Bastards parking on pavements!

[LuisSuarezTeeth]

People that completely block the footpaths with their cars. AIBU to have pre-printed some notes to leave on windscreens because on a 5 minute journey I counted 12! There is NEVER an excuse!

This boils my piss! (in case there was any doubt)

[Biscetti]

It's not illegal to park on the pavement in London. In roads around mine there are plenty with signs telling you to park half on/half off.

[HappyAgainOneDay]

I went through a phase of printing labels saying "Pavements are for pedestrians. Please park elsewhere". I stuck one label on the driver's wing mirror so it could not be missed. I did it to a new car that appeared outside our houses and it turned out to be my next door neighbour with his new car . Yes, well, he should not have been on the pavement .....

It s illegal to park on pavements but there are not enough staff of any sort to keep tabs on everyone who does it.

[Bunbaker]

"Bun People who buy homes with no parking, need to park further away from their home."

I agree withMrsKoala. For some of the housing the nearest parking is in the supermarket car par over a mile away. When you arrive home with a car full of shopping I don't think it is being lazy not to want to traipse a mile per trip between car and house to unload.

It is a difficult one. The council should paint double yellow lines on the roads that aren't wide enough for vehicles to pass without parking on the pavement. Then people with cars wouldn't buy those houses.

I can see both sides of the argument here.

[o0]

I use a walker and this drives me mad!

I got into am arguement with a neighbour very recently about this. He came out his house just as I got to his car and I said in a very mild mannered way, "thanks for blocking the pavement."

He went full rage at me. Swearing and shouting and my favourite was, "Just because you're disabled doesn't make you entitled to the whole fucking pavement."

I pointed out I was entitled to the whole pavement as a pedestrian.

He was so enraged he got in his car and reversed deliberately into me.

I told his wife on him. She was so mad I'm surprised I didn't hear the row he got when he got home!

[AlpacaLypse]

If it cheers any of you up, I've had a ticket for obstructing a pavement, seventy miles outside London.

The fact that the pavement was nearly fifteen feet wide, and everyone has parked on it for over twenty years, and I was one of about 30 cars, and I had pushed my own twin daughters down it in their side-by-side double buggy, with enough room to get past without brushing anything either side, cut no ice with the new-to-the-area traffic warden who handed out the ticket.

[lunar1]

My first husband used a wheelchair, I put fairly bad scratches in 2 cars squeezing through the space they left. There was no way on earth I was going to risk shortening his life even more by going on the road. Selfish bastards.

[Windywenceslas]

I saw someone park a fiesta fully on the pavement the other day, all 4 wheels on the pavement. There was no room left on the pavement. I was mystified as the road was plenty wide enough to park on. It pissed me right off, but she was a nurse and clearly on duty so I didn't say anything. Probably should have.

[MissBattleaxe]

I agree with everybody on the thread and I don't say that very often. I have also had to walk in the road with a pushchair. On one occasion, there was a mum in the car waiting to pick her child up from a very nearby school. Her car took up the entire pavement I tapped on the window and explained I couldn't get past with the pushchair. She looked right through me and turned the radio up.

As a result, me and my two year old had to walk round a blind corner on a bend in the road because of her. Why she couldn't have moved the car and walked the five yards to the school gate is beyond me.

[WeeFreeKings]

Biscetti and those signs are needed because otherwise it would be illegal.

www.drivingtesttips.biz/parking-on-pavement.html

[twoopsie]

I park on by a foot. The road is narrow and I always leave enough room for a wheelchair. Sometimes people fold my mirror in. Its a bit annoying but give and take I guess.

[Pipbin]

Interesting read WeeFree.
Even though, just because something is legal it doesn't mean you can do it with impunity.

[70isaLimitNotaTarget]

Our local council painted some pavements with 'bays' half on the pavement, one was too small for a hatchback car the house holder got ticketed.
Only a Smartcar would've fitted on.

[InSpaceNooneCanHearYouScream]

Once, in the winter, I was driving slowly (icy road) and a way in front of me I saw a woman push her buggy out in the icy road to get round a frigging little van that was completely blocking the pavement. As I drew level I saw the asshole sitting inside on his phone so I stopped along side him and stared at him. He tried to ignore me, but I gestured at him to roll his window down, which he did. I then asked if he realised a mother was walking with her baby in the road thanks to him. I was polite. Instead of apologising he was just rude, which goes to show what inconsiderate pigs these drivers are. YANBU

[sheldonesque]

We have the same round ours. It drives me bananas.

I'm that fed up that I don't make a special effort to inch carefully past them any more. I don't care if my shopping bag full of soup tins bumps them or studded handbag brushes against them. I don't do it on purpose but I don't torture myself if I scrape against their car either.

They aren't supposed to be there and if they leave about 10" of pavement for me to squeeze past that is their fault.

I also confess to occasionally giving the same cars a hefty bump with my considerably heftier arse in attempt to activate their alarms when I finish my shift at two in the morning

[26Point2Miles]

Anyone know what the raised bobbly circles are called? We have some near my house on a dropped curb, both sides of the road

Neighbour parks over them repeatedly. I'm currently doing diary sheets to get it reported but don't know what these are called or for

[26Point2Miles]

two enough room for a wheelchair? That's good of you... What about a double, side by side buggy then? And the wheelchair users two arms they use at the sides to move their chair? Any consideration for those???

[hmc]

Eve - I'm not going to big up your act of criminal damage. That makes you as bad if not worse than the pavement parkers. Appalling.

[manicinsomniac]

I'll be that person wanttosqueezeyou

In the residential streets in my village the pavements are for parking on and the roads for walking on. You have to park right up on the pavement pressing into the hedges otherwise even a normal sized car can't get past on the road. There are no driveways and the only other road is the main road through the village which obviously can't be parked on. There are 7 or 8 roads in the village, all the same, most of them cul de sacs or interlinked with each other. The next villages are more than 2 miles away in either direction.

Surely you wouldn't suggest that people park more than 2 miles away from their houses. Especially when those two miles would be largely unlit country road.

Oh and not driving isn't an option either because there's only one bus a day in either direction and nothing at all in the evenings.

Suggestions on solving that one??

[26Point2Miles]

All park on one side only? You don't want possible solutions though do you....

[manicinsomniac]

Given that the houses are on both sides of the streets and everybody on the streets owns a car where would the other 1/3-1/2 of the cars park?

I don't mind possible solutions. I don't see the need to change what we do as I've lived in the village for 8 years and never heard of a problem but I am interested to see if there would be a way round it if we did need to change. For example, I don't know if there'd be a problem if a wheelchair user moved into the village. Probably not as the residential roads are so quiet and the kerbs (curbs?) are all dropped but if there was a complaint it would need to be talked about at least.

[InSpaceNooneCanHearYouScream]

Well, that's nice, manic. Must be lovely for the children,disabled and old people in your village trying to get around without being run over. And you sound like you're DEFENDING this??

[WhereYouLeftIt]

26, is this what you mean by 'raised bobbly circles'?

[manicinsomniac]

Oh for goodness sake inspace - nobody is at any risk of being run over. The main road has pavements and no parking allowed and there are approximately 10 cars an hour up and down the other roads. The roads are more like dirt tracks than roads in most places and everybody knows they get used as pavements.

It's a village that has been unchanged since long long before the invention of the car - they do exist!

Yes, I'm defending it. If it's a system that works for those of us that live here then why on earth would I not defend it?

As I said, if something changed such as a wheelchair user moving into the village ad they were having a problem then a solution would need to be looked for (though as the kerbs are dropped it probably wouldn't cause a problem anyway). But what that solution would be I can't imagine. Build over a field to make a carpark maybe.

[hmc]

I think manic that some posters who live in the burbs simply can't picture your village or comprehend that whilst for the main part parking on pavements is inconsiderate, it isn't always in every circumstance. There is no grey area on Mn!