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

Honey_Bear

I'm told it's this: traffic wardens are responsible for enforcing the law on the roads. The police are only really interested in reported crime.

Neither of them is in the slightest bit bothered by anyone doing anything if it doesn't 1) break a law 2) bother anyone enough to whinge in a public forum about it.

Around here in the city centre, if you overstay your welcome on a legal parking meter space by 10 minutes, you'll get slapped with a ticket. If you park on a pavement 24 hours a day, seven days a week, you're totally immune from any kind of sanction. Why wouldn't you park on the pavement?

Elsewhere

It seems to me that if a car is parked on a pavement then as a pedestrian you are entitled to regard that car as the pavement and walk straight over it.

scheming_gypsy

Elsewhere wrote: »

It seems to me that if a car is parked on a pavement then as a pedestrian you are entitled to regard that car as the pavement and walk straight over it.

does the same apply for people and prams?

MamaMoo_2

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.

martinthebandit

Well personally the excuses posted for doing it all seem to basically boil down to 'so I can park as close as possible to my house'

I know your not going to stop doing it but please can you make sure that you leave more than enough room for a wheelchair to get past especially if there are no dropped curbs near.

Than you

(Please be aware though that I will still think you are selfish and inconsiderate)

Money-Saving-King

martinthebandit wrote: »

(Please be aware though that I will still think you are selfish and inconsiderate)

Why?

Because in the vast majority of cases I've seen of this you can still get a wheelchair through.

In the particular street near me I'm thinking of there is nowhere else for the home owners to park.

prowla

It's okay to park with a wheel on the pavement if it doesn't block the pavement.

But taking up the whole pavement is just plain bad manners.

There should be a rule that you have to leave the width of a double pushchair free.

JReacher1

martinthebandit wrote: »

Well personally the excuses posted for doing it all seem to basically boil down to 'so I can park as close as possible to my house'

I know your not going to stop doing it but please can you make sure that you leave more than enough room for a wheelchair to get past especially if there are no dropped curbs near.

Than you

(Please be aware though that I will still think you are selfish and inconsiderate)

Would you still be inconsiderate if you parked on the pavement outside your house if you're disabled and want to park near your own home?

peter_the_piper

You often hear, from councils, that it damages the services under the pavements. If that's so why are the roads often blocked with road works?

knightstyle

Blame the planners!!!! We live in one of 12 4 bed townhouses, at the end of a close facing a turning area so no parking there, each house has room for one car on the drive. The road is too narrow to park on so everyone goes half on the pavement leading up to the turning area. There is no other option and yellow lines everywhere else.
Why was this allowed? No visitors parking places! Built in 2006.