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Inherited disabled parking bays.

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  • savvy
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    We've had some disabled bays burnt off, so maybe some councils are hotter on it than others?
    Nasqueron wrote: »
    We've got one on our road from an old disabled space, no longer used and paint is slowly fading, everyone uses it as there is no longer a need for it. There is no sign. I'd quite like to have bays put in because there is such bad parking at times e.g. a gap that 2 cars would fit in being taken by 1 car parking in the middle
    Lol don't assume bays will solve your frustration :( We had them put in a few years back, you can get two cars in our little bit outside our house, yet idiots still take up the entire space with just the one car!!! So frustrating for me as we are on the end of it and get tickets from time to time as we are hung over the bay when there's nowhere else to park.
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  • Nasqueron
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    savvy wrote: »
    We've had some disabled bays burnt off, so maybe some councils are hotter on it than others?

    Lol don't assume bays will solve your frustration :( We had them put in a few years back, you can get two cars in our little bit outside our house, yet idiots still take up the entire space with just the one car!!! So frustrating for me as we are on the end of it and get tickets from time to time as we are hung over the bay when there's nowhere else to park.

    With our road you could have bays long enough for the 2 estate cars we have in the neighbourhood along with various other sized cars, the dune buggy sort of thing that someone sometimes parks here (leaves loads of oil!), a caravan sometimes etc etc and we'd have plenty of place but it'd just be nice to encourage people to park inside lines to ensure everyone can park there.

    Funnily enough the current google street view has a perfect example with my car doing it - I don't use it much during the week (I commute by bike) so it's been "setup" by the other house owners!

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  • Tarambor wrote: »
    Unless you sit there watching them parking 24/7/365 how do you know that the car parked in the middle when you came across it wasn't actually parked reasonably close to whatever was in front or behind it when it parked up?

    I don't know about you but I get used to seeing neighbours cars and how and where they park and if they have been moved that day etc. It's not hard to then notice when someone else has parked taking up half the road etc.
  • Nasqueron wrote: »
    I'm talking about going out in the evening with neighbours cars in position, come back, still identical position but someone has stuck a car in the middle taking up 2 spaces

    It's like when it's been snowing, a 100 space car park suddenly turns into a 50 space car park.
  • stator
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    My council will remove 'courtesy' disabled bays if you let them know that the person who requested it has moved house (even though anyone can use it)
    In parking in inner city locations , victorian terraces etc, you might find a disabled by with a TRO (A metal plate on a pole or simlar). They were put there for everyone, so won't be removed.
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