residential parking, car is producing by an inch onto the dropped kerb section

ginashamz

Hi

I live in a residential road and my car is protruding about an into into the small section as the kerb becomes to slope down for driveway access.

What are the rules about this? My neighbour keeps harassing me about this but they have enough access to go in and out their drive.

foxy-stoat

You cannot block the exit of a vehicle that's already parked off the road - that's about it.

Maybe you can park 1 inch further away to save your RX8 from getting scratched.

James2k

an inch, really.

ginashamz

Found this:
Section 86 (1)(a)(ii) of the Traffic Management Act 2004 states: In a special enforcement area a vehicle must not be parked on the carriageway adjacent to a footway, cycle track or verge where the footway, cycle track or verge has been lowered to meet the level of the carriageway for the purpose of assisting pedestrians crossing the carriageway

In order for the contravention to have taken place, the vehicle must be parked with one or more wheels adjacent to a dropped kerb.

ginashamz

My car does not enter the dropped kerb section. It only protrudes about an inch into the sloped kerb section.

Note this is a residential road and there any no road signs/restrictions/permits in place

James2k

maybe the neighbours don't want your bits of rusty rx flaking off onto their driveway.

AndyMc.....

Can't you imagine it back an inch?

In fact post a pic of said obstruction with a can of custard on the roof.

NBLondon

Just in case it helps any real car-owners... Is there a white line painted across the width of the dropped kerb? (Not assuming every area has this - we do round here). If so, would the question for enforcement by local authority perhaps be: is your vehicle overhanging the end of the white line? (Or indeed - is it end of the vehicle over the white line or is it tyre over the white line?)

I have no idea of the answers - but I bet any of you a tin of custard that there will not be a definitive answer to those 2nd and 3rd questions....

EssexExile

Move it forward an inch, but do it in the dry because it has no grip in the wet & you might go too far, or not far enough.

angrycrow

One inch, so half your matchbox rx8 is over the dropped kerb then.

Car_54

ginashamz wrote: »

My car does not enter the dropped kerb section. It only protrudes about an inch into the sloped kerb section.

Note this is a residential road and there any no road signs/restrictions/permits in place

The “dropped” kerb is the flat part. You can safely obstruct the sloping part.