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

scheming_gypsy

no it doesn't. It shows that you can park a couple of cars there. To park in the back lane you need to be able to get two cars down it side by side or they're just parking in a line where they can't get out without all the others moving.
If you really want, I'll go and take a picture of the back lane with my car parked in it.

paddedjohn

scheming_gypsy wrote: »

People can park in the back street but by people i mean one car - at the entrance because if it parked any further back it'd get blocked in. There's only one way into the back street as there's a laundrette just to the left of the car so the back street doesn't go all the way through.

The entrance is


So people can't park there as the other houses have garages. You can see how much space there is for people to get past and the first car on the right on the first picture...



so loads of room. although the most sensible idea would have been to make the road wider instead of a narrow road and wide pavements

The pavement on the left of the bottom pic cold be marked for car parking with no detriment to pedestrians who could easily cross over and use the other one.

scheming_gypsy

It's only big enough for one car. It's just really an island as the road around it is an entrance to a school (i think)

earthstorm

so these days with Wheelie bins, you have cars that take half the footpath and then on bin collection days you have the other half of the path take up by the wheelie bin, so now pedestrians have to walk on the road

scheming_gypsy

earthstorm wrote: »

so these days with Wheelie bins, you have cars that take half the footpath and then on bin collection days you have the other half of the path take up by the wheelie bin, so now pedestrians have to walk on the road

I don't want to state the obvious, but in picture 1 there's a bin wagon. so it's clearly bin collection day when the Google camera car went down the street.... where are the wheelie bins outside the houses in the other pics when the car got to the end of the street?

earthstorm

scheming_gypsy wrote: »

I don't want to state the obvious, but in picture 1 there's a bin wagon. so it's clearly bin collection day when the Google camera car went down the street.... where are the wheelie bins outside the houses in the other pics when the car got to the end of the street?

the bin wagon in the pic does not prove it was bin day on that street, it could have been travelling to it designated round having to pass along that street

scheming_gypsy

not where it was. If a bin wagon was going down there then it's bin day. Plus, logic would dictate that people aren't going to drag their bin from their back yard and stick it by their front door. They'll all get dumped together; just like my street where everybody lines them up at the entrance to the car park to make it easier for the binmen

suelizab

I park on the pavement. All drivers park on the pavements in my area.

Sometimes it's a close thing- you nearly cant open your bl..dy front door .

People use the road to walk down, so do wheelchair users .

I suppose we could all give up our cars and use the bus? not likely .

That's life, tough .

stephen77

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.

Tryingagainandagain

JReacher1 wrote: »

Have you seem a terrace house before? They often have alleys but very few terraces have off street parking behind them. If they did then people wouldn't park on the street!

Not so sure about that - I used to live on a housing estate where many people had garages plus drives that could accommodate two cars nose to tail.
The garages were generally full of stuff and people would not park on the drive as they might have to move one car to let the other car get out.

At least they could "block" their own drive with one of their cars - not possible in some of the old terraces with narrow streets.

I understand the problem, but if I am walking along a poorly lit road in the dark and rain while all the cars are safe on the pavement I get annoyed.