Pavement parking Ban.

[itsallthedramaMickiloveit]

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.

You don’t HAVE to park outside your house

You do if there’s nowhere else.

^^someone made the helpful suggestion of parking your car then getting a taxi home

I'm all for this. I'm visually impaired and use a cane under certain conditions. Pavement parking is a pain to navigate round, and blocks safe crossing points on some roads.

CuriousaboutSamphire

People like you should be made to use a wheelchair for a week. You'd soon realise just how difficult it is to just go on the other side.

Look @PotsOfPebbles I don't make the bloody decisions. But I do understand them. No matter what you might think there has to be a compromise when infrastructure cannot be everything to everyone. In a perfect world there would be road space and pavement space for everyone. But this isn't a perfect world.

Oh, and having been born with a serious hip defect I am quite used to the use of wheelchairs, thanks! Why do you think I noticed so much about a road a don't live on?

I live on a street in an estate and everyone parks on the one side. Only one house which is council owned has a drive for a disabled person. No twats where I live

I live in a small village with no bus service. Taxis to work would cost me around £20 each way. I can't cycle there because its off a motorway. I also have to get to uni in a city 20-30 min drive away.

Am I allowed a car?

Of course you are. If you have somewhere to park it that isn’t blocking the pavement.

Why did you choose to live in an area with no parking or public transport when you are dependent on either a car or public transport?

Why did you choose to live in an area with no parking or public transport when you are dependent on either a car or public transport?

To be close to their servants ?

Bloody hell iamthewombat

I rather like the sound of the Japanese system. Another crowded island, but one on which the occupants have managed to get their collective act together. That hasn’t impacted Japanese car manufacturing, you’ll notice, despite some posters on this thread announcing that stopping them from blocking pavements outside their houses would bring about the end of the car industry and the petrol industry.

To be close to their servants?

Hahahahaha. I have enjoyed your posts by the way.

someone made the helpful suggestion of parking your car then getting a taxi home

That was me and in case it was unclear, it was in response to somebody whinging that there was nowhere to park nearby and how could she possibly get to her car because the only parking was miles away. If I had a car I couldn’t park on my road, and could only park it somewhere that wasn’t within walking distance, that’s what I’d do.

Although I’d be more likely to use the sense I was born with and think, my house/flat doesn’t have parking, I can’t park nearby without blocking the pavement so, here’s an idea, I won’t have a car. The same decision that thousands of Londoners have made (I don’t live in London).

Or if I were dependent on a car I’d live in a house with parking, or with parking I could walk to.

Here my pavement is twice as wide as my car, it's a very busy road,

Oh, and having been born with a serious hip defect I am quite used to the use of wheelchairs, thanks! Why do you think I noticed so much about a road a don't live on?

Then this makes your comments even more shocking.

Incidentally, for the people who claim that they have to park on the pavement of their narrow, crowded street because there is no parking nearby:

What do you do when your street is full of cars - it must happen, when your neighbours have visitors - and you can’t park on the pavements in your street or any of the nearby streets, which you have told us are full because you’d have to park seven miles away in the next town etc.

What do you do then?

I anticipate that you are putting your car into a public car park that you have to pay for. Why shouldn’t you do that all the time, if you have bought a house without parking? Or is the cost of parking your car somewhere it won’t be in anybody’s way more important than the needs of pedestrians, blind people, wheelchair users and families?

Japanese public transport is so efficient that apparently they issue writing notices when delayed because it's so rare employers don't believe their staff.

Until the UK gets anything other than appallingly shit. You can't try and offer public transport as an alternative use to our cars.

If you made the reasonable decision to (1) live in an area accessible by public transport and (2) actually use it, then public transport would improve. But you won’t do that, will you? No, everybody and everything else needs to bend to accommodate you and your blessed car.

I’m really interested in the answer to the ‘what happens when the pavement in your road is full of cars’ question, by the way. Do you drive around aimlessly for hours, looking for a space? What does that tell you about your decisions re where to live and how to travel?

Well again. I am fine. This is a wider discussion.

And I do what I need to for me. To be honest. Unless the Government change the infrastructure unfortunately others will just have to find their ways if I'm not breaking the law.

There are no public car parks. You really don't seem to understand how some people have to live.

So your solution is everybody has to move to London. Or major cities.

Fuck the rural towns. Fuck the valleys.

Hello Thatcher.

Or if I were dependent on a car I’d live in a house with parking, or with parking I could walk to.

Not everyone is in the fortunate position of being so picky about where they live. Hopefully my next home will be an ivory tower...

And I do what I need to for me. To be honest. Unless the Government change the infrastructure unfortunately others will just have to find their ways

How about that, @SarahInAccounts, @PotsOfPebbles and @DGRossetti?

You really don't seem to understand how some people have to live.

I understand how pedestrians, wheelchair users and families have to live. Do you?

Hello Thatcher.

I’m here, speaking from beyond the grave

Yes. But if somebody isn't breaking the law then there's nothing to do.

You have yet to put forward a reasonable and sound solution. How about you try and do that?

You started the thread by asking whether people would support a ban on pavement parking if it were legislated for. Now you have your answers. It’s a shame if you don’t like all of them.

Why is it my job to put forward a ‘sound and reasonable’ solution for people who have behaved unreasonably by choosing to live somewhere where they can’t park a car without blocking the pavement?

OK. But as you piped in earlier the discussion has moved on from Yes/No to how. Sorry if you don't like the answers to that.

And why is it my job to find a way for people to get down the street when I'm not breaking the law?