People that park their cars on pavements.....

martinthebandit

Why?

Have they no idea how many problems they cause to people with buggies or those unfortunate enough to be in a wheelchair?

Anyone who does it care to explain the reasoning behind it?

paddedjohn

People probably do it because they can, as long as they leave room for pedestrians and they are outside of London then no law is being broken unless any other local restrictions forbid it.I personally can't see the point, cars belong on the road and if that's too narrow for your car then you should park elsewhere.

JReacher1

Roads in this country can be very narrow. If you don't park on the pavement then you can be blocking the road.

To say you just shouldn't park there is naive as if it's a residential terrace street where are the house owners meant to park?

scheming_gypsy

martinthebandit wrote: »

Anyone who does it care to explain the reasoning behind it?

Google maps > Co-operative Street Bamber Bridge. Should tell you why.

hollydays

If it's your residential road and it's narrow, you might need to park partly on pavements to avoid obstructing the road.

Fosterdog

I can understand this on narrow roads, but it still doesn't make it acceptable. The pavement is for pedestrians not for cars, what if there is a street 100 houses long and cars blocking the pavement for most of it? Are pedestrians supposed to walk in the road for the whole street?

At the end of my street the road is wide enough for parking without being on the pavement. There are three detached houses all with driveways and double garages yet all three park on the pavement and don't leave enough room to walk past. It is quite a busy road with no pavement the other side of the road.

Why does everyone feel the need to park directly outside their home anyway? We have space here but in the last house we had to park at least one street away as we lived on the main road through the village and it was all double yellows. We had to time shopping trips so we could pull up outside the house to quickly unload the bags without causing too much disruption and then park the car elsewhere before coming home to put away the shopping.

JReacher1

If there are no yellow lines then people will always park outside their own house.

Cars take up at most 50% of the pavement. Pedestrians can easy stay on the pavement. You don't need the whole pavement to be free to use it.

timbo58

Have to agree with Fosterdog, it's nice to be able to park OS your house, but it's not essential 99% of the time.

Many of the residential streets in my town are victorian terraces and semi's, they weren't built to have cars and with parking both sides there is often only a car width + 6" for other vehicles to get through the roads: no wonder most are now one way only!

I looked at quite a few houses when buying mine 3 years ago: I deliberately avoided those without off street parking, my choice.

Fosterdog

JReacher1 wrote: »

Cars take up at most 50% of the pavement. Pedestrians can easy stay on the pavement. You don't need the whole pavement to be free to use it.

Surely that depends on the width of both the car and pavement and how far onto the pavement you park?

Where I live we don't have such a thing as wide pavements (or at least they are a rare sight), they have been narrowed over the years to widen the roads and most weren't particularly wide to start with.

I never said I needed a whole pavement free to be able to use it but the way the people I mentioned park they are more like 2/3 or 3/4 of the way onto the pavement with enough room for a skinny adult or child to pass but anyone medium to large sized or carrying shopping, or pushing a buggy, or walking dogs, or in a wheelchair there is not enough room to pass easily.

Two of the three houses don't even bother to put their mirrors in and one of them has three cars outside, as I said they have a private driveway and double garages but it's too much effort for the lazy b*****s to get out to open their gates to drive in and close them again. With no pavement the other side of the road there is no choice but to walk in the road or risk damaging the cars.

SailorSam

I remember going to a residents meeting once, someone brought up the problem of people parking outside their houses when they had an empty path. They were asking the local bobby couldn't he do more to stop it. He admitted he knew it presented problems to some people but unless it got very bad the Police are more inclined to turn-a-blind-eye. He said the parked cars slowed the traffic down so there was less speeding.

Tosca3

It is actively under discussion in my road to encourage people to do it. Seems the council will put a white line down the pavement so you wont get ticketed.