Cars parking in front of garage

zagubov

There's supposed to be somewhere in South America (Argentina?) where parking tickets are like broadsheets superglued over the windscreen.

Takes hours to scrape them off. Don't get many repeat offenders. Wouldn't want that here.

Norman_Castle

powerful_Rogue wrote: »

Is the garage with the yellow post yours? If the same car keeps blocking it I would put notes on the car explaining you need access. The no parking sign is tiny. Stand the yellow post up and add a oversized no parking /access required sign to it.
How busy is that area of pavement. If somebody left a kerb stone on it would you still be able to get out?

jaybeetoo

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1330189/Pensioner-caught-CCTV-using-car-shunt-vehicle-blocking-garage.html

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jaybeetoo wrote: »

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1330189/Pensioner-caught-CCTV-using-car-shunt-vehicle-blocking-garage.html

Road Rage my a@@@.

He wanted out, he backed out, there was a car in his way he pushed it out of the way, how is that road rage?

Seems like common sense to me :cool:

rtho782

I own a bike, it's a 600 and weighs about 180 kg. I can turn it around in an area that big.

Remove bike from garage, place it on it's sidestand.

Stand on the sidestand side, pull bike towards you just lifting wheels, spin about the sidestand.

This is how garages turn your bike around when doing servicing and MOTs.

unforeseen

Using a vehicle as battering ram not road rage? If you say so. Pushing an uncontrolled vehicle into traffic is definitely dangerous driving

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unforeseen wrote: »

Using a vehicle as battering ram

Reads like the Daily Mail.

In countries where cars have Proper Bumpers they often give other cars a push. In France you can expect your car to get nudged up a bit if there isn't quite enough space.

And how does "Leaving a note on the windscreen" help get your car out NOW :mad:

I'm with him 100%.

No doubt if we had this cctv rather than a couple of still, we could see him nudge it and slowly push it out rather than the implied drive at it at 80 and it flies out into the road scattering nuns whilst their baskets of kittens hurtle into the primary school scant feet from the carnage (that is curiously absent in the stills even)

EdGasket

Turn_to_Grey wrote: »

Ask the council to put a solid white line along the dropped kerb, Might not stop the parking, but its more ammunition should you wish to push the issue.

You mean 'Pay the council'; those white leans aren't cheap you know; about £36 for a single driveway where I live. If you are asking then why not make it double yellows?

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I've got double yellows across mine.

They don't seem to work.
Unfortunately I live near a school (no, it is not a desirable feature, just brings mounds of litter, cigarette butts, and nitrous oxide cylinders, as well as traffic mayhem for 3 hours a day) so after much complaining, The Council gave us double yellows to "stop inconsiderate parents parking across the dropped kerbs" except it doesn't.
Mummy isn't parked when she is sitting in the X5 with the engine running for an hour waiting for Chardonnay and Kai to waddle down from the school, the most the Parking man can do is get her to move to the next one. (And you thought "no waiting" meant "no waiting or you get a ticket")

No I don't know why mummy has to pull up an hour before the published end of school every single day either, maybe only being 55 minutes early would cause Chardonnay & Kai to have to waddle a further 10 yards?