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)

[Murphy29]

Thankfully everyone in our area understands that one half of the street has to park on pavement (no driveways and road very narrow) or else we'd need to park in a different town 2 miles away.

I manage to cross road, or walk on road if it's wheelie bin day, with my pram and dog without feeling the need to scratch cars and the neighbours do too. I have honestly never heard of this being such an issue IRL.

[XmasEveDallas]

Well obviously it depends where you live Murphy. If I were to walk into the road I'd be walking up a hill with a blind corner and blind brow, or down a hill with two blind corners leading onto a 60 MPH road. The 30 MPH road is used as a rat run by cars trying to escape traffic and lorries trying to escape the weighing station. It is also regularly driven by the trucks to a local vegetable distribution centre at the top of the village and by the farmers in giant tractors at the bottom of the village.

It so doesn't help that all the houses along that stretch have holly hedges because they aren't allowed walls. That stuff HURTS.

[LuisSuarezTeeth]

Friar a motorist, unless a BB holder, has a choice about where to park. A wheelchair user or mobility scooter user does not have the same choices about which pavement to use.

[thatwouldbeanecumenicalmatter]

Grrr I hate this!

A dad of a DC in my DS class at school does this - parks his whole 4x4 on a wide pavement outside of school/adjoining school/junction obviously limiting visibility when crossing the road next to his car. If he doesn't do this his other special parking place is to park on a corner, meaning if you need the dropped curb you're stuffed.

Does he look when he reverses - does he hell! I caught him on more than one occasion nearly knocking over parents/children when reversing and acting like it's a total surprise that there's children outside of a school at the end of a school day. Prick. I can't stand his entitledness and yes I have complained to him (and the school before)...funnily enough he blanks me when he see's me as if I'M in the wrong. Arsehole.

Thankfully his DC are nice (must take after their mother)

[LuisSuarezTeeth]

Murphy it does happen in RL- mine

[Varya]

This selfish habit and pavements too narrow for the pushchair annoy me!
Pavements too narrow for two adults to pass each other safely also infuriate me. Merry Christmas.

[LuisSuarezTeeth]

I think it boils down to this:

My convenience trumps your safety.

[hmc]

I'm with Mick

[Whippet81]

YANBU there is someone in our road who completely blocks the corner with his van totally over the pavement and touching his drive so when I take the dog a walk at 6am I stamp across their gravel drive as loudly as possible and let the dog piss up his wheels

Its complete inconsiderate to make people have to go onto the road especially if they are using a wheelchair or have a pushchair etc.

[LuisSuarezTeeth]

That's nice hmc

[DejaVuAllOverAgain]

Some people obviously think that their precious cars are more important than the lives of human beings.

[Nicola19]

At our school (think terraced streets) there is a habit of parking on the pavement at 45 degrees, with one tyre on the path at that angle, just so they can get in a tiny space.

[cuppateaandtoast]

This winds me up so much! Workman with van parked on pavement and workbench out such that impossible to get past. Its almost ok for me to cross to other side with dc. But if ds had been walking to school himself he would have not been very safe. I would tell him to walk on same side all the way to school then cross with lollypop lady. But he would have been forced to cross on his own. I said to workman "hey we can t get past" he said "sorry if i park on the road it causes a bigger obstruction" grrrr not my problem he should be on road!! I but my tongue in front of dc but was not impressed.

[LuisSuarezTeeth]

Ah mick is a new GF. I'm prepared to talk glitter if necessary

[jackfrosticle]

This drives me mad too!

Another thing people do near us - there is a parade of shops and in the middle of them there's a road going through to more shops at the back. There are double yellow lines all down the through road because it is really dangerous to cross when you can't see round cars to see if anything is coming.

It doesn't stop delivery drivers parking on the double yellows and then sitting in the vans so you are trying to safely get DCs across the road without any way of being able to see if a car is coming. Oh, but that's ok because the drivers are sitting in the vans watching you struggle. Grr.

[LuisSuarezTeeth]

thatwould you want some of my notes?

[cuppateaandtoast]

Its so bloody inconsiderate. Someone in my street seems to think the pavement outside his house is actually his driveway. He parks right on top the pavement every night.

[littleducks]

Snatchoo- I do know that area!

We live in outer London. It is illegal unless there are bays and signs directing otherwise. The majority of roads aren't any wider. You get used to driving down double parked streets (I drive a big 6 seater and manage just fine) and having to give way so that traffic can flow in both directions.

When I visit people in towns outside London I do notice the parking on pavement thing.

[LuisSuarezTeeth]

cuppa that's what I think the lady meant when she said "it's my path".

As in, it's outside her house, so she owns it!

[ZombieApocalypse]

There is parking on the pavement where I live. It's not illegal. No-one completely blocks the pavement and there's always enough space to get a pushchair or wheelchair though so I don't see a problem.

I don't care if someone knocks my car accidentally on purpose as they go past. I bought it because I knew it would be parked on the road and it had a lot of dents in already. But I think deliberately accidentally damaging someone's car because you disapprove of their parking arrangements is not on.

[LuisSuarezTeeth]

If it's not blocked then there isn't a problem Zombie

[cuppateaandtoast]

Yes i dont mind that much if i can get past cos its just partially blocked. Its when pavement is fully blocked and you have no choice but to take dc onto road. Its difficult to get clear vision to go around a van which is parked on pavement.

[Esmum07]

My mum lives in sheltered housing. Many of the residents use trolleys as mini walking frames to keep them steady when they go out to the shops. The road is a dead end with the sheltered housing at that dead end. It is also narrow. Fine if you park on just one side of the road but there has been occasions when people have parked on the other side exactly opposite cars that are already parked and it takes the road down to such a small gap that only a normal size car can get through - just.

It quite clearly says that the building at the end of the road is sheltered housing and the day centre bus picks up every day so residents know elderly people live there but they still allowed their visitors to park on the other side of the road. Until a lady had a heart attack last summer...and the ambulance couldn't get down the road to the sheltered housing because two cars had parked opposite each other blocking the road to anything bigger than a saloon type car. Two men from the scheme plus the a
Warden from the flats literally ran from house to house trying to track down one of the car drivers to get them to move whilst the paramedics got the lady stable enough as they thought they may have had to wheel her down the road to the ambulance - across kerbs and potholes. Luckily they found one of the drivers and she sheepishly moved her bloody car. She was visiting her mum and didn't think it would cause any harm...

Now, of course, all the visitors park up on the pavement so the elderly have to manoeuvre their trolleys down a kerb, around the cars (on a blind corner) and back up again. Bad enough when you're eighty with a dodgy hip or whatever with an empty trolley but try doing it when you have a few groceries in it. I have with my mum and believe me it made my back hurt, plus my mum and her friends can't just run to the pavement if a car come round the corner fast, not expecting them to be walking in the road.

One man in the area has started a name and shame website - he takes photos of the cars parked inconsiderately and posts them on line. Every now and then the local paper print a few and it's amazing how the road seems to suddenly have one side parking and no pavement parking. If they can do it when they are shamed into it they can do it 365 days of the year in my opinion. God help the inconsiderate parker if one if these elderly folk get hurt because they were forced into the road because I would certainly go for them through the court if it were my parent.

[thatwouldbeanecumenicalmatter]

Thanks Luis

You'll be pleased to know he got ticketed the last time he parked on a corner over the dropped curb.

[thatwouldbeanecumenicalmatter]

Esmum That's awful, the poor lady!

Well done to the man who started the name and shame website though!