public road

1886

What's the deal with some people thinking that they can put cones outside their house and reserve parking on a public road?

Everybody else on the street has to park wherever there's a space, most of the time not outside there own house.

System

Is that not what they did in "Bread?"

Its very chavvy. I personally would steal the cones.

ThumbRemote

Just go for a walk one evening when they are out and take the cones along with you.

Or pop them into their wheelie bin on collection day.

pulliptears

There was a bloke who used to do that by my old Dr's surgery, he had a drive big enough for 3 cars but always put a cone on the road outside his house.
Of course it was a beacon to me, I'd always move it and park there just to annoy him.

Azari

I lived near someone who did this and for some reason it slightly annoyed me.

So one day I moved his bins (which is what he used to 'reserve' his spot).

I didn't see what happened when he returned to find the space taken but I did happen to notice when the new occupier drove off and the chappie rushed out and moved his car back into its 'rightful' place.

It was obviously something that really worried him so I didn't do it again.

1886

I can totally see why people do it if they're having a skip delivered or a removal van is coming but to do it to reserve parking for themselves is really, really ignorant..

I think moving the cones is funny, maybe a word could be written out of the cones lol

Azari

1886 wrote: »

I can totally see why people do it if they're having a skip delivered or a removal van is coming but to do it to reserve parking for themselves is really, really ignorant..

I'm guessing that in some cases it's because of past vandalism and they just feel safer if the car is where they can see it. (Although they can't monitor it all the time.)

apesxx

Azari wrote: »

I'm guessing that in some cases it's because of past vandalism and they just feel safer if the car is where they can see it. (Although they can't monitor it all the time.)

nope i think its more that some people have this belief that the piece of road directly outside their house is theirs and only they can park there. I was at a meeting other night and some guy come in complaining asking for the driver of 'xxx' reg to move their car as they were parked in his parking space. Not a disabled space or allocated parking or anything, just the normal on road parking along that street.

aileth

Haha I have to say it is a bit of a red flag to a bull! Although I couldn't really blame people who lived, for example, near football stadiums and so get swarmed with match day parkers blocking drives. I used to live down a steep terraced hill where it seemed everyone had 2-3 cars per household. Sometimes I had to park on totally different streets, or half the mile up the road. It came with the territory of not having a drive and just something to get on with. They own the house, not the road in front of the house!

Ich_2

Seems to me that this could be classed as causing an obstruction and is possibly an offence within the Road Traffic Acts.

OrkneyStar

Azari wrote: »

I'm guessing that in some cases it's because of past vandalism and they just feel safer if the car is where they can see it. (Although they can't monitor it all the time.)

Or having parked it in the spaces across from our row of houses and a shed roof land on it on in a gale and nearly write it off? I try to park not in a direct line away from that shed anymore, and ideally outside our house......;):cool: