Parking on the pavement - SELFISH motorists!

dell_2

wendytiggermad wrote:

. I have the same probs.. my little Lupo takes up so much space DUHHHHHH

OMG! Hope you don't live next to me! Your huge Lupo is so wide!

TVM

Gingham_Ribbon

You're not being unreasonable.

I've been having trouble with an elderly neighbour because she dives out of her house every time someone parks outside her house to tell them to move. I'd given her our phone no when I moved in incase she ever needed us but if I had to park there she'd call me up when I was in bed to move my car. She told me it was a disabled space (lie - I checked just in case) she moved her wheelie bin on to the road and she yells at you in the street. She has even walked round to our back door and banged on it carrying on.

SHE HAS A DRIVEWAY AND A GARAGE! If her son chooses not to use it that's up to them. I only park there if there's no room anywhere else but she's a complete nuisance and I'm embarrassed when she does it to my visitors. I used to be a bit scared of her and used to park on a neighbouring street rather than outside her house but I have developed some health problems and stand up for myself a bit more now.

The highways guy at the council told me she was out of order and gave me his direct line no to give her. The roads are paid for by all of us and no one has a 'right' to park directly outside their house unless they have a disabled space.

I certainly think we should be considerate and I only use her place as a last resort but there are limits.

before_hollywood

i'm going to have to stick up for motorists here i think.
i live on an estate of 1960's houses, back then cars were a luxury and it was a big thing for houses to have driveways, nowadays things have changed.
everyone has at least 1 car and of course visitors come, children have cars, many need an extra vehicle (sometimes a van) for work etc etc.
on the other side of the road, a few people park with 2 wheels on the pavement so they don't block the road (however people parking on our street for the primary school at the end of the road block it and cause a hazard and noone dares bat an eyelid).
now who is selfish???
ps- 16'' pirelli p6000s are firmly on the tarmac 95% of the time

before_hollywood

for the record- last time i did park over the road with 2 wheels on the pavement, it was because there was gas main work being done at the bottom of our driveway so i couldn't park blocking our driveway (which is what i usually do)

Norma_Desmond

:rolleyes:

gk172

before_hollywood wrote:

i'm going to have to stick up for motorists here i think.
i live on an estate of 1960's houses, back then cars were a luxury and it was a big thing for houses to have driveways, nowadays things have changed.
everyone has at least 1 car and of course visitors come, children have cars, many need an extra vehicle (sometimes a van) for work etc etc.
on the other side of the road, a few people park with 2 wheels on the pavement so they don't block the road (however people parking on our street for the primary school at the end of the road block it and cause a hazard and noone dares bat an eyelid).
now who is selfish???
ps- 16'' pirelli p6000s are firmly on the tarmac 95% of the time

Kinda the same aged street about here but the problem we have trying to drive down the road at night or the weekend sometimes is a night mare, the streets have double yellows marked in some places but they must become invisible, on the small stretch thats double yellowed sometimes ive seen 12 cars parked on both sides so they mount the pavement which makes it difficult for people to get by never mind my friend with a buggy, if the police/traffic warden came by they would have a field day but we are set back from the busy center so they dont and worst of it is just off the street round the back of the houses there are major parking bays and even lock ups (3 year waiting list) but they just dont use them becasue they might have to walk an extra couple of yards:mad: i know of someon who has a lock up at the back of there house and parks there car on the pavement leaving maybe a foot for people to get by and yes we have 2 cars but we sacraficed part of our frount garden to put a driveway in and sometimes get people parking over it and had to call the police a few times as we needed out.

Are they arrogant, lazy or just think they are above everyone including traffic wardens

parkside_stroller

The bottom line for anyone parking in a street they don't live in is that they can park legally where they like as assuming they have paid their road tax. Can understand people getting frustrated if it adds to parking difficulties in their street but there are a lot of people who also seem to think they own the public road space in front of their house when they don't. I used to live in a street where I was often inconvenienced by residents of the narrow lane round the corner parking in my street - but hey, the few extra metres I had to walk to park my car helped reduce my waistline a little.

But if its a rant that needed on this board then I have to VENT it on the BLAGGARDS who park on the pavement, my complete sympathy goes out to people with pushchairs or with toddlers walking. These selfish drivers are putting children at risk of death or serious injury by forcing them to walk onto the road to share it with drivers some of them using their mobile and/or while driving too fast. Sometimes its possible to squeeze the buggy past the car on the pavement but there's usually no chance when its a double buggy - some selfish people like me have 2 small children who need to be on the pavement.

Norma_Desmond

Hear, Hear parkside_stroller!

surfcat

If you come across a car on the pavement and can still just about squeeze your buggy past, make sure you give the wing mirror a good whack on the way!

madfrenchgirl

Well,

when i was a kid, we lived in a flat in the city centre, so no parking space. There was a public free car park where my dad used to park his Renault 21. it was only 5 minutes walk away from home.

The problem my dad was mainly facing was people nicking his hubcaps. nothin very important considering the car was more than 10 yo.

When my dad bought himself a 605, 2l, turbo PETROL (big toy for the big boy, really), he rented an underground garage underneath a development flat building. The entrance was located at the end of a small car park. Free car park. It used to be filled up simply because there a trendy Levi's jeans shop just right next to the entrance to the garage.

the thing to say is, you had to walk through the big gate, and there was only one entrance/exit.

Guess how many trendy "people" were parking their grunged up Panda or Golf right in front of the entrance to the garage a week? about 3 I would say. it was getting very annoying as my dad was paying for the right to park his car there and also GET IT OUT, therefore protecting it from vandlism and theft.

The police would only come around to let us out in the only hypothetical case where someone parked in front of the entrance, preventing us from coming out.

We tried to speak to the guy owning the shop, he could not care less. i guess it arranged him to have more business and refuse to see what was going on.

My mom finally wrote so many letters of complaint to the council that they finally accepted to put some "do not park here or you will be towed signs on the walls and ballards. it stopped things for a little and then after a month people starting parking there for "5 minutes".

I have to point out that before all of this ordeal, the tarmac was painted in yellow digonal stripes and the gate was hugely visible with a big sign saying do not park here.

Thsi was only 10 ya. Just to say that people will always think they can get away with it and will!

Another thing BF, his landlords and I are facing is people abandoning their cars on the street.

BF and I rent a double room with landlords (Pete & Amber, more firends than anything). There is not a drive but a bit aof public car park off the road and behind a set of 4 houses. Technically, those car park spaces are for us. there are also garages but they are rented out to the council.

there is an abandoned fiesta, and abandoned laguna, an audi tt that parks right after the turn so you can easily put your nose into its back end. I also forgot to point out here are numeral abandoned cars int he road itself that have not moved an inch for at least4 months. there is another guy making one espace out of 2 on the public road.

City council came round 4 months ago and stuck "notices of towing" papers on the cars. Of course people tore them out and NOT ONE OF THOSE CARS WERE TAKEN AWAY.

The other day, it got to the point where BF could not park his Vectra anywhere as the car park was filled up. Some cars even put themselves in line with some already park making it impossible to manoeuvre. i got so fed up I started pointing out at the abandoned cars. Just at that second, the owner of the Laguna came out and apologised saying that she had guests which explained the duble parking. I told her that the clog up would have never happened if she had dispose dof her Laguna properly. She said a mechanic was coming round soon to fix it. i told her: " how convenient". I told her it had been sitting there for so long and was already 10 yo and if i was her i would call the scrapyard instead. She got her friend to move her car so we could actually park in one of the spaces they were blocking.

Our household is due to move out soon. Irony turns out that pete & Amber are going to rent the house to those people, so i cannot do anything to upset them, it would have been long since I denounced them to the city council again. this car park is not private but I believe it is destined to those who live and visit there.