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

Prothet_of_Doom

2 words : Play streets. What we need is, to get rid of the road.

Geodark

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.

Elsewhere

aileth wrote: »

There has been a new doctor's surgery built near us. To come down our road from the tram/bus, you have to walk past it and cross the entrance. There is a dropped kerb of course on the other side as you cross, and I would say maybe 80% of times I walk home from work someone is parked on the pavement across the entire dropped kerb.

These drivers wouldn't get away with it in Swanage, where I am. For instance, there is a tiny bit of dropped kerb - pedestrian width - not very obvious and not connected to a driveway (I understand its intended for wheelchair/mobility scooters belonging to a nearby care home) - which is notorious locally for catching drivers out with a parking ticket.

There's a huge document about Dorset's parking policy if anyone wants some bedtime reading .

http://www.dorsetforyou.com/media.jsp?mediaid=156999&filetype=pdf

Kildare

stephen77 wrote: »

This is not the easiest thing to boycott.
Your looking for a house that's in the right location, price range, number of beds, nice garden etc. The only issue you have is that you would have to park your car so its over the kerb.
Would you honestly say. I am not interested in this house and go elsewhere? especially if the next house was like £10,000 more to buy.
For most people this is not a deal breaker in finding a house.

ITs not like boycotting coke a cola and going for Pepsi instead.
Or planners building houses with a shared toilet etc.

Actually I'm house hunting at the moment and it is a deal breaker for me! Need to have space for 2 cars minimum (1 in garage, 1 in front or 2 on drive etc.) as I want to make sure my visitors have somewhere to park. When I've looked at newer builds I always check if there's enough parking and if not, does it have a front garden I can convert. When I see houses online with zero parking (e.g. Victorians) I always think, who would buy that knowing every night will be a fight to get parked!!

KxMx

I do laugh at car owners assertion that they need the pavements for parking.
So roads for cars, and pavements for cars, where exactly does that leave the pedestrian/buggy/wheelchair?

(no problem btw if a car leaves enough room for all of the above to pass)

stephen77

Kildare wrote: »

Actually I'm house hunting at the moment and it is a deal breaker for me! Need to have space for 2 cars minimum (1 in garage, 1 in front or 2 on drive etc.) as I want to make sure my visitors have somewhere to park. When I've looked at newer builds I always check if there's enough parking and if not, does it have a front garden I can convert. When I see houses online with zero parking (e.g. Victorians) I always think, who would buy that knowing every night will be a fight to get parked!!

Is there much price difference to get the extra car parking spot for your visitors?

Kildare

stephen77 wrote: »

Is there much price difference to get the extra car parking spot for your visitors?

I've found there isn't much difference in my area to go for a house with parking for 2 cars vs. similar house with only space for 1. It tends to be the newer properties (2005 onwards) which are built with very little parking space. In the part of town I like most of the roads were built 1980-2008, the 1980s-1990s houses have much better road layouts, usually with parking for 2 cars on the drive (or 1 in garage 1 in front) and are built with visitor bays which hold 2 cars. Rare to see a car parked up the curb. The new stuff we struggled to even drive down so I have no idea how anyone would ever get a buggy / wheel chair along them!!

I don't know how this would compare to Victorian no parking style as I automatically ruled them out.

I think it's crazy that they allow new developments to be built without ample parking when we live in a world where people have more and more cars!

stephen77

KxMx wrote: »

I do laugh at car owners assertion that they need the pavements for parking.
So roads for cars, and pavements for cars, where exactly does that leave the pedestrian/buggy/wheelchair?

(no problem btw if a car leaves enough room for all of the above to pass)

If I have parked on the pavement. Its common sense to let pedestrian past will ample room or you will get your car doors scratched and wing mirror hit a lot.

I will park on the pavement when parking. If I feel there is not enough room on the road to let a fire engine past, if so then its not a suitable parking spot.
Always leave enough room for fire engines.

If I meet the above two criteria's are met, then I will park in that spot. I.e. not inhibiting pedestrians and fire engines.

fluffnutter

Much of our road system simply wasn't designed to accommodate so many cars. So that leaves conflict between differing priorities. What to do? Park partially on the pavement meaning that those in wheelchairs or with prams will find passing difficult or park fully on the road meaning that an emergency vehicle such as an ambulance or fire engine can't pass? It's simply unrealistic to expect people to not park outside their houses. We chose to let the car dominate modern life, we deal with the consequences.

As with most things it's too easy to say *this* is wrong. It depends. Sometimes there's other stuff that's 'wronger'.

prowla

kalaika wrote: »

I think most people are happy to differentiate between someone who parks on the pavement but leaves plenty of space for buggies/wheelchairs to pass, and someone who parks on the pavement blocking it completely.

Yes, I agree.