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

bod1467

stephen77 wrote: »

The council complained were I used to work about parking on the pavement.
It was a on industrial estate with no residential housing.
The plaices of work all had disabled parking.

So while the parking did make it hard for disabled people to walk along. The only people ever walking along there were people coming to work.
The next plaice to convenient plaice to park was about 15 minute walk away and a dodgy housing estate. If everyone said parking there then the residents would have complained and then you would have to park even further away.


Thus just encase 1 disabled person might go past once a year. Your want 1/2 a work force to have a 30 minute walk every day for that year.
There was many other routes for the disabled people to take around the industrial estate that would be no further in distance to take, that are nicer routes as well.

There's something fishy about this story.

NBLondon

Those Victorian and Edwardian developers just didn't think about future inventions did they :cool:

Here in London, the rules are different but I have seen various places where parking with 2 wheels on pavement is both necessary and approved by the council (example). In others, it seems to be that once one person does it, everybody does it and it becomes the custom unless the council intervene.

What really gets my goat is the people who drive into a large car park e.g. Bluewater and still park over walkways. Not because it is full but because they are just too bloody lazy and arrogant to walk more than 10 yards. In Sainsbury at New Cross there is a blue Nissan which does this weekly - even if there are spaces nearer the door ???

lazer

MamaMoo wrote: »

One of the women who has moved in locally insists on parking on the pavement outside her house, despite having space for two cars on the empty driveway!
I got fed up of having to walk in the road with a pram and a 3 year old in tow, so when I saw her parking there one day (where she could see I was approaching and clearly left no room for me to pass) I asked her politely if she could either park in the road or on her driveway. I explained as she lives about 100m away from the local school and shopping area, that it was a common thoroughfare for prams and parents with kids who were now having to walk into the road.
She, not so politely, told me to eff off.

Next time I passed her car I decided to shove past on the pavement with my two kids, one in a pram. I also declined to tell off my one year old when he high fived her wing mirror out of place.

According to her next door neighbour (who's an old family friend) some woman with a pram refused to walk in the road, knocked the door to ask if she'd move the car, and got a load of abuse. The woman then proceeded to squeeze past the car shearing a load of paint off.

The car now lives on the driveway.

So you think its ok for your child to damage someone's property - regardless of how the car was parked - it is not ok to damage property.

I used to park half on the pavement, half off it, as when previously i parked fully on the road - my wing mirrors got damaged reguarly and the car got scratched (mainly by people getting in and out of taxi's)
I lived on a street of terrace houses off a main road which was restricted to 1 hours parking, no parking duiring peak times etc.
I honestly don't know how far away I would have to have parked so as not to ahve to park ahlf on the pavement. - but it would ahve been at least 30 minutes walk away

There was a back alley - but you couldn't park in - was for bins only - not really wide enough for cars.

doughnutmachine

lazer wrote: »

So you think its ok for your child to damage someone's property - regardless of how the car was parked - it is not ok to damage property.

if someone parks on a pavement and forces pedestrians to walk on the road I think it fair game to force myself between the car and house... if my coat zip accidentally brushes against the car it's hardly my fault.

tbh, sometimes two wrongs do make a right...

lazer

doughnutmachine wrote: »

if someone parks on a pavement and forces pedestrians to walk on the road I think it fair game to force myself between the car and house... if my coat zip accidentally brushes against the car it's hardly my fault.

tbh, sometimes two wrongs do make a right...

A coat zip wouldn't damage a car and 2 wrongs never make a right.

Real accidental damage is one thing (not pretending someting is accidental) - high fiving a wing mirror and knocking it off is criminal damage.

Is it right to teach a child - someone has parked where they shouldn't - so it is fine to damge their car? Do you apply this to all walks of life - or just badly parked cars?

You should take all reasonable steps to avoid damaging someones property - and if you accidenially damge someones property if you are trying to avoid you - you should admit the damage and take repsonsibility for it.
If you are so convinced it is fine to damage a car while squeezing past it - don't be afraid to give the car owner your details and I'm sure you would win in court if they tried to sue you - or would you?

geri1965_2

Geodark wrote: »

I live in a terraced house, with a small drive at the front just big enough for a car. Unfortunately people tend to park opposite the drive making it near on impossible for me to get the car in or out - so as a result I have to park on the pavement so that I can park in front of the house. other than parking a few streets away, which isnt practical as I have a young son, I don't have any other option.

Of course you have another option - you can park a few streets a way and walk to the house with your young son. The exercise might you do you both good!

Geodark

stephen77 wrote: »

They have not said there is not enough room for people to get past.
They have just parked on the pavement.

Yup, I leave plenty of room for wheelchairs, pushchairs etc to walk past.

Geodark

geri1965 wrote: »

Of course you have another option - you can park a few streets a way and walk to the house with your young son. The exercise might you do you both good!

And how do you know what the parking is like round where I live? how do you know what the rest of the streets are like? And how do you know what exercise I get.

The only problem with this site is that there are so many keyboard warriors. There are some good people on here but at times it feels like everyone is out to get a rise from everyone else.

MamaMoo_2

lazer wrote: »

So you think its ok for your child to damage someone's property - regardless of how the car was parked - it is not ok to damage property.

Not at all. It was more of him pushing it out of the way so it didn't smack him in the face as we squeezed past her idiotically parked car.
It's also not criminal damage either, as it just meant 30 seconds inconvenience for the silly woman to reposition it, it wasn't knocked off. For criminal damage something has to be, erm, damaged...

And you know what, if my zip or pram or child had damaged her car, tough! Don't repeatedly park on a pavement on a direct route to the local primary school when you have a double driveway! And then certainly don't tell a mother to F-off when she politely asks you to move the car.

She wasn't just two wheels up, I'd say a good 75% of her car was parked on the pavement.

My children are both told to leave other people's cars alone, but if said car wants to block their safe passage home, then the owner clearly needs to learn a lesson. I didn't actively encourage it, and it isn't something I regularly come across, but yeah, if a car is blocking your way and the driver's an arrogant git, inconvenience them a bit by folding their wing mirror in! Cars have roads and driveways, me and my children have pavements to walk on. If you want to park your car on the pavement like an inconsiderate donkey, then accept the consequences.

stephen77

geri1965 wrote: »

Of course you have another option - you can park a few streets a way and walk to the house with your young son. The exercise might you do you both good!

Well then the exercise may do some one good to walk round the car then.