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

BJV

When we bought our house we could park half on and half off the pavement. The pavements are huge. It is the main drag to the beach so in some places the pavement is larger than the road. It is an old house with a very small drive but it was ok as even parking half on and half off.

About three years ago the local council decided that it looked unsightly!!! So now as well as not being able to change or pave our front gardens we can not park half on half off.

In that time we have had two accidents on my car and my husbands smashed into.

sharnad

JReacher1 wrote: »

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.

You need more than room than cars leave sometimes

stephen77

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!

If you have not left enough room, you only have yourself to blame as people will try and get past with out pushing there pram into the overgrown hedge. Especially if its been raining and the hedge is all wet.

What can the council actually do? I do not want Yellow lines all down the side of the roads to stop people parking on the road as well.
Just enough space to get a buggy / wheel chair through.

My grievance will be at the time I am walking past. Not by the time the council have read my letter.

MamaMoo_2

lazer wrote: »

Did you read 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 to "accidentially" cars parked on pavements.

Oh, so because you think it's unsafe to walk a mile twice a day (you may wish to address your paranoia, by the way) you decide to create a hazard for parents and disabled people, forcing them off of the pavement that exists for them to use, and into a road and possibly into the path of a car if they're a bit on the slow side, which is likely given the type of people you're affecting.

Now THAT is inconsiderate! "I value my own safety above everyone else's so I will avoid doing something that is highly unlikely to ever have negative or dangerous consequences by forcing people to do something that is potentially much more dangerous!

Case and point, I walk several miles daily, I'm fine from that. If I walked in the road all day because everyone had your point of view I'd most likely end up splattered.

earthstorm

Roads were designed for Motor Vehicles

Public FOOTPATHS were designed for pedestrians (a person walking rather than travelling in a vehicle.) they were not designed as carparks.

also think about it, your car half on footpath and half on road, so car not on level surface, which eventually damages the wheel balance

sharnad

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.

So you choose to do something wrong to give yourself an easier life

GwylimT

I never park on pavements, firstly I don't want to end up knackering my wheel alignment and my car isn't actually a pedestrian.

If you are a car owner and you choose to rent or buy a home without parking that doesn't give you the right to park on the pavement, you either park sensibly elsewhere or get rid of your car, no one has actually forced you to rent or buy a house without private parking have they.

I once lived in a lovely terraced house where the bay windows actually extended out onto the pavement, there were six houses in this lane, it wasn't a through road. A few months later someone moved in next door, a couple with three cars. They for some reason as car owners chose to rent a property that didn't have any parking, so clearly, they weren't exactly the sharpest crayons in the box.

They decided it would be a really good idea to park on the pavement and completely block the road to taxi's, the bin men and the emergency services. Not only did they block the road they often decided it was a really good idea to block my front door so I couldn't get in or out of my house. While they would have still been blocking the road if they had just parked on the road the pavement could be accessed, and while still not ideal if someone was taken ill then at least a stretcher could actually reach that persons property, but the two thicko's weren't capable of parking next to a brick wall, too challenging apparently.

One of the residents was getting very very annoyed, she decided to 'accidentally' let a bonfire get out of hand (she was a bit odd), it wasn't near to damaging anyone's property, but it meant that it was incredibly difficult for the firemen and so a few weeks later there were some lovely double yellow lines painted on the road and the warden regularly visited the street.

If you choose to park in a way that either prevents people from safely using pavements or prevents other road users accessing the road you are a selfish idiot, it really is that simple.

GwylimT

sharnad wrote: »

So you choose to do something wrong to give yourself an easier life

If Geodark is unable to pull out of his/her driveway, they must also be unable to navigate their way out of a parking bay, so I'm not sure where they would be taking the car anyway.

Geodark

GwylimT wrote: »

If Geodark is unable to pull out of his/her driveway, they must also be unable to navigate their way out of a parking bay, so I'm not sure where they would be taking the car anyway.

Oh do shut up, the reason I can't get off the drive is that the drive is only the width of a car, I have people parking directly opposite my drive and to the left and right of the drive - they don't leave enough of a gap to get the car out. At least with a parking space there tends to room to manoeuvre the car once you start to pull out of the space.

Anyway, give your carer the keyboard back and let the grown ups talk...

zaksmum

So many people seem oblivious to dropped kerbs too.

When I'm on my mobility scooter, if I reach a dropped kerb that some idiot has parked on, I'm unable to go any further.

I have to turn round and go back the way I came till I find another dropped kerb. Unlike a pram or wheelchair with someone to assist, I just cannot get down a kerb that isn't dropped, so it's a massive inconvenience.