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)

[XmasEveDallas]

Add message | Report | Message poster hmc Sat 13-Dec-14 23:52:08
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

What criminal damage HMC? There may have been accidental damage, caused when trying to squeeze past cars that had left about 12 inches of space for villagers to walk when they parked on the kerb. But sadly (for the owners) that could not be helped

[Wilf83]

I could be wrong but doesn't the council have a responsibility to keep the pathways free of obstructions? Why not give them a ring or contact your local paper to see if they are interested.

[AliMonkey]

Legally whilst you can park on a pavement if you are not in London and not causing an obstruction, it IS illegal to drive on a pavement. So unless you are hoisting your cars into place using a crane then you must be breaking the law to get there. So don't do it!

If you are going to put signs on cars (which I support if they are polite like those of OP) then be careful you can't be accused of criminal damage if you left sticky mark or lifted up wipers (potential to bend them or be accused of doing so).

[InSpaceNooneCanHearYouScream]

Erm.... hmc I used to LIVE in a tiny village, if that helps, and range rovers parked all over the pavements used to fuck me right off.

[26Point2Miles]

whereyouleftit yes! Yes that's it! Blister surface..... Wow my neighbours really are being arrogant parking over it. Think I'll be in touch with the council as well.... Thanks for posting that!

[FriedFishAndBread]

I don't drive so I don't park on pavements.

But I know the bus drivers hate people parking on the roads as it causes congestion on a few of the narrow roads on the bus route. Bus has been late all this week because of the cars.

Also the school where I work quite a few staff park on the pavement to make sure fire engines can get down the narrow road.

So yes walking round a car isn't a huge inconvenience compared to helping a fire engine or ambulance.

How about we just get rid of cars, save the planet get an excellent public transport system and no one can complain anymore?

[lunar1]

Walking round cars into the road is a huge deal with a wheelchair especially when bastards also park over the dropped curb.

I don't want the road blocked for emergency cars either so ideally cars causing a problem should be towed at the owners expense.

[ThePinkOcelot]

When I go to visit my mum, I have to park on the pavement on one side of the street if all of the spaces on the other side are taken. If both sides parked all on the road another car wouldn't get down the middle never mind an emergency vehicle. All of the neighboring streets are the same. So, no there's nowhere else to park.

[lunar1]

Where do pedestrians go when you do this pink? Can they get past?

[kal452]

Ok so i understand the issue of cars parking on pavements. I would agree it is wrong for them to park their entire car, thus blocking for pedestrians.

The issue unfortunately is the UK is OLD and town/housing developments clearly shortsighted when it comes to vehicle parking. There are roads like my own that if all the cars were to park on the roadside and not partially on the pavement, then it would block the road and none but a cyclist could get through. That is a massive obstruction and I’m sure you would be the first to complain when the emergency services cannot get to your house, because in order to please your petty annoyances, all cars have park on the road. Your house might be burnt down a loved one dead because they couldn’t get through. OR everyone could continue to part semi on the pavement and pedestrians use the common sense - I’m probably be being unreasonable to assume pedestrians have common sense!!

[InSpaceNooneCanHearYouScream]

But the pavement should NEVER be an option for parking. It's not for cars. If a road isn't suitable for parking then park further away! It's like saying ' I had no choice but to park in your front garden- there was nowhere else'

[lunar1]

So now trying to get around in a wheelchair is a petty annoyance! Park further away and stop being lazy and selfish.

[XmasEveDallas]

I not convinced that a wheelchair user or child being knocked over and hurt/killed by car can be considered a 'petty annoyance'

Because that is quite likely.

I would much rather an inanimate object made of steel was damaged than a human being. I am led to believe that the fire service is entitled to move cars causing an obstruction to get to a fire - even if that means 'shunting' another vehicle.

In my sisters Cotswold village there is little to no parking. All residents have 'passes' in their cars that give their house details. If cars need to be moved, the owners can be contacted. So there are options for areas like that, safer options than pedestrians having to walk into dangerous roads.

[ThePinkOcelot]

Ah yes lunar, I do leave room. I was a buggy user at one time.

[Pipbin]

I grew up in a small village where we didn't even have pavements!

Anyway, as stated above many houses in the uk were built long before the invention of the car. Therefore they often have no parking. Am I the only person who wouldn't buy or rent a house if there was nowhere I could park without blocking the pavement?

[LuisSuarezTeeth]

It's not about inconvenience, it's about safety.

[LuisSuarezTeeth]

kal Surely it would be common sense to park elsewhere if your car would be either obstructing the pavement or obstructing the road?

[lambsie]

Yanbu. I always try to squeeze ds's sn buggy through if it looks possible. Sometimes he bangs on or kicks the car as we go past but if people don't like that they should park on the road.

[lunar1]

Lambsie, if the space is small always scrape the buggy along the car rather than the wall as the car will cause less damage to your buggy. How often do you get funding towards a buggy? We got money towards a chair every 2 years I think but it didn't even cover half the cost!

[lambsie]

Lunar1, we were given his buggy when he was 4, 4 years ago. He is now waiting for a wheelchair which will hopefully arrive before his buggy falls apart. He has an all terrain buggy we bought ourselves but that is too bulky for town walking.

[LuisSuarezTeeth]

I shall be out today making myself very unpopular

[lunar1]

Bloody hell, I thought you would get them more often with having a growing child!

[vienna1981]

Cindydog. I like the idea of sticking an A4 size note to the windscreen but a note of caution. The chemicals in superglue can crack glass so, rightly or wrongly, whoever leaves the note could end up getting their collar felt for criminal damage or at least a bill for a new windscreen. Providing the perpetrator can be found, of course.

[WeeFreeKings]

I think in general there is a mismatch between the 'rights' of the pedestrian/wheelchair user/pushchair pusher to use the pavement to keep away from the traffic and the 'rights' of the car driver to use the pavement to park on when there isn't space on the road. I can well imagine there are situations where car drivers can justify to themselves that parking on the pavement is OK. But if I parked somewhere and as a result someone walking or wheeling on the pavement had to go onto the road (however busy that road may or may not be at the exact time they're on it) I would personally feel guilty. Pavements are intended to keep pedestrians of all types away, and therefore safe, from traffic. If they are blocked by cars who park blocking them or they would block the road I would say why is it more important to you that you don't block a car but care less about blocking a wheelchair user? Yes emergency vehicles need access down a road but if you are that concerned about not blocking a road perhaps you should park somewhere else? Then there's the argument 'I'd have to park miles away in that case'. Yep. So park miles away then. Why is you not being inconvenienced about how far you have to walk more important than keeping pedestrians safe? Then there's the argument 'they can walk in the road' and it becomes a cyclical argument that if pedestrians were safe walking on the road we wouldn't have pavements. So in short, when you choose to park on the pavement, blocking it for a pedestrian, wheelchair user or pushchair pusher you are deciding your needs are more important than theirs. I'm sure many people are living with that conclusion everyday. I personally couldn't.