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

peter_the_piper

tuggy12 wrote: »

Obviously an emergency !!


These Women's Institutes are well known for Anti Social behaviour, drug dealing etc.

Maybe he's/she's giving a talk on parking.

scheming_gypsy

Torry_Quine wrote: »

That may be how people put their bins out where you are but it's a new one on me. Certainly here we take our bins from the back garden and leave them on the pavement in front of the house for collection and that's all I've seen in other areas.

If the bins aren't put out the front then why is the bin lorry going that way?

Common sense hasn't made its way to your neck of the woods then.

Which other way would it be going? they're terraced houses where the bins will be together at the bottom of the back street seeing as the truck can't drive down the back street - as we've already established from the other pics.

there's an obvious trend on this thread that separates us into two groups of people. Group A are the people who think it's acceptable and Group B who don't.
Group A - think it's acceptable but the driver needs to respect pedestrians and not block the pavement.
Group B - think that anybody who thinks it's ok to park on the pavement is a child eating Nazi. Group B are also very blinkered and will carry on using the same argument regardless of any evidence put in front of them.

scheming_gypsy

earthstorm wrote: »

as i stated the bin lorry most likely was only passing down that street to get to its next collection

and as I told you they're not collected on different days.

You've already told us that you live in a mining town where the back streets are wide enough to park down, so you don't live where the pictures were taken. I've also told you that the street is near where I live so stop making things up when you have no idea of the area.

Torry_Quine

earthstorm wrote: »

thats how most bins are collected, as i stated the bin lorry most likely was only passing down that street to get to its next collection

I would have thought so but that's not what scheming_gypsy said and it's their area.

scheming_gypsy wrote: »

Common sense hasn't made its way to your neck of the woods then.

Which other way would it be going? they're terraced houses where the bins will be together at the bottom of the back street seeing as the truck can't drive down the back street - as we've already established from the other pics.

there's an obvious trend on this thread that separates us into two groups of people. Group A are the people who think it's acceptable and Group B who don't.
Group A - think it's acceptable but the driver needs to respect pedestrians and not block the pavement.
Group B - think that anybody who thinks it's ok to park on the pavement is a child eating Nazi. Group B are also very blinkered and will carry on using the same argument regardless of any evidence put in front of them.

If the truck has to drive down the street then what's wrong with putting the bins at the front where it passes?

As for your description of those of us who think it wrong to park on the pavement, somewhat over the top!

scheming_gypsy

well i do like to be over dramatic but you all seem to be against it in every circumstance.

In rows that that where they have to bring the bin out of the back yard, down the back street and half way up the street; if there's an area at the bottom of the back street (like in some of the pictures) they'll put them all there. That just means that the binmen stop in one place, empty the bins and put them back in the same place, rather than stopping in numerous places down the street...
I live at the back of a new estate. The semis / detached all have side entrances to their gardens so they can put the bin outside their house but the rest of us in the apartments / terraced houses (or mews as they like to call them), all our back gardens lead to the car park. We just pull them out and leave them lined up together, and the same for a lot of other streets.
My mum lives in an old Victorian terraced but as the bin truck can get to the entrance to the back street, they all leave them outside the back gate and the bin men collect and take them back to the back gate, The only time I see bins outside the front of houses is if they can get them their through the garden (or if the kitchen is at the front)

lazer

stephen77 wrote: »

If you left room for people to walk past. Then its wrong to damage the car.

If you have not left enough room for some one to get past then its a fair game. As a pedestrian I do not want to walk in a road as its dangerous. I will not damage a car on purpose, but if I clip it by accident and it get scratched, then I will not feel guilty about it.

I am not sure how much space you left when you parked.

I have now bought a house with room for 4 cars in a rural area - so no more worrying about where to park.

Did i leave enough room to walk - yes (or at least tried to - but give the number of overgrown hedges and the narrow paths and how difficult it was to park - sometimes it would probably have been tight to walk down with a buggy or pram)

Did i feel guilty about parking on the pavement - no - it was the only choice.

I think if you have a grievance with parking take it to your council - do not damage the cars!

doughnutmachine

lazer wrote: »

Did i leave enough room to walk - yes (or at least tried to - but give the number of overgrown hedges and the narrow paths and how difficult it was to park - sometimes it would probably have been tight to walk down with a buggy or pram)

Did i feel guilty about parking on the pavement - no - it was the only choice.

I think if you have a grievance with parking take it to your council - do not damage the cars!

tbh, I find it a bit ironic that you are admitting that you have blocked pavements with your car while at the same time having details of your diet plan in your signature.

could you not have parked further away and walked a bit further....

tbh, you come across as being inconsiderate.

lazer

doughnutmachine wrote: »

tbh, I find it a bit ironic that you are admitting that you have blocked pavements with your car while at the same time having details of your diet plan in your signature.

could you not have parked further away and walked a bit further....

tbh, you come across as being inconsiderate.

Did you read my first post -

I was on a street off a main road (which had parking restrictions) and heading towards the city centre - parking in the side streets was also restricted, and in the other direction the next 20 or so streets were all narrow side streets, so there was no where to park that wasn't a narrow side street for over a mile. - The parking difficulties were all mentioned in my first post.

I had no desire to come home from work after 9pm and walk for a mile on my own - it's not really very safe now is it.

Also - it has nothing to do with my diet plan - I don't live there anymore and have more than enough room to park my car now, but even if I still lived there I would not be walking for over a mile to get to my car to go to work at 8am and over a mile coming home from work at anytime up to 10pm - my safety is important to me.

As you can ascertain from this - my car was only really parked there overnight when it is very unlikely there would be people with buggys and prams walking around.

I also asked our local council to consider making the roads one way as it would ahve helped the parking.

I think it's inconsiderate that people on this forum have advocated that its fair game to "accidentially" cars parked on pavements.

To answer the OP's post as to why people park on pavements - because sometimes there just is no viable alternative and we jsut have to park ther and leave as much room as possible.

I would love to have not had a car and been able to walk to work or get public transport but our public transpor options were absolutely rubbish and I don't believe it is safe for people to be walking around on their own late at night in many areas.

Fosterdog

sulphate wrote: »

Not everyone can "time" their shopping trips right so they don't block the road/pavement. Some people have to do their shopping on their own (cos, y'know, not everyone has a partner) and can't just dump their shopping down on the pavement then go and park their car 3 streets away.

I assume this one is aimed at me because it's what I said we used to do. Just so you know, you don't need a partner to help with this and no shopping was left on a pavement while the car was parked.

It's pretty simple really, the car would pull up, timing it for non school rush times. The front door of the house would be opened, shopping quickly unloaded from the car and put safely inside the house, then front door would be locked while car is parked a few streets away, then home to put the shopping away. Easily achieved by one person.

And before saying it's no good leaving fresh and frozen food, how do you think people using public transport cope? A few extra minutes out of the fridge/freezer won't make the slightest difference.

We also had no problem parking a few streets away and getting four kids and two dogs in and out of the car and walking to and from the house. People are just making excuses for laziness.

doughnutmachine

lazer wrote: »

I think it's inconsiderate that people on this forum have advocated that its fair game to "accidentially" cars parked on pavements.

but it's ok to park a car on a pavement and make pedestrians walk on a road....

if someone is in the habit of parking on a pavement (and making life difficult for pedestrians) they are more likely to stop doing so if they continually find their wing mirrors knocked and scratches appearing on their bodywork.

I park on pavements myself, but I always leave space for a pram etc.