Money Moral Dilemma: Should I park outside someone else's house to avoid paying?

Marvel1

Greveson wrote: »

This forum has a strange moral compass. You'll call somebody a thief for not informing a company that mistakenly sent them and extra product costing a few quid, but somebody forcing others to park away from their house just so they can save a couple of quid a day is completely fine.

Do they own the space outside their house then?

tallgirld

Yup just park there while you can!


The residents will soon be fed up of the commuters and want their road to have parking permits...

asdesigned

cjdavies wrote: »

Do they own the space outside their house then?

Do you have to walk for 10 minutes back to your house because of people wanting to save a fiver?

Aylesbury_Duck

I made a suggestion to a local residents' group last year, when they went to the local press to highlight the problem of commuter parking on their estate for the nearby railway station. It was to coordinate resident action on a particular day once or twice a week every week, where every resident moved their cars off their drives and parked in the street, making sure that every possible bit of legal street parking was taken. Then commuters would arrive, realise they'd been boxed out and have to park in the station car park, elsewhere and possibly be late. Do it on random days but regularly and people would soon get the message that it's parking they cannot rely upon.

The group couldn't get it organised, despite having made the effort to get into the local press to complain about it.

Tammykitty

Its perfectly legal and acceptable.


I used to park on residential street wherever there was a space when I was at work.


I also lived on a residential street with no off street parking in a different commuter parking area - and if I was off work, or home early etc, I couldn't get parked.


So I have seen it from both sides - but residents don't own the street outside their house.


I once had someone stick a no parking sticker on my car on a street near my own house, and I actually parked there again the next day, and put a note on the car, saying I lived in the next street over and it was the closest space I could find to my house.


It's part of living in a commuter parking area, and if you can't handle it, don't live in one.


As long as the parking is legal and not causing an obstruction, in my opinion its completely fine.


There is a reason houses with no off street parking cost less, its because it can be a inconvenience, but getting parked in the next street over never really bothered me too much, yes it was annoying when it was raining or when I had shopping (I actually kept a suitcase on wheels in the car, for carrying stuff from the car if I couldn't get parked - very useful)


My flat actually had a single yellow line opposite and was no parking from 8.30am to 5.30pm, so this actually suited me perfectly as I was at work then, and could usually get parked easily enough when I came home after work

Tricia1

I used to live on a street where people often parked to go into work; if there were no spaces left when I arrived home, I had to park 3 streets away across a busy road and walk with my two children under five plus shopping (the other nearer roads had double yellow lines). Although I found it v.annoying, I was still aware that I don't own the road outside my property so it was hard luck. Indeed I have done the same in my turn by parking on side streets where convenient to me, although like a previous contributor I avoid parking directly outside peoples' actual houses. Some people think they own the road outside their houses though, I once pulled in for a moment to read a phone text outside someone's house (no dropped kerb/drive and I was sitting in the car) and they came out to complain!

flyingflea

I live in a residential area near a train station and people park their cars all around us to avoid the (hardly used) train car park. Recently the council has introduced some residential parking permit areas as well as double yellows which means people now have to either pay to park outside their own house or park even further away from than they did before (because of the double yellows).

This has only made matters worse as people are now choosing to park their cars where the parking restrictions end, meaning cars are now on BOTH side of the road making it a complete pain to drive down when there a car coming in the opposite direction. If a fire engine wanted to drive down our street, it would be like a scene out of Grand Theft Auto!

I personally report each and every car I come across that is parked on the pavement where I have to cross the road to pass. I do this by calling 101 and someone comes out within a couple hours to give them a ticket. I'd encourage others to as well but it's not uncommon to see known commuters have their wing mirrors kicked off or be keyed.

Call me a hypocrite but I myself have parked in a residential area near an airport before but I always make sure I park legally and considerately. If airport parking was more affordable, I would park there. I'd had notes left on my car telling me not to park there again too.

jgriggle

Norman_Castle wrote: »

If you resent paying to park why did you choose a job which involves £8 per day parking as part of your commute?

I resent paying to park so I chose a job which is 5 minutes walk away from a residential street in which I can park for free.

jgriggle

Loanranger wrote: »

I am shocked at the me me me attitude displayed here.

I know - I'm shocked at the amount of people who think that living in a house gives them special parking privileges on the road outside it.

jgriggle

fizzking wrote: »

I agree that parking all day, every day, on a residential street is the height of selfishness.
The culprit has no idea whether it might cause more than inconvenience to the residents and probably could not care less if emergency and delivery services can't access it easily.
You are causing offence just so you can go and earn money.
Have some decency and pay up.

I park every day on a street which is a row of terraced houses and have done for 14 years. None of these houses have driveways or front gardens, the only parking is on the street. It's a one way street and cars park either side.


I don't really care about the inconvenience to the residents or any offence I may be causing them. They chose to live on street which is close to the town centre and has no driveways or residents' parking. No-one forced them. I have as much right to park there as they do. Delivery services can access it fine - they just stop and block the road for a bit. As do the residents when they are unloading their shopping from their cars before going to find somewhere to park.


Being able to park my car outside my house is important to me and it would annoy me if I couldn't. This is precisely why I chose a house with a driveway.


The reality is that most of the residents' cars have already left by the time the commuters' cars arrive, and vice/versa at the end of the day.