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

Mids_Costcutter

Retrogamer wrote: »

Not sure about the OP's position but in the area i stay there's a lot of old residential areas that people can't park anywhere near their home without parking on the pavement because the streets are so narrow. The police always do it when they are called out and the council do it as well when doing repairs to buildings.

Selfish and unnecessary. Why does nobody seem to care about pedestrians? Because they never walk anywhere themselves?

Retrogamer

Mids_Costcutter wrote: »

Selfish and unnecessary. Why does nobody seem to care about pedestrians? Because they never walk anywhere themselves?

If they didn't park on the pavement there is no where else to park.
That's why the police, council and everyone else resorts to it.
The people with mobility cars, who are registered disabled had the council paint them parking bays which are half on the road and half on the pavement.

Mids_Costcutter

Retrogamer wrote: »

If they didn't park on the pavement there is no where else to park.
That's why the police, council and everyone else resorts to it.
The people with mobility cars, who are registered disabled had the council paint them parking bays which are half on the road and half on the pavement.

Then park further away? Just because the police, council etc. park on the pavement doesn't mean that it's right.

It's not the role of the council nor the purpose of the highway to provide car parking. Where the council have marked bays covering half of the footway they will at least have made sure there is satisfactory width remaining for pedestrians: unfortunately most motorists in my experience don't do this.

Bigphil1474

I've lived on the same street for 20 years in Leeds, and the unwritten rule in our street is, on one side you park flush to the kerb, and the other side you park two wheels on the kerb. Most people do it, and always park on the kerb on the left hand side. Don't know who started it, but it definitely works. The point being, if you parked flush to the kerb on both sides in my street, the gap in the middle wouldn't be wide enough for the bin men to come and empty our bins, or the fire engine to come and put out any fires, the Tesco, Asda, Morrisons etc. food deliveries couldn't be made and so on. Not that we have many fires, but the old dear next door has been unwell for the last few months so often gets an ambulance visit late at night. Can't see how a blanket ban should or could work.

I think the car in the picture is parked on the kerb as it is a winding section of road, and would be a greater hazard if it was parked fully on the road, requiring traffic to stop for oncoming traffic. Seems sensible to me.

REDDDRAGGON

IMO Parking on the road (unless the road is plenty sufficient for traffic in both direction and bays are officially marked up) aswell as on the football.

Really !!!!es me off on main roads where one line of traffic can move at once due to the space taken up by parked cars. If you have a car, buy/rent a place with off road parking.

Mids_Costcutter

Bigphil1474 wrote: »

I've lived on the same street for 20 years in Leeds, and the unwritten rule in our street is, on one side you park flush to the kerb, and the other side you park two wheels on the kerb. Most people do it, and always park on the kerb on the left hand side. Don't know who started it, but it definitely works. The point being, if you parked flush to the kerb on both sides in my street, the gap in the middle wouldn't be wide enough for the bin men to come and empty our bins, or the fire engine to come and put out any fires, the Tesco, Asda, Morrisons etc. food deliveries couldn't be made and so on. Not that we have many fires, but the old dear next door has been unwell for the last few months so often gets an ambulance visit late at night. Can't see how a blanket ban should or could work.

I think the car in the picture is parked on the kerb as it is a winding section of road, and would be a greater hazard if it was parked fully on the road, requiring traffic to stop for oncoming traffic. Seems sensible to me.

So none of these problems exist in London, or other cities outside the UK where there isn't a parking free for all? If required parking could be managed through marking of bays on street, residents parking schemes, waiting bans on one side of the street etc. Requiring traffic to stop for opposing flows might not always be a bad thing, especially as we're talking mainly about residential streets where people live.

techspec

mattyprice4004 wrote: »

Good. People who aren't capable of parking their car in a bay properly deserve it.

Yes but when one parks over - it pushes all the others over - and they all get a ticket.

I could have parked other week , but had to leave it as it was impossible to fit in the bay as the other car was partly in it. So nuts when there was plenty of space. Sometimes bays are unnecessary - eg why not one big bay for the side of the road. Car parks are different, as they are often needed to prevent congestion.

Also my traffic wardens say its position of the wheels, but another said its the bumpers, and even towbar if over-hanging.

peter_the_piper

Mids_Costcutter wrote: »

Selfish and unnecessary. Why does nobody seem to care about pedestrians? Because they never walk anywhere themselves?

I'm always impressed by councils and just how many designs of pavements they have. From 3ft wide, bijou paths where a parked car would be a definite hazard to pedestrians right up to 10ft monstrosities where you could park a lorry and still leave room for a family of 4 to walk by side by side.