…to consider it bang out of order for people to start mucking about with my car just because they don’t like me parking on their road?

[jfh]

I have to drive to our local station to commute to work (the bus service is truly rubbish). I don’t want pay for the station car park as its half the price of my season ticket again. So I park about 10 mins walk away on a side street. It’s a public highway, with no restrictions. I park on a stretch which runs alongside a fence, so I don’t block anyone’s driveway. I make sure I don’t jam anyone in front or behind me in so they can’t get out. I don’t obstruct the road. Pretty much every house on the road has its own drive. Yet people are taking offence at me and my car – it’s been keyed, and some scrote stuck labels over the glass telling me not to use their road as a station car park.

I’ve now taken to having my iphone at the ready to take a snap of whoever is going to have the balls to actually start having a go to my face, just so I can get plod to pay them a visit on suspicion of criminal damage.

WTF is wrong with some people? (and no, I couldn’t give a sh1t if they did the same in my road…it’s a public highway and no one has the right to park outside their own house)

Fine. Carry on calling me names if it makes you feel better. But it's not big and it's not clever.

I think I'm done here.

I didn't mind people parking outside my (old) house but I did mind that they parked so close to one another because they were too lazy to walk a hundred metres or so further. It is dangerous even though it's not illegal.

"I would be very annoyed if I consistently had to park my car a couple of streets away from my own house because the street upon which I lived was full of cars belonging to people who didn't want to pay for station car parking."

But the second part is not something you could ever know, beyond bitter speculation.

The reality of the situation is that your sister has to park far away from her home because she doesn't have off-street parking and she is just one of very many people who find the street she lives on a desirable place to park.

That's my situation, and it doesn't annoy me in the least because being annoyed about it is pointless and stupid.

You arrange your life, your driving and your shopping around this reality.

It's really not that big a deal.

And if it becomes a big deal, then you need to arrange your life so that you live somewhere that offers you what you need.

"But it's not big and it's not clever."

:o

People who say that are ALWAYS wrong.

Parking a distance away, in a place where you know it inconveniences others, just to save on car parking is tight.

That does not make much sense to me. There is a road, like the one outside my door infact, it allows non resident parking, the OP parks on it she is not bring tight IMO. I have a driveway, I park their often we pay for parking in nearby streets if we are having visitors if they bring a car. These are the costs of living so close to amenities. No one owns a public road.

All of you who think there is a parking problem on the public road you don't own in front of your houses should be lobbying your council to introduce residents' parking and metered bays.

I live in a very desirable city centre location within less than 10 minutes walking distance of the centre of Edinburgh and 5 minutes to a railway station. We have no difficulty getting a parking space, It might not always be right outside the door but it will be on our short street. We like it and the Council love it as we pay hundreds of pounds per year for it and anyone coming to us who needs to park a car has to pay the (very high) meter charges on the public bays.

I'm sure if the situation is as bad as you describe your councils will be happy to oblige in a similar manner.It's a right wee money spinner for Edinburgh, could be for yours as well.

If however you don't fancy paying for a residents' permit (and making your visitors pay the public charges)then you really have no alternative than taking your chances with everyone else.

I would love to see house the council justify the amounts they charge you Caitlin. As I said, if our council can manage on £30 a car then I wonder what your council does with the money. Do you get gold plated permits?

'see how' not 'see house'

It's supply and demand as far as Edinburgh is concerned. It's cheaper in zones 4-8 and cheaper still in the outer peripheral zones but otherwise it's just a factor to deal with if you choose to live in the relevant zones. And it does work, no question about it.

If they want to live in houses with off-street parking, they need to move.

Absolutely!

If the op is parking legally, she has a perfect right to do so. No one is entitled to keep a parking space open in front of their house just because it's most convenient for them. On the other hand, parking as to block private garages or driveways is rude and forbidden under American law.
As for considering train station lot parking costs when accepting a job, many people feel lucky just to have work.

I used to live near an overground London station. Commuters were less of a problem than residents. A terrace house converted into 2 x 2 bed flats means potentially 4 cars with a frontage only suitable for 1. Now I live near a more 'desirable' station further out but because it is there are yellow lines on weekdays.

I've recently had my drive widened but on weekends people park across the non-dropped section, despite it being obvious that it's right across my drive. Kind of. The new occupants of the house across the road park 1 of their cars directly opposite my drive which is difficult as getting out can take some manoeuvring. I've thought I might just ask them nicely to park both cars on their drive, but really what's the point? It's as much their road as mine.

A road is a road & unless someone's doing something illegal then tough.

Here it's not residents clogging it up. Of the six houses in our terrace and the four semi-detacheds on the other side of the road, we have 4 cars between us. Yet if I get home at 3.30 on a weekday there is not a chance in hell that I will be able to park anywhere near my house and if the odds are in my favour someone will come and have a swearfest because they need to pick up their little darling. I'd have a little more sympathy if I didn't recognise their car as living two streets away.

I know the obvious reaction is 'well why do you live on a school road?' - yes, fair point, but when we moved in six years ago it was fine. Nowadays it really isn't. And the council just don't seem to care because we're not North Oxford. I would paint the bloody lines myself if they'd let me! I'd happily pay for a permit!

Nothing excuses vandalising cars but frankly it's glib to suggest we all just move. Of course, if you're willing to pay off my mortgage, I'd be happy to talk...

Spermysextowel- you need to get the kerb dropped all the way across then. No dropped kerb means legally people can block it as it's not a driveway. You have no right of way across a non dropped kerb.

Oh, and I do own the road outside my house (shared private road, parking is allocated and outlined in deeds to house). I still don't shout at visitors who park there, even if they are in my space (though I will get cross if someone has a house party and uses all the spaces again).

I have a parking situation at the moment that is making me frustrated. I live in a quiet street with enough parking for 3 cars per household. However one of my neighbours insists on parking his van right in front of my window. There is no logic or reason for it. There are also plenty of other spaces to park that wouldnt annoy me or any of our other neighbours. I think it is just rude.

Does the van have rude words on it? Is it luminous orange?

Out of interest, do you leave enough gap on the pavements for a wheelchair/mobility scooter or buggy to get through?

As that really pisses me off when cars park right up on the pavement meaning I can't get by and I have to walk in the road.

I've been tempted to write a snotty note or ten.

That was to the op, sorry.

Not quite on the core of this thread, but while we are moaning about parking... My Mum has a really nasty neighbour, who waits until she's gone out then moves his ruddy car and parks it outside her house. His car was already parked in the street, he's just a bully. It's a residential street, but narrow enough that people only park on one side, my Mother's side. So nasty neighbour can't park outside his own house. He just jumps into the space opposite, outside my Mum's house, every time he gets the chance.

Thing is, my mother is disabled - nerve damage to her feet. So it's really difficult for her to have to walk further down the road. Oafish neighbour must have seen her walking with difficulty but still does it, the swine.

(I know the answer is to get a disabled space outside her house BUT my Mother refuses to get herself registered disabled - misplaced pride/denial, I think.)

LadyIsabellasHollyWreath - was that meant to be funny because it wasnt.

It is rude and inconsiderate because my neighbour has the choice of 8 spaces, none of which will bother me or any other neighbour but he chooses to park outside my window. There is no need for it. All i see when i look out my window is the back of his van, nothing else. Even if he parked it one space to either side that would be fine but no he parks it slap bang in front of my window and it only moves about once a week for an hour or so at a time. How can that not be rude?

Nickname, have you asked him why he parks there? Surely it's more inconvenient for him to park there