Pavement parking Ban.

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How would you be affected if there was a blanket ban on all pavement parking.

I'm not just talking about the inability to get a pram or wheelchair passed but a complete ban on any car on the pavement at all.

I think it's obvious we've a lot of people on here who live in London and other big cities with decent public transport and just can't comprehend what life is like in smaller cities, towns and rural areas that often don't have any!

Exactly this if those who were in favour of such a ban lived in a place like I and many others do they would realise that they are arguing from a place of privilege

So anybody who thinks that pedestrians, wheelchair users and families with buggies have a right to use the pavements you are blocking with your car needs to check their privilege?

Shall I tell you what I’d do if I lived in a terraced street with no parking other than on the pavement? I wouldn’t have a car. Like most Londoners, you’ll find (note, I don’t live in London). Nor would I buy a house far away from public transport if it meant that I had to block a pavement with my car. That’s considerate, not ‘arguing from a place of privilege’.

I live in a small town and either walk, cycle or use public transport. Always have, always will. Because I don’t want to be someone who relies so heavily on a car that I can’t imagine life without one.

I don't know anyone who wants to park on the pavement.

I do, 2 sets of lazy neighbours.

They have plenty of space at the front on a normal road, but park inches from their front door on a pavement.

One parks on the pavement on a crossroads, so none of us can see whats coming, we have to edge out every fucking day and hope we dont get hit.

I was 23 when I bought my house, funnily enough I couldn't stretch to a house with a a drive. Do you think anyone would choose not to have a drive? Having fewer cars (by this you many any cars) is impossible if you work somewhere without public transport and work in a further away town. Should I tell my doctor friend he should give up his job at the local hospital (in a town much more expensive that our own) because he cant afford a driveway?

I'd support a ban
I used to live in a road where pretty much everyone converted their garage into a room then had to park on the pavement -- it was a PITA for pedestrians, buggy users etc.

It's meant to be banned here in Scotland from next year but where I am people park on double yellow lines without getting a ticket so I can't see anything changing here. I hope I'm wrong though.

If people moved nearer to work, it would make the house prices rocket

Imagine! How awful that you should have to pay more on your mortgage. Suck on that, pedestrians.

It’s quite funny that the staunch defenders of parking on pavements keep coming up with apocalyptic scenarios. Ghost towns! Mass demolition! Green spaces lost forever! It’s not apocalyptic at all. It simply requires you to put up with some inconvenience so that you aren’t causing major inconvenience to people less able to deal with it.

We have downsized from 2 to 1 car, but we are very privileged that I work from home and my husband works next door. Still, we often can't park where we live and have to park half a mile away. We managed, even with a newborn.

Where I come from you wouldn't even consider parking on a pavement. I have never understood why the British government allows it. But then I find city planning extremely poor here, especially on new estates!

I was 23 when I bought my house, funnily enough I couldn't stretch to a house with a drive.

So you bought a house that didn’t meet your needs no other people have to bear the consequences? Why didn’t you wait until you could afford a house you could park at? I know why. It didn’t suit you,so everybody trying to use the pavement you have blocked is paying for you to boast that you bought a house aged 23.

It’s like buying a two bed house when you have four children then demanding that the neighbours make their bedrooms available to accommodate your needs.

Not this again. You say you lived in a two up two down. What infrastructure would you recommend? Should your local council spend its budget for the next ten years excavating a free of charge subterranean car park?

^^ it clearly hasn't if you have people parking on pavements and no other space to park.

The pavement is so wide outside our house that you can park an SUV fully on the pavement and there is still more than ample room for a double buggy to get past. So any legislation needs to be sufficiently variable for Council's to decide locally how to apply the rules.

I definitely think there needs to be a ban on all main roads.

I understand there may be problems in some housing estates and in those instances there need to be exceptions.

But general pavement parking has to stop. What really annoys me is when you are walking along the pavement and someone either drives on or off the pavement in front of you as if you are not there.

Also parking in cycle lanes. On Sunday I was riding along the road and two cars had parked in the cycle lane so I obviously had to go round them. Did the cars coming up behind me give me space? Did they heck! Twotsits.

It's easy for people with driveways and wide roads

Not really. I walk along roads where the houses do have driveways and yet people still feel the need to park on the pavement. Often van drivers doing deliveries, but they don't need to be part on the pavement, they're causing an obstruction anyway, so it doesn't matter if they are fully on the road instead.

The main problem is there is a very big cultural issue that drivers are more important than pedestrians and that needs to change.

there is a very big cultural issue that drivers are more important than pedestrians and that needs to change

As I said, round here the problem is that cyclists think they’re more important than pedestrians.

What annoys me most about this issue is that there are several brand new estates in my town which have all been built with inadequate parking. All the garages are physically too small to fit a car into (I tried with a Ford Fiesta, if I folded the wing mirrors in it just scraped in, but then it was too tight to open the car door once in the garage so I was trapped in the car). Most houses have two cars with drive space for only one, but the roads through the estates are narrow and winding so everyone parks partially on the pavement. It's a nightmare, and all so they can squeeze the maximum number of houses into the smallest area.

@Iamthewombat we have a double drive
But is my husbands job hypothetically more important to me than someone else. Yes.

The solution is a multi billion pound infrastructure change which focussed on houses, roads, pavements and efficient, affordable and basically 24 hour public transport. Work starts 31st September 230000

@Iamthewombat rude. I don't park on the pavement myself, but I am speaking from the perspective of someone who lives in a community like this. We are lucky that we have a carpark that is free after hours and we are both out at work all day. I don't really understand what you are saying, it makes no sense. I did buy a house that met my needs or are you saying houses without pavements should only be bought by non-drivers? Do you realise how silly that sounds? I'm not boasting, pretty standard age to buy a house

It depends on the particular location tbh. My sister has a driveway on which she & her husband park. However their house is just after a sharp bend on a bus route & across the road from a primary school ,(joy!!).There is no choice but to park partially on the pavement to avoid my car getting hit by a bus as it swings round the corner & fire engines, ambulances etc would be unable to get through. Wheelchairs, mobility scooters, buggies & prams can all get past with care.
Unfortunately it's not always as simplistic as all drivers parking on pavements are evil & should be burnt at the stake.

Sorry driveway, not pavement.

There is no choice but to park partially on the pavement to avoid my car getting hit by a bus as it swings round the corner & fire engines, ambulances etc would be unable to get through.

Of course there's a choice. Park further away.

Of course there's a choice. Park further away

How far away do you suggest?

Despite the fact I can absolutely guarantee no wheelchair user, buggy pusher or partially-sighted pedestrian will need to use the “pavement” outside my house.

I am however happy to stop parking there once in a blue moon in return for the council purchasing the parcel of land so I don’t need to pay to maintain a space I can’t use!

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