Car towed by Croydon Council for wheels on Kerb? Why not fined???

Mids_Costcutter

Johno100 wrote: »

But not all pavements are the same. In many areas the pavements are plenty wide enough to have two (and even four wheels on the pavement) and still give room for wheelchairs, pushchairs etc to get by with no difficulty. And the authorities, including the police, take a sensible and pragmatic approach to pavement parking as they realise the alternative is dangerously narrowed roads.

So who should decide how much room to allow for pedestrians: the motorist or the local authority? What is the pavement (footway) designed for anyway? Footway parking should be prohibited across the whole of the UK (as in London) with individual exceptions only where absolutely necessary.

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jimjames wrote: »

I wish the council would tow a few cars round here that park on the pavement. It is not acceptable that pedestrians have to walk on the road to get round a car parked on the pavement so anything that gets that message across is good I'm afraid.

I feel the same, but be careful what you wish for. :eek:

Round the corner all the houses have 3 or 4 cars, so they park on both sides of the streets on our estate, with wheels on the curb.

My part of the street is clear, as we don't have a surplus of cars. and we all park on our own drives.

Luckily, the people round the corner are too lazy to park more than a few feet from their doors.

However, if they were made to park 4 wheels on the road, nothing could get past, so half of the cars would have to be abandoned somewhere else, no doubt right outside my house.

So me and the dog have to squeeze past and keep quiet.

(I used to encourage dog mk1 to wee up their wheels, but dog mk2 is a girl and unless I lift her onto the bonnet she can't oblige )

EdGasket

In Birmingham everyone parks on the pavement either half on half off or all wheels on and no-one bats an eyelid.

Mids_Costcutter

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However, if they were made to park 4 wheels on the road, nothing could get past, so half of the cars would have to be abandoned somewhere else, no doubt right outside my house.

I think that would still be the lesser of two evils.

Bantex_2

EdGasket wrote: »

In Birmingham everyone parks on the pavement either half on half off or all wheels on and no-one bats an eyelid.

The OP is in London which has a blanket policy

Johno100

Mids_Costcutter wrote: »

So who should decide how much room to allow for pedestrians: the motorist or the local authority? What is the pavement (footway) designed for anyway? Footway parking should be prohibited across the whole of the UK (as in London) with individual exceptions only where absolutely necessary.

Who should decide? I'd go with what should decide and I'd say common sense and traffic laws. If no obstruction is being caused, even to the most obese pedestrian with a triple buggy and riding a mobility scooter, then what's the problem?

When I hear stories from Greater London of people getting towed for a slight overhang of a dropped kerb, no reasonable person can believe that is done for any other reason than revenue raising.

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Mids_Costcutter wrote: »

I think that would still be the lesser of two evils.

As I am totally selfish, and think only of myself, and my own convenience,
I'd rather they caused the problem somewhere else, than I have to try and get off my drive in a narrow street with a car each side of my dropped curb, and one directly opposite, so I have to disagree on that one

Car_54

Johno100 wrote: »

Move out of Greater London for a start. All this talk at present about an independent Scotland, it seems like London is become detached from the rest of the UK when it comes to traffic laws; pavement parking, congestion charging, low emission zones, banning perfectly legal vehicles from the roads because of their age or fuel type.

Possibly so, but the law against pavement parking has been in place since 1974 (at least).

Johno100

Mids_Costcutter wrote: »

I think that would still be the lesser of two evils.

A few years ago they tried strict enforcement of pavement parking on a few roads in the King's Heath area of Birmingham. When everybody parked 'legally' the local bus service couldn't negotiate it's route for parked cars. The bus company then threatened to divert the route away from the area and following intervention from the local councillors strict enforcement was quietly dropped and status quo returned.

Mids_Costcutter

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As I am totally selfish, and think only of myself, and my own convenience,
I'd rather they caused the problem somewhere else, than I have to try and get off my drive in a narrow street with a car each side of my dropped curb, and one directly opposite, so I have to disagree on that one

I think your previous post (no. 13) demonstrates that you're not totally selfish (or the emoticon means the post is slightly tongue in cheek?). You would still be able to get on and off your driveway wouldn't you?