Inconsiderate parking

Ticked

PSNI to issue notices to cars obstructing pavements
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-38814237

Not before time! Here's hoping it's not hot air or a short lived publicity stunt......

RikM

Er... why warn them? Unless it's designated as an area where you can park on the pavement, it's an offence. Just issue tickets.

lost1

They will make a killing in the University and Holy lands area.

jellynose

If the cars in those little tight streets in the Holylands area for example didn't park slightly up on the pavement and both sides parked on the road, I doubt that any cars would be able to get up or down the street. I don't park or live around there but it looks tight even with people parked up on the pavement.

tara747

jellynose wrote: »

If the cars in those little tight streets in the Holylands area for example didn't park slightly up on the pavement and both sides parked on the road, I doubt that any cars would be able to get up or down the street. I don't park or live around there but it looks tight even with people parked up on the pavement.

What about people in wheelchairs or with prams?


Parking on the footpath shouldn't be allowed, full stop.

jellynose

tara747 wrote: »

What about people in wheelchairs or with prams?


Parking on the footpath shouldn't be allowed, full stop.

I totally agree. I have tried to negotiate tight pavements with a pram myself and ended up having to push the pram up the road instead, it makes you :mad:

I was just wondering if there would be space for cars to go up and down the street if people on both sides (or at least one side) didn't park up on the kerb.

As I said, I don't live or park around the Holylands area, I was just wondering how/why pavement parking started in the first place.

Undervalued

RikM wrote: »

Er... why warn them? Unless it's designated as an area where you can park on the pavement, it's an offence. Just issue tickets.

Are you sure? Maybe it is in NI but that is not the case in much of the UK.

It is not as simple as that - sadly! Where I live we suffer from this problem and have investigated it in some detail.

In most areas, unless there is a special bylaw in force, it is not actually an offence to park on the pavement unless it is takes up enough space so as to be an obstruction.

The offence is to drive on the pavement. The problem is that is a moving traffic offence and it needs a constable to see it happen. There is, stupidly, no power to compel the registered keeper of the vehicle to say who drove it there!

In theory at least you can be fined up to £1000 and get three points on your licence for driving on the footway but how often does that happen.

You can also be fined separately for damaging the highway, perhaps by churning up grass verges. However that is seldom enforced, certainly in this area.

waltsalt

Good post Undervalued.

That is how the law is here too I believe.

Undervalued

waltsalt wrote: »

Good post Undervalued.

That is how the law is here too I believe.

Thanks.

Just to add, parking on the pavement is a offence in most of the London area. In the town where I live the council created bylaws to protect four roads as a experiment some years back. Technically they still exist but are seldom if ever enforced.

There is also an interesting legal obscurity if a road is a cul-de-sac. Apparently, according to a debate raging near here, it is illegal for anybody to park unless they live at or are visiting one of the properties. Again, the problem is getting it enforced.

RikM

Undervalued wrote: »

Thanks.

Just to add, parking on the pavement is a offence in most of the London area. In the town where I live the council created bylaws to protect four roads as a experiment some years back. Technically they still exist but are seldom if ever enforced.

There is also an interesting legal obscurity if a road is a cul-de-sac. Apparently, according to a debate raging near here, it is illegal for anybody to park unless they live at or are visiting one of the properties. Again, the problem is getting it enforced.

Ah, that's probably it then. most of my early driving experience was in London. I just assumed it was the case everywhere (seems sensible).
In London you see signs where parking with one wheel on the pavement is permitted - generally narrow streets in built up areas.

FUNKYDADDIO

Really pleased to see this, have a double pram and am sick of cars forcing me onto the road to get past..